Past Prize Winners

Best Early Career Article:
Gabriel de Aviles Rocha, Vasco da Gama Assistant Professor in History at Brown University, for “The Pinzones and the coup of the acedares: fishing and colonization in the fifteenth-century Atlantic.” Colonial Latin American Review 28:4 (2019), 427-449.

A.H. de Oliveira Marques Prize: 
Laurinda Abreu, “Health care and the spread of medical knowledge in the Portuguese empire, particularly the Estado da India (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries),” Medical History 64:4 (2020): 449-446.
 
Bishko Memorial Prize (joint winners):
Jessica Boon, “The Body-and-Soul in Pain: Medico-Theological Debates in Late Medieval Castilian Passion Treatises.” Viator 50.1 (2019): 249-87. DOI 10.1484/J.VIATOR.5.121363. (actual publication date Sept 2020)

Dana Wessell Lightfoot & Alexandra Guerson, “A Tale of Two Tolranas: Jewish women’s agency and conversion in late medieval Girona,” Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies​ 12.3 (2020): 344-364.

Best Dissertation:
Mónica García Fernández,“‘Dos en una sola carne’. Matrimonio, amor y sexualidad en el franquismo (1939-1975)” (Universidad de Oviedo, 2019)

A.H. de Oliveira Marques Prize: 
Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, “Women and the Acquisition, Transmission, and Execution of Public Offices in Early Modern Portugal,” Gender & History, vol. 31:2 (July 2019): 383-403.
 
Bishko Memorial Prize: 
Pamela A. Patton, “Demons and Diversity in León,” Medieval Encounters 25, no. 1-2 (2019): 150-179.

Best First Book Award
Daniel Hershenzon’s book, The Captive Sea: Slavery, Communication and Commerce in Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).

A. H. de Oliveira Marques Prize Winner
The 2019 winner was Márcia Gonçalves, “Of peasants and settlers: ideals of Portugueseness, imperial nationalism and European settlement in Africa, c. 1930-c.1945.” European Review of History: Revue européeane d’histoire 25, no 1: 166-186.

Bishko Memorial Prize Winner
The 2019 winner was Andrew Devereux, “Declared Enemies and Pacific Infidels: Spanish Doctrines of ‘Just War’ in the Mediterranean and Atlantic,” Republics of Letters 5, no. 3

Best Early Career Article
A tie between
Max Deardorff, “The Ties That Bind: Intermarriage between Moriscos and Old Christians in Early Modern Spain, 1526-1614,” Journal of Family History 2017, Vol. 42 (3) 250-270,
and
Edward Lawrence Holt, “Cantigas de Santa María, Cantigas de Cruzada: Reflections of Crusading Spirituality in Alfonso X’s Cantigas de Santa María,” Al-Masāq, 27:3, 207-224.

A.H. de Oliveira Marques Prize in Portuguese History
Fabien Montcher,“Politics, Scholarship, and the Iberian Routes of the Republic of Letters: The Late Renaissance Itinerary of Vicente Nogueira (1586–1654),” Erudition and the Republic of Letters 2 (2017) 182-225.

Biskho Prize
Abigail Agresta, “‘Unfortunate Jews’ and Urban Ugliness: Crafting a Narrative of the 1391 Assault on the jueria of Valencia,” Journal of Medieval History, 43, (2017), 320-41.

Best Dissertation
Alejandro Gomez del Moral, “Buying into Change: Consumer Culture and the Department Store in the Transformation(s) of Spain, 1939–1982” (History, Rutgers, 2014 ).  Honorable mention:  Vanesa Rodriguez-Galindo, “Ways of Being Modern in Madrid: Urban Change, Street Life, and Customs in Late Nineteenth-Century Print Culture” (History of Art, UNED, Madrid – Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, 2015)

A.H. de Oliveira Marques Prize in Portuguese History
Hugo Ribeira da Silva, ”Projecting Power: Cathedral Chapters and Public Rituals in Portugal, 1564-1650″, Renaissance Quarterly 69 (2016): 1369-400.

Biskho Prize
Adam Beaver, “Nebuchadnezzar’s Jewish Legions: Sephardic Legends’ Journey from Biblical Polemic to Humanist History” in After Conversion: Iberia and the Emergence of Modernity, ed. Mercedes García Arenal, 21-65. Leiden: Brill, 2016.

Best First Book Thomas Barton, Contested Treasure: Jews and Authority in the Crown of Aragon (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2014); honorable mention: Katrina Olds, Forging the Past: Invented Histories in Counter-Reformation Spain (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015)

A.H. de Oliveira Marques Prize in Portuguese History
Ricardo Roque, “Mimetic Governmentality and the Administration of Colonial Justice in East Timor, ca. 1860-1910,” Comparative Studies in Society and History (2015) 57/1: 67-97.

Biskho Prize
Therese Martin, “Crouching Crossbowmen in Early Twelfth-Century Sculpture: A Nasty, Brutish, and Short(-Lived) Iconography,” Gesta 54:2 (Fall 2015): 143-164.

Best First Article
Belen Vicens, “Swearing by God: Muslim Oath-Taking in Late Medieval and Early Modern Christian Iberia,” published in Medieval Encounters in 2014.

A.H. de Oliveira Marques Prize in Portuguese History
Ana Isabel López-Salazar Codes, “Puderão mais os inquisidores que o rey. Las relaciones entre el Santo Oficio y la Corona en el Portugal de la Restauración (1640-1668)”, Cuadernos de Historia Moderna, vol. 39 (2014).

Bishko Prize
Glaire D. Anderson, “Sign of the Cross: Contexts for the Ivory Cross of San Millán de la Cogolla,” Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies 6:1 (Jan. 2014), 15-41

Best Dissertation
Fernando Vicente Albarrán, Los barrios negros: El Ensanche Sur en la formación del moderno Madrid (1860-1931)

A.H. de Oliveira Marques Prize in Portuguese History
Raphael Costa, “The ‘great façade of nationality’: some considerations on Portuguese tourism and the multiple meanings of Estado Novo Portugal in travel literature,” Journal of Tourism History v.5, n.1 (2013): 50-72.

Bishko Prize
Hussein Fancy, “Theologies of Violence: Recruitment of Muslim Soldiers by the Crown of Aragon,” Past & Present 221:1 (2013), 39-73.

Best First Book
James Matthews, Reluctant Warriors: Republican Popular Army and Nationalist Army Conscripts in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (Oxford University Press, 2012).

A.H. de Oliveira Marques Prize in Portuguese History
Liam Brockey, “Doubting Thomas: The Apostle and the Portuguese Empire in Early Modern Asia,” in Sacred History: Uses of the Christian Past in the Renaissance World, ed. Katherine Van Liere (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).

Bishko Prize
Lucy K. Pick (University of Chicago), “Sacred Queens and Warrior Kings in the Royal Portraits of the Liber Testamentorum of Oviedo,” Viator 42 No. 2 (2011).

Best First Article
Michael J. Crawford, “Noble Status and Royal Duplicity in the Crown of Castile, 1454–1504,” European History Quarterly 41/4 (2011)

A.H. de Oliveira Marques Prize in Portuguese History
José Alberto Rodrigues da Silva Tavim, “Jews in the Diaspora with Sephared in the Mirror: ruptures, relations, and forms of identity: a theme examined through three cases,” Jewish History (2011) 25: 175-205.

Bishko Prize
Thomas W. Barton, Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of San Diego, for his article “Muslims in Christian Countrysides: Reassessing Exaricus Tenures in the Crown of Aragon,” Medieval Encounters 17 (2011): 233-320.

Best Dissertation
Katrina Olds, “The ‘False Chronicles’ in Early Modern Spain: Forgery, Tradition, and the Invention of Texts and Relics (Princeton University, 2009)

A.H. de Oliveira Marques Prize in Portuguese History
Maria Eugenia Mata, “As Small Events May Have Large Long-Run Effects on Business Perspectives (Portugal, 1940s),” Problems And Perspectives In Management, Vol. 8, Issue 3 (June 2010), pp. 17-30.

Bishko Prize
Olivia Remie Constable, “Regulating Religious Noise: The Council of Vienne, the Mosque Call, and Muslim Pilgrimage in the Late Medieval Mediterranean World,” Medieval Encounters 16 (2010): 64-95.

Best First Book (tie)
Marta V. Vicente, Clothing the Spanish Empire: Families and the Calico Trade in the Early Modern Atlantic World. New York: Palgrave Macmillian, 2006.

and

Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert. A Nation Upon the Ocean Sea. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
with honorable mention to Katie Harris. From Muslim to Christian Granada: Inventing a City’s Past in Early Modern Spain. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

A.H. de Oliveira Marques Prize in Portuguese History
Alvaro S. Pereira, “The Opportunity of a Disaster: The Economic Impact of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake,” The Journal of Economic History 69:2 (2009): 466-499.

Bishko Prize
Brian Catlos, “The de Reys (1220-1501): The Evolution of a ‘Middle-Class’ Muslim Family in Christian Aragon” Viator 40 (2009): 197-219.

Best First Article (2006-2008)
Marcy Norton, “Tasting Empire: Chocolate and the European Internalization of Mesoamerican Aesthetics” American Historical Review 111:3 (2006): 660-690.

Bishko Prize
Jessica A. Boon, “The Agony of the Virgin: The Swoons and Crucifixion of Mary in Sixteenth Century Castilian Passion Treatises,” Sixteenth Century Studies 38:1 (2007): 3-26.

A.H. de Oliveira Marques Prize in Portuguese History (tie)
Maria de Lurdes Rosa, “Santa Maria de Oliveira, demónios e reis: o uso de poder sagrado por um santuário medieval,” Boletim de Trabalhos Históricos 2007/08, pp. 135-153.

and

Tiago C.P. dos Reis Miranda, “António Freire de Andrade Encerrabodes (1699-1783): no espelho de Pombal,” Penélope. Número 30-31 (2004), pp. 93-134. [published in 2008]

Best Dissertation in Iberian History (2005-2007)
Gabriel Paquette, “Governance and Reform in the Spanish Atlantic World, c. 1760-1810” (University of Cambridge, 2006)

A.H. de Oliveira Marques Prize in Portuguese History Lorraine White, “Strategic Geography and the Spanish Habsburg Monarchy’s Failure to Recover Portugal, 1640-1668,” The Journal of Military History, 71 (April 2007), 373-409.

Best First Book Award (2004-2006)
Sasha David Pack, Tourism and Dictatorship: Europe’s Peaceful Invasion of Franco’s Spain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)

Bishko Prize
Katherine Elliot van Liere, “The Missionary and the Moorslayer: James the Apostle in Spanish Historiography from Isidore of Seville to Ambrosio de Morales,” Viator 37 (2006): 519-43

Best First Article Award (2003-2005)
Scott Taylor, “Credit, Debt, and Honor in Castile, 1600-1650,”  Journal of Early Modern History 7:1-2 (January 2003): 8-27

Bishko Prize
James D’Emilio, “The Royal Convent of Las Huelgas: Dynastic Politics, Religious Reform and Artistic Change in Medieval Castile”, in Meredith Parsons Lillich, ed., Studies in Cistercian Art and Architecture VI  (Cistercian Nuns and their World) (Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 2005), 191-282

Best Dissertation in Iberian History
Amanda Wunder, “Search for Sanctity in Baroque Seville: The Canonization of San Fernando and the Making of Golden-Age Culture, 1624-1729” (Princeton University, 2002)

Bishko Prize
Richard P. Kinkade, “Beatrice ‘Contesson’ of Savoy (c. 1250-1290): The Mother of Juan Manuel,” in La Corónica 32.3 (2004), 163-226

Best First Book Award
David Coleman, Creating Christian Granada: Society and Religious Culture in an Old-World Frontier City, 1492-1600 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003)

Bishko Prize
John Williams, “Meyer Schapiro in Silos: Pursuing the Iconography of Style,” Art Bulletin 85 (2003), 442-68

Best First Article Award
Gretchen Starr-Lebeau, “The Joyous History of Devotion and Memory of the Grandeur of Spain: The Spanish Virgin of Guadalupe and Religious and Political Memory,” Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte/Archive for Reformation History 93 (2002), pp. 238-262, and Barry Ross Mark, “Kabbalistic Tocinofobia: Américo Castro, Limpieza de Sangre, and the Inner Meaning of Jewish Dietary Laws,” in Fear and Representations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance , ed. Anne Scott and Cynthia Kosso. Turnhout [Belgium]: Brepols, 2002.

Best First Article
A. Katie Harris, “Forging History: the Plomos of Granada in Francisco Bermúdez de Pedraza’s Historia eclesiástica,” Sixteenth Century Journal XXX/4 (1999): 945-966.