Erminie Wheeler-Voeglin Book Award

Call for Papers / Submissions 2008

The American Society of Ethnohistory has named its 2008 committee for the Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize for the best book-length work in the field of ethnohistory published in 2007 (copyright 2007). Books are submitted by the publishers or authors directly to the Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize committee. Please send a copy to each of the committee members (mailing addresses are below). Deadline for delivery of all submissions to Committee members is June 15, 2008.

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2008 Wheeler-Voegelin Prize Comittee

Chair, Kathleen Bragdon
Department of Anthropology
Box 8795
College of William & Mary
Williamsburg, VA
23185-8795
Phone: 757-221-1067
Email: bkbrag@wm.edu

Kris Lane
Department of History
326 Blair Hall
College of William & Mary
Williamsburg, VA
23187-8795
Phone: 757-221-1445

Nancy Shoemaker
History Department, U-2103
241 Glenbrook Road
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT
06269
Phone: 860-486-5926
E-mail: nancy.shoemaker@uconn.edu

About Erminie Wheeler-Voeglin

Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin (1903-1988) founded the American Society for Ethnohistory in 1954. After beginning graduate work in anthropology at the University of California, and working in the field for many years, she became the first woman to receive a doctoral degree (1939) in anthropology from Yale. She conducted fieldwork in a wide variety of North American locations, taught at Indiana University, served as editor on various journals, and was published widely in the areas of anthropology, folklore, and ethnohistory. She is best known for her work as director of the Great Lakes-Ohio Valley Research Project at Indiana University from 1956 to 1969.

Previous Winners of the Award

Year	Recipient	Book	Committee
2007	Ned Blackhawk	Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006).	Susan Sleeper-Smith (Chair), Larry Nesper, Kevin Terraciano
2006	Steven W. Hackell	Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769-1850. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005)	Cynthia Radding (chair), Brenda Farnell, Margaret Connel-Szasz
2005	Frank Salomon	The Cord Keepers: Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village. (Duke University Press, 2004)	Catherine Julien (chair), Robbie Ethridge, David Dinwoodie
2004	Laura A. Lewis	Hall of Mirrors: Power, Witchcraft, and Caste in Colonial Mexico (Duke University Press, 2003).	Clara Sue Kidwell (chair), David Reed Miller, and Stephen Warren
2003	James F. Brooks	Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship and Community in the Southwest Borderlands. (University of North Carolina Press, 2002).	Regna Darnell (Chair), Martha Kaplan, and John Chuchiak IV
2002	Kevin Terraciano	The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca: Nudzahui History, Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. (Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 2001).	Loretta Fowler (Chair), Stuart Schwartz, and Claudio Saunt
2001	Catherine Julien	*Reading Inca History.* Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.	Gregory Dowd (Chair), Roger Nichols, and Thomas Abercrombie.
2000	Claudio Saunt	*A New Order of Things: Property, Power and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.	Karen Blu (Chair), Brenda Child, and Karen Spaulding.
1999	Thomas Alan Abercrombie	Pathways of Memory and Power: Ethnography and History Among an Andean People. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.	Michael Harkin, chair; Jennifer S.H. Brown, Robert Haskett, and Stephanie Wood.
1998	Cynthia Radding	*Wandering Peoples: Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces, and Ecological Frontiers in Northwestern Mexico, 1700-1850*.Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997.	Willard Rollings, chair; William O. Autry, and Daniel Richter
1997	Kathleen J. Bragdon	*Native People of Southern New England, 1500-1650*. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996.	Frederic W. Gleach, chair; Susan Deeds, and Willard Rollings
1996	Patricia Galloway	*Choctaw Genesis 1500-1700*. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995.	Kevin Gosner, chair; Frederic W. Gleach, and Rayna D. Green
1995	Frank James Tester and Peter Kulchyski	*Tammarniit (Mistakes): Inuit Relocation in the Eastern Arctic, 1939-1963*. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1994.	Daniel Boxberger, chair; Jean O’Brien, and Kevin Gosner
1994	Matthew Dennis	*Cultivating a Landscape of Peace: Iroquois-European Encounters in Seventeenth-Century America*. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993.	Michael D. Green, chair; Kathleen J. Bragdon, and Robert M. Hill II
1993	James Lockhart	*The Nahuas After the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries*. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992.	Kathleen J. Bragdon, chair; Michael D. Green, and Jennifer S.H. Brown
1992	Morris W. Foster	*Being Commanche: A Social History of an American Indian Community*. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1991.	Kathleen J. Bragdon, chair; Garrick A. Bailey, and Daniel Usner
1991	Frans J. Schryer	*Ethnicity and Class Conflict in Rural Mexico*. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.	John E. Kicza, chair; James Merrill, and Patricia MacCormack
1990	Susan D. Gillespie	*Aztec Kings: The Construction of Rulership in Mexica History*. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1989.	John E. Kicza, chair; Toby Morantz, and Sergei Kan
1989	David Hanlon	*Upon a Stone Altar: A History of the Island of Pohnpei to 1890*. Pacific Islands Monograph, No. 5. Honolulu: Center for Pacific Island Studies and University of Hawaii Press, 1988.	Neal Salisbury, chair; Jay Miller, and John E. Kicza
1988	Helen Hornbeck Tanner	*Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History*. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987.	Ross Hassig, chair; Frederick E. Hoxie, and Peter A. Thomas
1987	William G. McLoughlin	*Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic*. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.	Peter Iverson, chair; Frederick E. Hoxie, and Kathleen J. Bragdon
1986	James Axtell	*The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial America*. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.	Elizabeth J. Glenn, chair; Peter Iverson, Juan Villamarin, and Judy Villamarin
1985	Nancy M. Farriss	*Maya Society Under Colonial Rule: The Collective Enterprise of Survival*. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.	Elizabeth J. Glenn, chair; Peter Iverson, and Grant Jones
1984	Richard White	*The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment and Social Change Among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos*. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983.	William T. Hagan, chair; Elizabeth J. Glenn, and Janet B. Esser
1983	Joan Vincent	*Teso in Transformation: The Political Economy of the Peasant and Class in Eastern Africa*. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.	Mary Helms, chair; William T. Hagan, and Raymond J. DeMallie
1982	Loretta Fowler	*Arapahoe Politics, 1851-1978: Symbols in Crises of Authority*. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1981.	Dean R. Snow, chair; Mary Helms, and William R. Swagerty