The Early Modern Commons

Congratulations to Ofelia Rey Castelao, who has won the 2022 Premio Nacional de Historia de España for her book, El vuelo corto. Mujeres y migraciones en el Edad Moderna (USC Editora Academica, 2021).

From the University of Chicago: Mercedes García-Arenal, one of Europe’s most eminent historians and a leading scholar of religion in post-Franco democratic Spain, will receive the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters.  She has studied...

Congratulations to S. Elizabeth Penry, who won the ASPHS First Book Prize for 2022 for The People Are King: The Making of Indigenous Andean Politics (Oxford, 2019)! Congratulations also to Claire Gilbert, who earned honorable mention for In Good Faith:...

Congratulaitons to Adrian M. Masters, whose “Influential Women, New World Riches, and Masculine Anxieties in the Development of the Spanish Council of the Indies, 1524-98,” Renaisance Quarterly 74/1 (2021) earned honorable mention for William Nelson...

Ibero-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (IASECS)  ESSAY PRIZE The Pilar Sáenz Annual Student Essay Prize is awarded to the best essay dealing with eighteenth-century Spain, Portugal or Ibero-America. The prize is open to graduate...

The Society for Iberian Global Art has awarded honorable mention to Noelia García Pérez, The Making of Juana of Austria (Louisiana State) and Laura Fernández-González, Philip II of Spain and the Architecture of Empire (Penn State) – congratulations...

Congratulations to Patrick J. O’Banion! His Deza and Its Moriscos: Religion and Community in Early Modern Spain (Nebraska, 2020) received honorable mention for the SCSC’s Bainton Prize.

Congratulations to Antonio José Díaz Rodríguez, who has won the Premio Nacional de Historia for El mercado curial. Bulas y negocios enter Roma y el mundo ibérico en la Edad Moderna (Cátedra Simón Ruiz, 2020).

Congratulations to Allison Margaret Bigelow! She has been awarded the James A. Rawley Prize for Mining Languge: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knolwedge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World (UNC-Omohundro, 2020). This is the first...

Renaissance and Reformation awarded the 2020 Natalie Zemon Davis Prize for the best article to appear in its journal to Karoline P. Cook, “Claiming Nobility in the Monarquía Hispánica: The Search for Status by Inca, Aztec, and Nasrid Descendants at...

Congratulations to Laurinda Abreu for winning the ASPHS’s 2021 A.H. Oliveira Marques Prize for the best article on Portuguese history published in the past two years: “Health Care and the Spread of Medical Knowledge in the Portuguese Empire, Particularly...

The American Association for the History of Medicine has awarded the William H. Welch Medal (for the a book of oustanding scholarly merit in medical history published in the past five years) to Benjamin Breen for The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the...

Congratulations to Erin Kathleen Rowe, winner of the 2020 Bainton Prize from the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference, for Black Saints in Early Modern Catholicism (CUP, 2019).

Congratulaitons to Darlene Abreu-Ferreira for winning ASPHS’s 2019 A.H. de Oliveira-Marques Prize for “Women and the Acquisition, Transmission, and Execution of Public Offices in Early Modern Portugal,” Gender and History 31/2 (2019):...

Hugh Cagle, Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal’s Empire, 1450-1700 (Cambridge, 2018). And congratulations for winning the AHA’s Leo Gershoy Award for 2019!  

I have heard that in Barcelona the Best First Book Prize went to Daniel Hershenzon for The Captive Sea: Slavery, Communication, and Commerce in Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean (Penn, 2018). And the Best First Article Prize went to Andrew W. Devereux...

I am getting to this belatedly, but: congratulations to Max Deardorff and Fabien Montcher! Deardorff won the Best Early Career Article Prize for “The Ties That Bind: Intermarriage between Moriscos and Old Christians in Early Modern Spain, 1526-1614″...

The Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies solicits submissions for the annual Charles Julian Bishko Memorial Prize for the best article published in 2017 or 2018 in the field of medieval Iberian history by a North American scholar....

ASPHS has two prize submissions due on Nov 21: the Best First Book Prize in Iberian History and the A.H. de Oliveira Marques Prize: The Best First Book Prize in Iberian History The committee for the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies’s...

Congratulations to Matthew Goldmark for winning the LASA Colonial Section’s committee for Best Journal Article by a Junior Scholar, for “Reading Habits: Catalina de Erauso and the Subjects of Early Modern Spanish Gender and Sexuality,”...