AWARDS AT THE 2006 ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEETINGS

The following prizes were awarded at the sixty-sixth annual meeting of the Economic History Association, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15–17 September 2006.

The Arthur H. Cole Prize for the outstanding article published in this Journal in the September 2005 through June 2006 issue to Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff for “The Evolution of Suffrage Institutions in the New World,” which appeared in the December 2005 issue. The winner is selected by the editorial board.

The Columbia University Prize in American Economic History in honor of Allan Nevins for the outstanding dissertation in U.S. or Canadian economic history during 2005/06 to Leah Platt Boustan of Harvard University for “The Effect of Black Migration on Northern Cities and Labor Markets, 1940–1970,” completed under the supervision of Claudia Goldin.

The Alexander Gerschenkron Prize for the outstanding dissertation in non–U.S. or Canadian economic history during 2005/06 to Ran Abramitsky of Northwestern University for “The Limits of Equality: An Economics Analysis of the Israeli Kibbutz,” completed under the supervision of Joel Mokyr.

The Alice Hanson Jones Prize for an outstanding book on North American Economic History published in 2004–2005 was awarded jointly to B. Zorina Khan, for The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development, 1790–1920(Cambridge University Press, 2005); and Werner Troesken, for Water, Race, and Disease (The MIT Press, 2004).

The Jonathan R. T. Hughes Prize for excellence in teaching economic history to Kerry Odell of Scripps College. The winner is selected by the EHA Committee on Education and Teaching.

Also announced at the meeting was the prize for the best article appearing in Explorations in Economic History in the past year, which was awarded jointly to Dan Bogart of University of California, Irvine for “Turnpike Trusts and the Transportation Revolution in 18th Century England” [Explorations in Economic History, 42 (October 2005): 479–508]; and Mauricio Drelichman of University of British Columbia for “The Curse of Moctezuma: American Silver and the Dutch Disease” [Explorations in Economic History, 42 (July 2005): 349–80].

EHA GRANT AND FELLOWSHIP AWARDS

The Committee on Research in Economic History (CREH) of the Economic History Association is charged with administering the association's project of assisting young scholars as a way of strengthening the discipline of economic history. The CREH made three types of awards for 2006: Cole Grants to recent Ph.D.s; fellowships to graduate students writing their dissertations; and travel/data grants to graduate students in the early stages of research.

PEAES FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

The Program in Early American Economy and Society at the Library Company of Philadelphia invites fellowship applications in three different categories:

A dissertation-level fellowship carries a stipend for resident research of $18,000 for the full year (1 September 2007–31 May 2008) or two half-year fellowships of $9,000 each (1 September 2007–15 January 2008 or 15 January 2008–31 May 2008). The deadline for receipt of dissertation-level fellowship applications is 1 March 2007, with a decision to be made by 31 March.

Short-term fellowships carry a stipend of $1,800 for a month of resident research during any month from June 2007 through May 2008, and are open to scholars at any level. The deadline for receipt of one-month fellowship applications is 1 March 2007, with a decision to be made by 31 March.

In addition, PEAES awards long-term postdoctoral fellowships for 1 September 2007–31 May 2008, which carry a stipend of $40,000 for a full year of research in the collections of the Philadelphia region, or $20,000 for a half-year fellowship during the term 1 September 2007–15 January 2008 or 15 January–31 May 2008. The deadline to apply for long-term postdoctoral fellowships was 1 November 2006.

These fellowships are designed to promote scholarship on the origins and development of the early American economy, broadly conceived, to roughly 1850. They provide scholars the opportunity to use the extensive printed and manuscript collections related to the history of commerce, finance, technology, manufacturing, agriculture, internal improvements, economic policy-making, and other topics that are held by the Library Company and numerous other institutions in its vicinity.

To learn more about the fellowships, and requirements for applying, please visit the PEAES website at www.librarycompany.org or contact Cathy Matson, Program Director, at cmatson@udel.edu.

THE 2007 ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEETINGS “Space and Place in Economic History”

Paul Hohenberg, 2006/07 EHA President, announced that the sixty-seventh annual meeting of the Economic History Association will be held in Austin, Texas, 6–9 September 2007, at the Austin Marriot at the Capitol.

The Program Committee—Susan Carter and Anne McCants (Co-Chairs), Metin Coşgel, and Peter Rousseau—welcomes proposals for individual papers, as well as for entire sessions. Papers should in all cases be work in progress rather than accepted or published work. Submitters have the responsibility to let the program committee know if the proposed paper has been submitted for publication. Submissions for entire sessions should include no more than three papers and each proposal should be submitted separately. The committee reserves the right to determine which papers will be included in those sessions that are accepted. As is the rule, papers on all subjects in economic history are welcome, but a number of sessions will be devoted to the theme of “Space and Place in Economic History” chosen by President Paul Hohenberg.

Economists have largely neglected space or tried to reduce it to distance interpreted as transport cost. Historians, more attuned to place, defined as space with meaning, nonetheless focus on politically defined social units evolving and interacting over time. Yet spatial structure and organization contribute–positively or negatively—to both the quality of life and the efficiency of economic activity. Economic agents interact not only through market exchange but through propinquity or connection (networks, spillovers, agglomeration …).

The Program Committee invites papers and sessions on location and land use, spatial networks, geographic influences on economic development, settlement patters and urban systems, diffusion, and generally with flows of people, goods, capitals, ideas, and techniques. Models such as those of the New Economic Geography and GIS techniques are encouraged. All papers must be submitted online at http://www.eh.net/EHA/Meetings/prop_07.html. Interested scholars are requested to submit online a three to five page abstract and a 150-word abstract (suitable for publication in this Journal). The due date is 31 January 2007.

The local arrangements will be handled by a committee consisting of Sally Clarke, John McCusker, and Tom Wiseman, along with an Honorary Committee of Dr. Elspeth Rostow (Honorary Chair), Professor Betty Sue Flowers (Director of the Lyndon Johnson Presidential Library and Museum), and Professor James Galbraith (LBJ School of Public Affairs).

The dissertation session, convened by Joyce Burnette (Wabash College) and Carolyn Moehling (Rutgers), will honor the top six dissertations in economic history completed during the 2006/07 academic year. One copy of dissertations on American or Canadian topics should be mailed to Department of Economics, Rutgers University, 75 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA. One copy of dissertations on topics in other regions should be mailed to Joyce Burnette, Department of Economics, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana 47933, USA. Dissertations must be postmarked no later than 31 May 2007. The Nevins and Gerschenkron Prizes will be awarded to the best dissertation in and outside the United States and Canada.

Graduate students are encouraged to attend the meetings. A poster session, travel and hotel subsidies, and registration and meal discounts are all offered.

For further information, check www.ehameeting.com or contact Meetings Coordinator Carolyn Tuttle at tuttleeha@lfc.edu.