PABLO
MITCHELL named Emerging Scholar of
the Year for 2008 from Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
magazine. http://www.oberlin.edu/news-info/08jan/pablomitchell.html
Awarded the 2007 Ray Allen Billington Prize by the
Organization of American Historians for his book Coyote Nation
The Ray
Allen Billington Prize is given biennially by the Organization
of American Historians for the best book in American frontier history,
defined broadly so as to include the pioneer periods of all geographical
areas and comparisons between American frontiers and others. First
given in 1981, this prize honors Ray Allen Billington, OAH President
1962-1963.
Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico,
1880-1920

PAWAN DHINGRA's article, "Being American Between
Black and White: Second Generation Asian American Professionals’
Racial Identities," won Best
Research Paper from the American Sociological Association section
on Asia and Asian America, 2007. It was published in the Journal
of Asian American Studies, v.6, 2:117-147, 2003 (actual publication
date, 2004).
Pawan
Dhingra's book, Managing Multicultural Lives: Asian American
Professionals and the Challenge of Multiple Identities, was
published in March, 2007 (Stanford University Press).
GINA
PÉREZ wins
SANA book award
for The Near Northwest Side Story: Migration, Displacement,
and Puerto Rican Families.
The Delmos Jones and Jagna Sharff Memorial Prize for the Critical
Study of North America is awarded for books that "deal with
an important social issue to the discipline of anthropology, that
has broader implications for social
change or justice, and is accessible beyond the discipline of anthropology."
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