The Immigration and Ethnic History Society First Annual Award for Outstanding Disseratation seeks submissions

The Immigration and Ethnic History Society announces its first annual award for an outstanding dissertation in the field of immigration and ethnic history. To be considered, dissertations must focus on some aspect of North American immigration and/or ethnicity, be successfully defended between September 1, 2012 and September 30, 2013. All submissions must be accompanied by a letter of support from the dissertation director. The award carries a cash gift of $1,500. Submissions deadline: November 15th, 2013.

One copy of the dissertation--either electronic or hard copy--should be
sent to each member of the award committee.
Award committee members for 2014 are:

• John Bodnar, Dept. of History, 1026 E. Kirkwood, Indiana
  University, Bloomington, IN 47405.
  bodnar@indiana.edu
  
• David Gutierrez, Humanities and Social Science Bldg., Rm.
  5016, Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0104.
  dggutierrez@ucsd.edu
  
• Suzanne M. Sinke, 401 Bellamy Hall, Dept. of History,
  Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-2202.
  ssinke@fsu.edu