Congratulations to Stuart B. Schwartz and Maria-Elena Martinez! The American Historical Association has announced its prize-winners for the upcoming conference in January, and Ibero-American history has done quite well indeed.

Stuart B. Schwartz, All Can Be Saved: Religious  Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World (Yale, 2008) won the Leo Gershoy Award, the John E. Fagg Prize, and the George L. Mosse Prize. Maria-Elena Martinez, Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico (Stanford, 2008), won the James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History. In other words, Martinez is the only one preventing Schwartz from a clean sweep of the awards for which All Can Be Saved was eligible. What a testimony to the strength of our field.

It should be mentioned that prior to winning these AHA awards, All Can Be Saved was named the “Book of the Year” by “EM Spanish History Notes.” Perhaps we should start viewing this website as a prognosticator, just as we see the Critics’ Choice Awards as pointing to future winners of the Oscars…

The University of Macau is advertising for a position in Portuguese or Iberian history; the Portuguese overseas empire, eg Macau, seems to be emphasized.

Tufts University is, as it did last year, advertising for an endowed chair in “Spanish culture and civilization.”

Link requires membership in the AHA.

Here’s another new job ad, this one for the Prince of Asturias chair in Spanish Culture and Civilization at Tufts University. Essentially, the job is for “post-Colombian Spanish History,” especially for Spanish relations with America and/or the rest of the world, for a rank of associate or full professor.

I came across this job ad in the AHA’s website: “The Department of History of the Johns Hopkins University seeks to make a tenured appointment at the associate or full professor level in the field of medieval/early modern history, with a particular focus on Jewish history or Jewish-Muslim-Christian relations. Historians specializing in the Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds are particularly encouraged to apply. Send a letter of interest, a c.v., and three letters of recommendation no later than January 1, 2009, to Prof. Richard Kagan … Candidates of sufficient distinction may be considered for the Charlotte Bloomberg Chair in the Humanities.”

Hmm…