DeGolyer Library William P.
Clements Center for Southwest StudiesSponsored by Southern Methodist University's
DeGolyer Library
William P.
Clements Center for Southwest Studies
Awarded Friday, September 7, 2007
At the
DeGolyer Library on the campus of
Southern Methodist University
"Ned Blackhawk follows the “cycles of violence” that were set in motion by Spanish colonization and continued by Mexico and the United States, affecting first the Utes of Colorado and New Mexico, then reaching deeper into the arid recesses of the Great Basin to the Paiute and, finally, the Western Shoshone, Blackhawk’s own people. He is not just rephrasing what is already known, but actually filling a void in historical knowledge by restoring previously overlooked peoples to the record.
--David Wishart, Chair of the Department of Anthropology and Geography , University of Nebraska, Lincoln
2007 Frederick Jackson Turner Award for the Most Significant First Book in American History, Organization of American Historians
2007 Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize for the Best Book of the Year, the American Society for Ethnohistory
2006 William P. Clements Prize for the Best Non-fiction Book on Southwestern America for 2006, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University
2007 Robert M. Utley Award for the Best Book on the Military History of the American Frontier, Western History Association
2007 Lora Romero First Book Prize, American Studies Association
Ned Blackhawk's specializations are North American Indian History, Culture, and Identity from U.S. Colonial to 21st Century; Race and Multiculturalism; Comparative Colonialisms. His current research and teaching interests include American Indian history, U.S. West, Spanish Borderlands, Comparative Colonialism, and Race and Violence. Blackhawk is Associate Professor of History at University of Wisconsin, Madison.
The $2,500 Clements Book Prize honors fine writing and original research on the American Southwest. The competition is open to any nonfiction book, including biography, on any aspect of Southwestern life, past or present. The William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies is part of SMU's Dedman College and affiliated with the Department of History. It was created to promote research, publishing, teaching and public programming in a variety of fields related to the American Southwest. For more information about the Center or about the upcoming book prize event, please call (214) 768-3684 or see http://smu.edu/swcenter/prize.htm.
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Last updated October 11, 2007.
