NECLAS
Mission Statement
The mission of the Council is to foster and develop interests in Latin American studies by scholars, researchers, teachers, students, and the general public primarily located in the New England region, to encourage more effective training, teaching and research in Latin American affairs, and to facilitate greater exchanges within the region of information and ideas through lectures, forum, seminars, conferences, and publications.
2008 Vice Presidential and Executive Committee Elections
Information on voting will be forthcoming
2008 Vice President and Executive Committee Candidates
2008 Prize Competition Information
Please mail all entries to 2008 NECLAS President Lowell Gudmundson: Latin American Studies, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA 01075
Deadline June 1, 2008.
NECLAS sponsors five annual prizes: The Best Book Award, The Joseph T. Criscenti Prize for the Best Article, The Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award, the Best Book Translation Prize (books translated into English, now a separate category from the Best Book Prize), and the Best Multimedia Award (published educational software). The Translation and Multimedia prizes may be awarded annually, or, if an insufficient number of submissions are received, they may be carried over from year to year at the discretion of the Vice President of NECLAS and the prize committee chairs. The prize in each category is $200. **Members are limited to one submission per year in only one category.**
2008 Annual Meeting
The 38th annual meeting of NECLAS will take place at Brown University in Providence Rhode Island on Saturday October 4th, 2008. The theme is “Transitions North and South."