The Immigration and Ethnic History Society Announces the 2008 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award

     The annual Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award of $1,000 was established in memory of Professor Theodore Saloutos, distinguished historian and first president of the Immigration History Society, by Mrs. Florence Saloutos. The 2008 award will be presented for the book judged best on any aspect of the immigration history of the United States. "Immigration history" is defined as the history of the movement of peoples from other countries to the United States, of the repatriation movements of immigrants, and of the consequences of these migrations, both for the United States and the countries of origin.
     Closing date for submissions for the annual Theodore Saloutos Book Award is December 31, 2007. To be eligible, a book must be copyrighted 2007. A book may be nominated by the author, the publisher, a member of the prize committee, or a member of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. Inquiries and nominations should be submitted to the chair of the Saloutos Prize Committee, Prof. Thomas Dublin, Department of History, SUNY-Binghamton, PO Box 6000, Binghamton, NY 13902 (e-mail: tdublin@binghamton.edu).
     Copies of the book must be received by all three members of the committee by December 31, 2007. Committee members and addresses are as follows:

     The Theodore Saloutos Prize Committee reached a unanimous decision to award the 2007 Theodore Saloutos Prize of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society to Eric Goldstein for his book, The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity (Princeton University Press, 2006).

The George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award

     The Immigration and Ethnic History Society announces competition for the 2008 George E. Pozzetta Award. It invites applications from any PhD candidate who will have completed qualifying examinations by December 1, 2007, and whose thesis focuses on American immigration, emigration, or ethnic history. The award provides $750 for expenses to be incurred in researching the dissertation. Applicants must submit a 3–5 page descriptive proposal in English discussing the significance of the work and the methodology, sources, and collections to be consulted. The application must also include a proposed budget, a brief curriculum vitae, and a supporting letter from the major adviser. All materials must be received by each committee member by December 15, 2007, which is the submission deadline.
     Send materials in hard copy (no faxes accepted) to:

Inquiries to Professor Chen at Y3Chen@benfranklin.hnet.uci.edu.

     The 2007 winner of the George E. Pozzetta Award is Rachel Kranson, a graduate student in the History Department at New York University, for her work, "Grappling with the Good Life: Anxieties of Jewish Affluence and Consumption in Postwar America, 1945–1967."

Guidelines for the OAH/IEHS Higham Travel Grant Award 2008

1. Established in memory of Professor John Higham, who died July 2003.
2. Travel awards of $500 to three graduate students each year.
3. Funds to be used by graduate students towards costs of attending OAH/IEHS annual meeting.
4. Deadline for electronic submission of application will be December 1, 2007.
5. Applications are to be sent to higham@lists.oah.org and only in Word format.
6. CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE: Professor Nancy Foner, Hunter College and Graduate Center, CUNY, nfoner@spec.net.
7. CANDIDATE'S PREFERRED AREA OF CONCENTRATION: American Immigration and/or American Ethnic and/or American Intellectual History.
   1. REQUIRED INFORMATION: Current and permanent addresses; educational background; degrees achieved and expected; current institution attending; current status; travel funds from other sources; publications and papers presented.
   2. QUALIFICATION: Minimum preferred, ABD.
   3. TRAVEL FUNDING: Applicants will need to indicate if other travel moneys will be available.
   4. ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS: Committee will seek some balance by gender, region of country, and type of university.
   5. REQUIRED STATEMENT: Applicants will be required to include a short statement of no more than 500 words about how they envision that attending the annual meeting will help prepare them for a career in history.
8. DECISIONS will be forwarded to the OAH by January 15, 2008. Grants will beannounced in early February 2008.
9. AWARD will be given to the student when he/she attends the annual meeting in the year for which the award was given.
10. You may also obtain information on this award from the OAH Web site: www.oah.org/pubs/cmteguide/higham/index.html.

     Three John Higham travel grants to attend the 2007 Organization of American Historians Convention, jointly administered by the IEHS and the OAH, were awarded to graduate students Eric Schlereth, Stephen Mak, and Maddalena Marinari.