The Coalition for Western Women’s History announces the 11th Annual

Irene Ledesma Prize, 2009

For Ph.D. graduate student research in western women’s history.

Deadline for submission: June 1, 2009.

The $1,000 prize supports travel to collections or other research expenses related to the histories of women and gender in the American West. Applicants must be enrolled in a Ph.D. program and members of the CWWH.

The prize honors the memory of Irene Ledesma whose contributions to Chicana and working-class history were ended by her untimely death in 1997.

The prize recipient will be the guest of the CWWH, which will award the prize at the CWWH Breakfast during the 49th Annual Western History Association conference in Denver , Colorado 7-10, 2009.

Proposals will be evaluated according to the following criteria:

How well the applicant stated her/his research question and the significance of the overall project.
How well the applicant demonstrated her/his knowledge of the primary source materials related to the proposal.
How well the applicant framed her/his project in terms of the broader theoretical/historiographic issues significant to the topic.
How well the proposal addressed issues of gender and/or women’s history in the U.S. West.
How well the proposed budget dovetails with the applicant’s stated research agenda.

To apply submit three copies of the following: a CV; a brief description of the research project and an explanation of how the prize funds would support the research (not exceeding three pages, double-spaced), a line-item budget, and a letter of support from the student’s major advisor by June 1, 2009 (postmark) to:

Maria Raquel Casas

Chair, Ledesma Prize Committee

University of Nevada , Las Vegas

Department of History

4505 S. Maryland Parkway

Box 455020

Las Vegas , Nevada 89154-5020

For more information, contact Dr. Casas at maria.casas@unlv.edu

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updated: April 6, 2009