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Huggins-Quarles Award

The current competition is now closed. Updated information will be available by May 2013.

Named for Benjamin Quarles and Nathan Huggins, two outstanding historians of the African American past, the $500 Huggins-Quarles Award is given annually by the Organization of American Historians to one or two graduate students of color to assist them with expenses related to travel to research collections for the completion of the Ph.D. dissertation. These awards were established to promote greater diversity in the historical profession.

Application Procedures

To apply, the student should submit the following items:

Each application must be accompanied by a letter from the dissertation adviser attesting to the student’s status and the ways in which the Huggins-Quarles Award will facilitate the completion of the dissertation project. Please also include e-mail addresses for both the applicant and the adviser, if available.

One complete copy of each application (including cover letter, c.v., abstract, budget, and reference letter), clearly labeled “2013 Huggins-Quarles Award Entry,” must be mailed or e-mailed (in Microsoft Word format) directly to the committee members listed below. Each committee member must receive all applications by December 3, 2012.

The final decision will be made by the Huggins-Quarles Award Committee by February 1, 2013. The award will be presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, April 11–14.

Huggins-Quarles Award Committee

Laurene Wu McClain (Committee Chair)
City College of San Francisco
Social Sciences Department (History)
Box L-137
50 Phelan Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94112
lmcclain@ccsf.edu

William Bauer
University of Nevada - Las Vegas
Department of History
4505 S Maryland Parkway
Box 455020
Las Vegas, NV 89154
wbauer@unlv.edu

Miroslava Chávez-García
171 Sutley Circle
Sacramento, CA 95835
[Affiliation: University of California, Davis]
chavezgarcia@ucdavis.edu

Michael D. Innis-Jiménez
University of Alabama
Department of American Studies
Box 870214
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
mdinnisjimenez@bama.ua.edu

Jessica Millward
University of California, Irvine
Department of History
200 Murray Krieger Hall
Irvine, CA 92697-3275
millward@uci.edu

APPLICATION DEADLINE: DECEMBER 3, 2012

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