Awards                                                    

The Barbara T. Christian Award  I  Gordon K. Lewis Prize

George Priestley Graduate Student Award 

The Caribbean Studies Social Justice Graduate Student Paper Award is being established in honor of Dr. George Priestley in recognition of his lifelong contributions to social justice, anti-racism, HIV/AIDS awareness, the Afro-Latino identity, and international human rights issues. Dr. Priestley was a key member of the CSA executive committee for many years who unselfishly gave his time and leadership to the organization in capacity of executive council member and program chair. This award honors a graduate student attending the 2010 conference whose paper is focused on the areas that were most important to Dr. Priestley. Graduate students can self nominate their papers or they can be nominated by a current CSA member. All graduate student papers submitted for consideration for this award will be judged based on excellence in scholarship, methodology and creativity in any of the following areas: Social justice, anti-racism, HIV/AIDS awareness, Afro-Latino identity and international human rights issues as they pertain to Latin America or the Caribbean both regionally and/or in the diasporic community. The award will consist of a plaque and $200 dollars.

The award committee is composed of three current CSA members and one member of the Priestley family. The award will be presented at the 2010 CSA awards night in Barbados. The award nominee will need to submit her/his package by May 1, 2010 for full consideration.

The award nominee must be a current graduate student enrolled at a university who is presenting their work at the 2010 CSA conference in Barbados. An application packet needs to consists of the following items:

1. An electronic letter of nomination
2. An electronic copy of the nominee’s current resumé or curriculum vitae.
3. An electronic copy of the nominee’s final research paper.

Submit the complete award package to:

Mr Amilcar Priestley coiconsulting@gmail.com
Dr Irma McClaurin imcclaur@umn.edu
Dr. Dwaine Plaza dplaza@orst.edu
Dr. Anton Allahar allahar@uwo.ca

The Barbara T. Christian Award, 2010  

The Barbara T. Christian Literary Award was established in 2001 by CSA past President Dr. Cora Christian to celebrate her sister’s intellectual legacy in black feminist criticism. A $500 cash award and certificate will be given to the best paper presented by an Undergraduate, Graduate or Junior (non-tenured) faculty in any discipline presented at the 2010 Caribbean Studies Association Conference in Barbados. 

Gordon K. Lewis Prize

To honor the memory of distinguished Caribbeanist Gordon K. Lewis, the Caribbean Studies Association has established a yearly award to be given for the best book about the Caribbean published over the previous three-year period in Spanish, English, French or Dutch.  The nominated book should approach the chosen subject or aspect of Caribbean life conditions and situations from an interdisciplinary perspective, and should clearly be shown to have regional impact.  Monographs in all disciplines and fields of Caribbean scholarship will be considered.  Preference will be given to books written by one or more authors as opposed to edited volumes.