NACS AWARDS

The object of the NACS prize, created in 2013, is to recognize and promote the academic work of scholars in the field of Catalan Studies whose primary professional affiliation is with higher education or research institutions in Canada and the United States. The prize is awarded to publications devoted to the study of the society, the language, and/or the culture of the Catalan-speaking territories from all areas of the Humanities.


 

PRIZE FOR THE BEST ARTICLE IN CATALAN REVIEW

The prize will be given biennially to the most innovative and high-quality original research
article appearing in the journal over a two-year span. For the current cycle, articles
published in issues 36 (2022) and 37 (2023) will be considered. The prize will be awarded
at the 19th North American Catalan Studies Colloquium in Minneapolis, MN from April
18th-21st, 2024.

Prize: The winner will be awarded a certificate, $400 USD, and an announcement on the
North American Catalan Society webpage with a link to the article.

Guidelines:
a) All articles published in the Catalan Review will be considered automatically without the author being required to submit a nomination request.
b) A committee composed of members of the NACS will select the awardee.
c) If the committee is unsatisfied with the pool of articles, the prize will be left unawarded for that cycle.

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THE NORTH AMERICAN CATALAN SOCIETY AWARD

For a outstanding work in the field of Catalan Studies

COMPETITION GUIDELINES NACS AWARDS 2022

1) The prize will be awarded to an outstanding contribution in the field of Catalan Studies made by a scholar based in North America or affiliated to a North American academic institution and who is a member of the NACS.

2) Works eligible for the award include an article, a book chapter, a book, an academic edition, and a translation.

3) To be eligible for the award, studies must have been published between January 1, 2022, and December 31, 2023. Works pending publication are not eligible.

4) Anyone can make a nomination. To nominate a work, a bibliographical reference must be sent by January 10, 2024, to secretarinacs@gmail.com

 5) The jury is composed of the following members: Maria Dasca (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Eloi Grasset (UC Santa Barbara), and Aurélie Vialette (Stony Brook University), chair

6) The President of the North American Catalan Society will announce the award at the 2024 Colloquium of the Society, which will be held at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. The award will consist of a certificate and $800 to help defray the cost of the awardee’s participation in the Colloquium.

7) This call for nominations is posted on the North American Catalan Society website (http://nacs.iec.cat/en/nacs-awards/).

   Prizes Awarded

2024

Paul Freedman

For his book The Splendor and Opulence of the Past. Studying The Middle Ages in Enlightenment Catalonia

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2024

Anna Casa Aguilar

For her book Bilingual Legacies: Father Figures in Self-Writing from Barcelona

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2024

Olga Sendra Ferrer

For her book Barcelona, City of Margins

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2022

H. Rosi Song and Anna Riera

For their book A Taste of Barcelona: The History of Catalan Cooking and Eating

2019

Kathleen McNerney

In recognition of her translation of Caterina Albert’s Silent Souls and Other Stories

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2019

Aurélie Vialette

For her book Intellectual Philanthropy: The Seduction of the Masses

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2019

Joan Ramon Resina

For his book Josep Pla: Seeing the World in the Form of Articles

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2017

Mary Ann Newman

For her translation of Josep Maria de Sagarra’s Vida Privada
(Private Live, Archipelago Books, 2015)

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2015

William Viestenz

For his contribution to the study of contemporary Catalan fiction

2013

Edgar Illas

For his book Thinking Barcelona: Ideologies of a Global City
(Liverpool University Press, 2012)

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2024

Antoni Maestre Bortons

For his article “Biopolítica i nostàlgia posthumana: Estació Boira d’Enric Herce

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2024

Remei Capdevila Werning

For her article “Renegotiating Globality: Catalan Architecture in a Transnational Context”

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