Western History Association lauds work on Spanish borderlands history
Samuel Truett, assistant professor of history, is the winner of the Western History Association’s 2006 Bolton-Kinnaird Award for best article on Spanish borderlands history. His article, “Epics of a Greater America: Herbert Eugene Bolton’s Quest for a Transnational American History” is a chapter in the University of New Mexico Press book, “Interpreting Spanish Colonialism,” by Christopher Schmit-Nowara and John Nieto-Phillips.
Truett will be honored in St. Louis, Mo. on Friday, Oct. 13 at the annual banquet during the Western History Association conference.
Truett has taught at UNM since 1998. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University and has been a Fulbright Lecturer in Finland and a Mellon Research Fellow at the Huntington Library. He is the author of “Fugitive Landscapes: The forgotten history of the U.S. – Mexico borderlands,” to be released mid-October by Yale University Press, and co-editor of “Continental Crossroads: Remapping U.S. – Mexico borderlands history,” published by Duke University Press.
More information about the book “Interpreting Spanish Colonialism” is available at UNM Press.
Media Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920; e-mail: cgonzal@unm.edu
Posted by scarr at October 5, 2006 01:12 PM