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Silvert Award
The Kalman H. Silvert Award was created in honor of the first president of the Latin American Studies Association. Given every 18 months, the Silvert Award "recognizes senior members of the profession who have made distinguished lifetime contributions to the study of Latin America." Recipients * John J. Johnson (1983) * Federico Gil (1985) * Albert O. Hirschman (1986) * Charles Wagley (1988) * Lewis Hanke (1989) * Victor L. Urquidi (1991) * George Kubler (1992) * Osvaldo Sunkel (1994) * Richard Fagen (1995) * Alain Touraine (1997) * Richard Adams (1998) * Jean Franco (2000) * Thomas Skidmore (2001) * Guillermo O'Donnell (2003) * June Nash (2004) * Miguel León-Portilla (2006) * Helen Safa (2007) * Alfred Stepan (2009) * Edelberto Torres Rivas (2010) * Julio Cotler (2012) * Peter H. Smith (2013) * Tulio Halperin-Donghi (2014) * Manuel Antonio Garretón (2015) * Rodolfo Stavenhagen (2016) * Marysa Navarro (2017) * Carmen Diana Deere (2018) * Lars Schoultz (2019) * Wayne A. Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Kalman Silvert
Kalman H. Silvert, (born 10 March 1921, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, died 15 June 1976, New York, New York) was an author of works on democracy in Latin America, the first president of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), and professor of political science at Tulane University, NYU, and other universities. The Kalman Silvert Award is LASA's highest award. Life and career Silvert was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania to Henry Jacob Silvert and Ida Levine Silvert. He attended University of Pennsylvania, studying political science and government. He earned his PhD in political science in 1948 from Penn. In 1942, he married Frieda Moskalik, and the couple had three sons. Silvert’s academic work on Latin America revolved around issues of democracy, repression, and education and focused on particular Latin American countries including Chile, Guatemala, and Venezuela. He was a professor of political science at New York University and the director of its Ibero-American Center. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |