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Juliana Barr

Juliana Barr, a former Fellow of ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ's in , has won the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ's Clements Prize for the Best Non-Fiction Book on Southwestern America published in 2007. She is the first former Clements ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Fellow to receive the Clements Book Prize.

Barr, an associate professor of history at the University of Florida-Gainesville, received the honor for (University of North Carolina Press). She will accept the award in a ceremony at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 28 in McCord Auditorium, Dallas Hall. A 6 p.m. reception precedes the award ceremony and lecture, with a book signing to follow.

In her book, which she researched during her Clements ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ fellowship in 1999-2000, Barr argues that American Indians not only retained control over their territories but also imposed control over Spaniards. Because native systems of kin-based social and political order predominated, Indian concepts of gender cut across European perceptions of racial difference, she writes.

"The Barr book soars," wrote the Clements Book Prize judging committee, an independent panel of judges not affiliated with ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ. "It not only takes on some large historiographical questions, but makes its argument in clear and lively prose."

Barr's book has received other major awards including the 2008 Berkshire Conference First Book Prize from the ; the 2007 Liz Carpenter Award from the ; the 2007 Murdo J. MacLeod Prize, Latin American and Caribbean Section, of the ; and the 2007 Charles S. Sydnor Award of the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Historical Association.

The $2,500 Clements Book Prize honors fine writing and original research on the American Southwest. The competition is open to any nonfiction book, including biography, on any aspect of Southwestern life, past or present.

The ceremony is free and open to the public, but space is limited. To make a reservation, call 8-3684 or .

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