To honor the memory of their son and brother, Allan, the Sharlin family has generously donated funds to the Social Science History Association to promote scholarly contributions in the fields in which Allan was active.

Allan exemplified the finest traditions of social science history. His training and scholarship were broadly interdisciplinary and he used both quantitative and more traditional methodologies. He received his B.A. in History from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. in History from the University of Wisconsin, he studied demography for two years at the Office of Population Research at Princeton University, and, at the time of his death in March 1983, he was on the faculty of the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. During his brief scholarly career he published articles on sociological theory, on social and spatial mobility in German cities, and on new techniques for estimating demographic parameters in historical populations.

The Allan Sharlin Memorial Award is presented annually for an outstanding book in social science history published in the previous year (2007). The amount of the award is $500.

The deadline for submission is June 30, 2008. A copy of the manuscript should be sent to EACH member of the committee listed below, including one copy to the Association’s Executive Director. You may contact the Committee Chair Daniel Bender at debender@utsc.utoronto.ca with any queries. Note: manuscripts submitted for this award will not be returned.

Daniel Bender, Chair (History and Humanities)
Department of Humanities
University of Toronto
1265 Military Trail
Toronto, Ontario M1C 1A4
CANADA

Mabel Berezin (Sociology)
Cornell University
354 Uris Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-7601

Kathleen Blee (Sociology)
University of Pittsburgh
2417 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

William Block (Executive Director)
Social Science History Association
Cornell University--CISER
391 Pine Tree Rd
Ithaca, NY 14850

Katherine Lynch (History)
Department of History
Baker Hall 240
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890

Announcement of the winner of the 2008 Sharlin Memorial Award will be made at the 2008 meetings of the SSHA in Miami, FL, 23-26 October 2008.

A list of past winners is available.