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Jay I. Kislak FoundationKislak Prize

de Bry engraving
Six Further Rivers are Discovered by the French, engraving, Théodoré de Bry after Jacques Le Moyne

Previous Winners


In cooperation with Florida International University, the Kislak Foundation sponsored an award program recognizing outstanding university-level scholarship in areas of Florida or Caribbean history, anthropology or archaeology before 1898.

Recent winners, including scholars from Yale, Harvard, Vanderbilt and other prominent universities, have explored topics such as the spread of European trade and religion, the role of slavery in colonization of the Americas and the evolution of American policy toward Cuba.

The top award in 2002 went to Eugenio A. Alonso López for his essay
The prize program was directed by Sherry Johnson, Ph.D., assistant professor of Latin American History and Cuban Studies, at Florida International University.

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