Paulo Fontes, the author of Um nordeste em São Paulo: tra­bal­hadores migrantes em São Miguel Paulista (1945–66), (Rio de Janeiro: Fun­dação Getúlio Var­gas, 2009) is the win­ner of the first Thomas E. Skid­more Prize, spon­sored by the National Archive, Rio de Janeiro and the Brazil­ian Stud­ies Asso­ci­a­tion. The $5,000 prize is to sup­port the trans­la­tion of the book so that it can be pub­lished in Eng­lish. The prize, endowed through a gen­er­ous dona­tion of the Skid­more fam­ily, rec­og­nizes his­tor­i­cal works on twentieth-century Brazil­ian his­tory. The first prize com­pe­ti­tion con­sid­ered books cov­er­ing the period 1930–64 that had been pub­lished in Por­tuguese between 2004 and 2010.

Three addi­tional works received Hon­or­able Men­tion: Regina Horta Duarte, A biolo­gia mil­i­tante: o Museu Nacional, espe­cial­iza­ção cien­tí­fica, divul­gação do con­hec­i­mento e práti­cas políti­cas no Brasil — 1926–1945 (Belo Hor­i­zonte: Edi­tora UFMG, 2010); Jorge Fer­reira, O imag­inário tra­bal­hista: getulismo, PTB e cul­tura política pop­u­lar 1945–1964 (Rio de Janeiro: Civ­i­liza­ção Brasileira, 2005); and Anto­nio Luigi Negro, Lin­has de mon­tagem: indus­tri­al­ismo nacional-desenvolvimentista e a sindi­cal­iza­ção dos tra­bal­hadores (São Paulo: Boitempo, 2004).

The Prize Com­mit­tee was com­posed of James N. Green, (Chair), Ângela Maria Casto Gomes, Luís Edmundo de Souza Moraes, Maria Helena Capelato, and Vitor Manoel Mar­ques da Fon­seca. The next Skid­more Prize will be awarded in 2013 and will con­sider works pub­lished in Por­tuguese between 2006 and 2012 cov­er­ing the period 1964–85.