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[Please post or forward as appropriate; apologies for multiple postings.] ALBA George Watt Memorial Essay Contest 2006 The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) is pleased to announce the continuing annual competition for the George Watt Memorial Essay prizes. ALBA awards prizes for the best essays about the Spanish Civil War, the global anti-fascist political or cultural struggles of the 1920s and 1930s, or the lifetime histories and contributions of the Americans who fought in support of the Spanish Republic from 1936-1938. At least two prizes of $500 each will be awarded each year, one to the best undergraduate student work and one to the best graduate student work on one or more of the above topics. Work will be judged on the basis of originality and effectiveness of argument and presentation. The work must be have been produced to fulfill an undergraduate or graduate course or degree requirement. We welcome submissions from both U.S. and international contestants. The deadline for receipt of essays for the 2006 awards is May 1, 2006. Works produced either during the year of submission or during the previous calendar year are eligible for the competition. Essays must be at least 5,000 words long to be considered for a prize. Applicants should be sure to include a title page with name, address, e-mail, and telephone number. Please e-mail entries as MS-Word attachments to: [log in to unmask] Award winners will be announced in May 2006. ALBA’s Executive Committee appoints the judges for the contest. Daniel Czitrom Chair, George Watt Award Committee Department of History Mount Holyoke College S. Hadley MA 01075 ALBA is a non-profit organization devoted to the preservation and dissemination of the record of the American role in the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath. ALBA supervises a major archive at New York University’s Tamiment Library (the most comprehensive historical archive documenting the American involvement in the Spanish Civil War), and it supports cultural and educational activities related to the war and its historical, political, artistic, and biographical heritage. Some 2,800 American men and women, realizing the danger international fascism presented to the world, came to the defense of the Spanish Republic in the years just prior to the Second World War. On the other side were forces led by rebel Spanish generals supported by Hitler and Mussolini. The prizes honor the memory of Abraham Lincoln Brigade veteran George Watt (1914-1994), not only for his own long anti-fascist record but also as a symbol of the many American men and women who risked, and sometimes lost, their lives in this struggle. Watt himself was a veteran of Spain who then served in the U.S. Army Corps in World War II. An effective and passionate voice for a variety of social causes in his lifetime, Watt was also a driving force behind the creation and on-going work of ALBA. -- Sebastiaan Faber Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies Dept of Hispanic Studies Oberlin College 50 N Professor St Oberlin, OH 44074-1091 tel.: (440)775-8189 fax: (440)775-6888 email: <[log in to unmask]> web site: <http://www.oberlin.edu/faculty/sfaber>