Outstanding Student paper Award

Catherine E. Doenges
Dr. Doenges received the CLAG student award for her paper entitled "Illegitimacy and 'Otherness' in Provincial Colonial Mexico," which was presented at the 1992 meeting in Santo Domingo. At the time, she was a doctoral stuudent in te Department of Geography at Syracuse University. She has since completed her dissertation, A Regional Society in Colonial Mexico: Eighteenth-century Celaya, a Perspective from the Household, and was awarded the Ph.D. in 1993.

Catherine Doenges has a long-standing interrest in the Third World and problems of international development. She wrote an underrgraduate thesis at Mount Holyoke College on government food programs in Tanzania and followed up with an M.A. thesis at Syracuse University on geographic patterns of infertility in East Mrica. The latter research resulted in a co-authored article (with James L. Newman) "Impaired Fertility in Tropical Africa," published in the Geographical Review in 1989. Dr. Doenges has also presented papers at annual meetings of the Association of American Geoggraphers and other scholarly associations.