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Life, Luck, and How I Became a Historian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2015

Susan M. Socolow
Susan M. Socolow*
Affiliation:
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
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Before I begin, I want to thank the Conference on Latin American History[CLAH] and the Distinguished Service Award Committee for giving me thissignal honor. This organization has always been important to me, and it'sreally nice to know tiiat it thinks I've been important to it.

The last talk I gave to CLAH was in Atlanta five years ago. I told the storyof one man, Santiago de Liniers, and his good and bad fortune. Just as forLiniers, luck has played a huge role in my life.

Type
2013 Clah Luncheon Address
Information
The Americas , Volume 70 , Issue 1 , July 2013 , pp. 1 - 8
Copyright
Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 2013

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Susan Socolow gave this talk upon her acceptance of the Distinguished Service Award of the Conference of Latin American History at its annual luncheon during the American Historical Association meeting in New Orleans, January 4, 2013.

1. In an application for funding from the French government, CERMACA, an institute for the study of Mexican and Peruvian colonial history that I was associated with, described me as “a scholar of extreme southeastern Bolivia.” I have always wondered how my Argentine friends would have taken that.