Jonathan Earle, associate professor of history, and Jill Kuhnheim, professor of Spanish and Portuguese, are the winners of the 2005 Byron Caldwell Smith Book Prize, awarded by the Hall Center for the Humanities at Kansas University.

Earle won the award for his book, “Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil, 1824-1854,” published by the University of North Carolina Press, and Kuhnheim for her book, “Textual Disruptions: Spanish American Poetry at the End of the Twentieth Century,” published by the University of Texas Press.

Earle and Kuhnheim will speak about their respective works at the Byron Caldwell Smith Lecture at 7 p.m. Sept. 21 at the Spencer Museum of Art. The free event is open to the public, and a reception and book signing will follow.