Past Prize Winners & Award Recipients
2005
MACLAS 2005 Prize & Award Committees and Prize Winners & Award Recipients
Arthur P. Whitaker Prize
The Arthur P. Whitaker Prize is awarded for the best book published in the previous two years by a MACLAS member who has been a member in good standing for the past two years.
Arthur P. Whitaker Prize Winner: George Reid Andrews of the University of Pittsburgh for Afro-Latin America: 1800-2000, Oxford UP, 2004
Harold Eugene Davis Prize
The Harold Eugene Davis Prize is awarded for the best book chapter or article published in the previous two years by a member who has been in good standing for the past two years.
Harold Eugene Davis Prize Winner: John Stolle-McAllister of the University of Maryland Baltimore County for “Contingent Hybridity: The Cultural Politics of Tepotzlan’s Anti-Golf Movement,” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 11 (2004)
James Street Prize
The James Street Prize is awarded for the best article published in Latin American Essays.
James Street Prize Winner: Ken Lehman of Hampden-Sydney College for “History on Its Head with an Historian at the Helm: Bolivia’s Gas War – Precedent and Aftermath”
John D. Martz III Prize
The John D. Martz III Prize is awarded for the best paper submitted to the conference by a graduate student.
John D. Martz III Prize Winner: Andrea Castagnola of the University of Pittsburgh for “Political Scandals and the Dynamics of Politics in Latin American Countries”
Juan Espadas Prize
The Juan Espadas Prize is awarded for the best paper submitted to the conference by an undergraduate student.
Juan Espadas Prize Winner: Paul Angelo of the United States Naval Academy for “The Indigenous and Integration: The Impact of Indigenous Resistance to Globalization in Latin America on the International Community.”
2004
MACLAS 2004 Prize & Award Committees and Prize Winners & Award Recipients
Arthur P. Whitaker Prize
The Arthur P. Whitaker Prize is awarded for the best book published in the previous two years by a MACLAS member who has been a member in good standing for the past two years.
Arthur P. Whitaker Prize Winner: Gladys Ilarregui and Judy McInnis for (trans.) Poemas a medionoche/Poems at Midnight
Harold Eugene Davis Prize
The Harold Eugene Davis Prize is awarded for the best book chapter or article published in the previous two years by a member who has been in good standing for the past two years.
Harold Eugene Davis Prize Winner: Rebecca Bill Chavez for “The Construction of the Rule of Law in Argentina, A Tale of Two Provinces,” Comparative Politics, July 2003
James Street Prize
The James Street Prize is awarded for the best article published in Latin American Essays.
James Street Prize Winner: Ivani Vassoler for “Urban Visions: Lessons in Governance from Two Brazilian Cities”
John D. Martz III Prize
The John D. Martz III Prize is awarded for the best paper submitted to the conference by a graduate student.
John D. Martz III Prize Winner: Kevin Coleman for “Historical Narratives on the Banana Industry: US-Honduran Encounters, 1870s-1930s”
Juan Espadas Prize
The Juan Espadas Prize is awarded for the best paper submitted to the conference by an undergraduate student.
Juan Espadas Prize Winner: Adriana Beatriz Rojas for “La musa vence a su escultor: el papel surrealista de Susana San Juan en Pedro Paramo”
2003
MACLAS 2003 Prize & Award Committees and Prize Winners & Award Recipients
Harold Eugene Davis Prize
The Harold Eugene Davis Prize is awarded for the best book chapter or article published in the previous two years by a member who has been in good standing for the past two years.
Harold Eugene Davis Prize Winner: Brian Turner for “Liberating the Municipio Libre: The Normalization of Municipal Finance in Yucatan,” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 18:1 (Winter) 2002:101-131
James Street Prize
The James Street Prize is awarded for the best article published in Latin American Essays.
James Street Prize Winner: Richard Warren for “Rashomon in the Zócalo: Writing the History Of Popular Political Culture In Nineteenth Century Mexico”
John D. Martz III Prize
The John D. Martz III Prize is awarded for the best paper submitted to the conference by a graduate student.
John D. Martz III Prize Winner: Fatima Correa for “Los pasos perdidos: historia de un viaje fracasado”
Juan Espadas Prize
The Juan Espadas Prize is awarded for the best paper submitted to the conference by an undergraduate student.
Juan Espadas Prize Winner: Kaysha L. Corinealdi for “Black Organizing in Panama, 1960-2000”
2002
MACLAS 2002 Prize & Award Committees and Prize Winners & Award Recipients
Arthur P. Whitaker Prize
The Arthur P. Whitaker Prize is awarded for the best book published in the previous two years by a MACLAS member who has been a member in good standing for the past two years.
Arthur P. Whitaker Prize Winners: Mark Wasserman for Everyday Life and Politics in Nineteenth Century Mexico and Richard Warren for Vagrants and Citizens: Politics and the Masses in Mexico City from Colony to Republic
Harold Eugene Davis Prize
The Harold Eugene Davis Prize is awarded for the best book chapter or article published in the previous two years by a member who has been in good standing for the past two years.
Harold Eugene Davis Prize Winner: Thomas Ward for "Expanding Ethnicity in Sixteenth-Century Anahuac: Ideologies of Ethnicity and Gender in the Nation Building Process"
James Street Prize
The James Street Prize is awarded for the best article published in Latin American Essays.
James Street Prize Winner: John Stolle-McAllister for “Social Movements and Hybrid Cultural Formations: Tepoztlan’s ‘No al Golf'”
John D. Martz III Prize
The John D. Martz III Prize is awarded for the best paper submitted to the conference by a graduate student.
John D. Martz III Prize Winner: Maria Fátima Correa Flores for "Caciquísmo: estructura de poder en México"
Juan Espadas Prize
The Juan Espadas Prize is awarded for the best paper submitted to the conference by an undergraduate student.
Juan Espadas Prize Winner: Kathy Cunniffe for “The Fragmented Psyche Of Mexico: Fuentes’ Source for The Narrative Structure Of La Muerte De Artemio Cruz"
Information on prize winners from the years 2001 to 1997 is forthcoming.