Past Prize Winners & Award Recipients
2014
MACLAS 2014 Prize & Award Committees and Prize Winners & Award Recipients
Arthur P. Whitaker Prize
The committee for the Arthur P. Whitaker Prize (for the best book published by in the previous two years by a MACLAS member who has been a member in good standing for the last two years) consisted of chair Patricia Rodriguez, Andrea Lepage and Ivette Guzmán-Zavala.
Arthur P. Whitaker Prize Winners: Luis Roniger and Mario Sznajder, for La política del destierro y el exilio en América Latina Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2013.
Harold Eugene Davis Prize
The committee for the Harold Eugene Davis Prize (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) was comprised of chair Michael Schroeder, Brunilda Amarillis Lugo de Fabriz, and Betsy Konefal.
Harold Eugene Davis Prize Winner: Luis Roniger, for “La sacralización del consenso nacional y las pugnas por la memoria histórica y la justicia en el Uruguay posdictatorial (The Sanctification of National Consensus and Struggles over Historical Memory and Justice in Post-Dictatorial Uruguay),” América Latina Hoy 61, 2012.
Władysław Maryan Froelich Research Award
The committee for the Władysław Maryan Froelich Research Grant (which offers up to two $500 prizes annually to faculty, professionals or independent scholars to carry out research or creative projects on any facet of Latin American culture, politics, and society) consisted of Brian Turner and other Essays editors.
Awardees: Jeffrey Pugh and Eric Sung, to support their project “Visualizing Peace and Justice in Ecuador and Providence.”
Christina Turner Graduate Student Travel Awards
The committee for the Christina Turner Graduate Student Travel Awards (for graduate students to subsidize a portion of the travel expenses to the annual MACLAS conference) was comprised of chair Silvia Peart, Perla Sassón-Henry, Michelle Stephens, and Bonar Hernández.
Awardees: Kia Hall of American University and Leisha Reynolds-Ramos of the University of Arizona
Judy B. McInnis Distinguished Service Award
The committee for the Judy B. McInnis Distinguished Service Award (awarded to a longstanding MACLAS member for outstanding service to MACLAS and/or to the larger academic community of Latin American studies, continuous outstanding scholarship, excellent teaching, and/or humanitarian endeavors in Latin America) consisted of chair Maria Roof, John Incledon and Mark Wasserman.
Awardee: Brian Turner
James Street Prize
The committee for the James Street Prize (awarded to the best article published in Latin American Essays) was comprised of Brian Turner and other Essays editors.
James Street Prize Winner: Ivani Vassoler, for “Baron of Rio Branco and the Construction of the Brazilian International Identity.” This article appeared in Volume 26 (2012) of Latin American Essays.
James Street Prize
The committee for the James Street Prize (awarded to the best article published in Latin American Essays) was comprised of Brian Turner and other Essays editors.
James Street Prize Winner: Vera Blinn Reber, for “Buenos Aires Confronts Tuberculosis: Public Health, Physicians, and Patients in a Global Context.” This article appeared in Volume 27 (2013) of Latin American Essays.
Juan Espadas Prize
The committee for the Juan Espadas Prize (for the best paper submitted to the conference by an undergraduate student) consisted of Roberto Sanchez and Ted Cohen.
Juan Espadas Prize Winner: Dylan Reed of Lebanon Valley College for “ISI and Brazilian State Intervention: Lessons from Brazil to the United States.”
John D. Martz III Prize
The committee for the John D. Martz III Prize (for the best paper submitted to the conference by a graduate student) was comprised of Rosita Villagomez and William Holliday.
John D. Martz III Prize Winner: Monica Simorangkir of Georgetown University for “La mujer disfrazada de loca en Delirio de Laura Restrepo.”