MACLAS MARCH 10-11, 2023
Prizes and Awards from MACLAS 2023 SALISBURY, MD
The Harold Eugene Davis Prize Winner: Rebekah E. Pite. “The Rural Woman Enters the Frame: A Visual History of Gender, Nation, and the Goodbye Mate in the Postcolonial Rio de la Plata.” Journal of Social History vol. 54 no. 4 (2021), pp. 1120–1159.
*Davis Prize Committee Members: (Brian Potter) (interim chair), Leon Arredondo (West Chester University).
The Juan Espadas Prize Winner: Jocelyn R. Brown for their presentation, titled “Goats Die, Butterflies Fly: Portrayals of Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo (1891–1961) in Historical Fiction and Non-Fiction.”
*Espadas Prize Committee Members: Jason Bartles, Chair ( bartles@wcupa.edu) (West Chester University) and Matías Hermosilla (Stony Brook University)
The Władysław Maryan Froelich Research Grant Recipients:
Meaghan Tierney, Dept. of Art & Art History, Ursinus College
Project Title: “A preliminary investigation of the imagery and forms of Nasca head jars excavated by M. Toribio Mejía Xesspe in the Rio Grande de Nazca region, 1927”
Description: Funds requested for a travel (roundtrip mileage from Collegeville, PA) and hotel expenses for a week-long stay in Washington D.C. to consult the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection that includes the Donald Proulx Nasca Archive.
David Sheinin, Dept. of History, Trent University .
Project Title: “Made in Colombia”
Description: Funds requested to spend three weeks conducting research at the Rockefeller Archive Center in Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation records relevant to the Colombia Project and related agricultural development projects in South America, in order to further understand the goals and effects of the Colombia Project.
*Froelich Research Grant Committee Members: Mirna Trauger, Chair (mirnatrauger@muhlenberg.edu) (Muhlenberg College), Ivani Vassoler (SUNY Fredonia), Nilsa Lasso Von Lang (Moravian University)
The John D. Martz III Prize Winner: Pattricia Mesa (Florida Atlantic University). Title: "Fresa y chocolate: el camino entre géneros."
*Martz Prize Committee members: Gonzalo Aguiar Malosetti (interim chair: SUNY Oswego), Alejandra Aguilar (Florida Atlantic University), James Baer
The Judy McInnis Distinguished Service Award: No nominations were made for the 2023 conference.
*McInnis Service Award Committee members: Gloria B. Clark, Chair (gbc3@psu.edu) (Pennsylvania State University) , Brian Turner (Randolph Macon College), and Kathy Cunniffe-Peña (Muskingum University).
The James Street Prize Winner: Ruiz, María Luisa, "Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears a Crown: Narcoqueens, Beauty Queens and Melodrama in Narconarratives." 2021, 5.1
*Street Prize Committee Members: Alistair Hattingh, Chair (hattingh@muskingum.edu), (Muskingum University), Jennifer Jolly (Ithaca College), Daniela Johannes (West Chester University).
The Christina Turner Graduate Student Travel Award Recipient: Mathew Harris (PhD Program, Department of History, West Virginia University) “Indigenophile Imperialist: E.G. Squier, Afro-Indigenous People, and Central American Stability”
*Turner Travel Award Committee members: Amanda M. Frantz-Mamani, Chair (frantzmamani@pennwest.edu) (Pennwest University), David Mongor-Lizarrabengoa (Wor-Wic Community College), Mike Schroeder (Lebanon Valley College).
The Arthur P. Whitaker Prize Winner: Thomas Miller Klubock. Ranquil: Rural Rebellion, Political Violence, and Historical Memory in Chile. Yale University Press, 2021.
*Whitaker Prize Committee Members: Brian Potter (interim chair, TCNJ), Brooke Larson (SUNY Stony Brook).