2009 MACLAS Prize Winners

 The Whitaker Prize for the best book published by a MACLAS member in 2007 or 2008:

Jack Child.  Miniature Messages:  The Semiotics and Politics of Latin American Postage Stamps.  Durham, Duke University Press.  2008.

The James Street Prize for the best article published by a MACLAS member in the 2008 volume of Latin American Essays:

David Shienen, "Sport and Nation in Proceso Argentina: Dictatorship Ideologies, Media Representations, and the Rise of Guillermo Vilas and Carlos Reutemann"
 

The Juan Espadas Prize for the best paper presented by an undergraduate student at the 2009 MACLAS Conference:

Stephanie Demaree, "Macondo versus McOndo: realismo mágico y el peso de la memoria histórica en The Brief Wondrous Life Oscar Wao"