2020 Best Book in Amazonian Studies
Presented by the Amazonia section
Winner
Oscar de la Torre Cueva
University of North Carolina Charlotte
People of the River: Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia, 1835-1945 (2018)
Best Article Award
Presented by the Amazonia section
Winner
Natalia Buitron
University of Oxford
"Autonomy, productiveness, and community: the rise of inequality in an Amazonian society. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 26 (1). 48 - 66."
Honorable Mention
Patrícia Vieira
University of Coimbra / Georgetown University
(2020) “Rainforest Sublime in Cinema: A Post-Anthropocentric Amazonian Aesthetics.” Hispania. 103:4: 533-543.
Honorable Mention
Susanna B Hecht and Raoni Rajao
University od California, Los Angeles and Federal University Minas Gerais
(2020) From “Green Hell” to “Amazonia Legal”: Landuse models and the re-imagination of the rainforest as a new development frontier. Land Use Policy. July 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.02.030 .
Premio de la sección "Archivos, bibliotecas y becas digitales
Presented by the Archives, Libraries, and Digital Scholarship Section
Winners
Xóchitl Flores-Marcial; George Aaron Broadwell; Alejandra Dubcovsky; Moisés García Guzmán; Eloise Kadlecek; Collin Kawan-Hemler; Brook Danielle Lillehaugen; Felipe H. Lopez; May Helena Plumb and Mike Zarafonetis
Universidad Estatal de California Northridge y comunidades zapotecas de Oaxaca y Tlacolula de Matamoros, Oaxaca; Universidad de Florida; Universidad de California, Riverside;comunidad zapoteca de San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya; Bryn Mawr College ‘22; Haverford College ‘22; Haverford College; Bibliotecas de Haverford College y comunidad zapoteca de San Lucas Quiaviní; Universidad de Texas, Austin and Bibliotecas de Haverford College
"Caseidyneën Saën - Aprendiendo juntos: Materiales didácticos zapotecas del Valle Colonial"
Asia and the Americas LASA Best Academic Work 2021 Award
Presented by the Asia and the Americas section
Winner
Rhys O. Jenkins
University of East Anglia
How China is Reshaping the Global Economy: Development Impacts in Africa and Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2019)
Honorable Mention
Ignacio López-Calvo
University of California, Merced
Japanese Brazilian Saudades: Diasporic Identities and Cultural Production (University Press of Colorado, 2019)
Honorable Mention
Jian Gao
University of Texas, Austin and Shanghai University
Restoring the Chinese Voice during Mexican Sinophobia, 1919–1934” (The Latin Americanist, 63:1, March 2019: 48-72)
Premio a la Trayectoria Professional Apoyando Trabajo Profesional en Bolivia
Presented by the Bolivia section
Winner
Laurence Whitehead
Oxford University
Premio al mejor libro
Presented by the Bolivia section
Winner
Sarah Elizabeth Penry
Fordham University
(2019). The People Are King: The Making of an Indigenous Andean Politics. Oxford University Press.
Honorable Mention
Juan José Anaya Giorgis
Universidad Mayor de San Simón
(2018) Estado y Petróleo en Bolivia (Siglos XX-XXI). CCP, Centro de Estudios de Población, Universidad Mayor de San Simón.
BEST ARTICLE IN HUMANITIES – MELHOR ARTIGO EM CIÊNCIAS HUMANAS (ANTONIO CANDIDO PRIZE)
Presented by the Brazil section
Winner
Adam Joseph Shellhorse
Temple University
“The Verbivocovisual Revolution: Anti-Literature, Affect, Politics, and World Literature in Augusto de Campos.” CR: The New Centennial Review 20.1 (Spring 2020): 147-184.
Honorable Mention
Odile Cisneros
University of Alberta
“Augusto de Campos’s Outro: The Limits of Authorship and the Limits of Legibility.” Journal of Lusophone Studies 5.1 (Spring 2020): 38-63
BEST ARTICLE IN SOCIAL SCIENCES – Melhor Artigo em Ciências Sociais (Sérgio Buarque de Holanda prize)
Presented by the Brazil section
Winner
Antoine Acker
University of Zurich
“A Different Story in the Anthropocene: Brazil’s Post-Colonial Quest for Oil (1930-1975).” Past & Present 249.1 (November 2020): 167–211
Honorable Mention
Ian Carrillo
University of Oklahoma
“Racialized Organizations and Color-Blind Racial Ideology in Brazil.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 7.1 (2020): 56-70
BEST BOOK IN HUMANITIES – MELHOR LIVRO EM HUMANIDADES (ANTONIO CANDIDO PRIZE)
Presented by the Brazil section
Winner
Paul Christopher Johnson
University of Michigan
Automatic Religion: Nearhuman Agents of Brazil and France (University of Chicago Press)
Honorable Mention
Stephanie Dennison
University of Leeds
Remapping Brazilian Film Culture in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge)
Honorable Mention
Victoria Saramago
University of Chicago
Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America (Northwestern University Press)
BEST BOOK IN SOCIAL SCIENCES – MELHOR LIVRO EM CIÊNCIAS SOCIAIS (SÉRGIO BUARQUE DE HOLANDA PRIZE)
Presented by the Brazil section
Winner
John D. French
Duke University
Lula and his Politics of Cunning: From Metalworker to President of Brazil (University of North Carolina Press)
Honorable Mention
Brian Wampler, Natasha Borges Sugiyama and Michael Touchton
Boise State University, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and University of Miami
Democracy at Work: Pathways to Well-Being in Brazil (Cambridge University Press)
Honorable Mention
Marília Bueno de Araújo Ariza
University of São Paulo (USP)
Mães infames, filhos venturosos (Alameda Editorial)
BEST DISSERTATION IN HUMANITIES – Melhor Tese em Humanidades (Antonio Candido Prize)
Presented by the Brazil section
Winner
Jamie Lee Anderson
Pennsylvania State University
Mothers in the Family of Saints: Gender and Race in the Making of Afro-Brazilian Heritage (University of Michigan)
Honorable Mention
Ana Cláudia dos Santos São Bernardo
Tulane University
From the Dumpster to the Bookshelf: Literature Written by Black Women in Brazil and the Quest for Mobility from 1960 to the Present (University of Minnesota)
BEST DISSERTATION IN SOCIAL SCIENCES – MELHOR TESE EM CIÊNCIAS SOCIAIS (SÉRGIO BUARQUE DE HOLANDA PRIZE)
Presented by the Brazil section
Winner
David C. Thompson
University of California, Berkeley
“Resocialize to Conquer the Future”: Incarceration and Reform in Rio de Janeiro (University of California, Berkeley)
Honorable Mention
Benjamin Bradlow
Harvard University
Urban Origins of Democracy and Inequality: Governing São Paulo and Johannesburg, 1985-2016 (Brown University)
Honorable Mention
Guillermo Toral
Vanderbilt University
The Political Logics of Patronage: Uses and Abuses of Government Jobs in Brazil (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
BEST MA THESIS IN HUMANITIES - MELHOR DISSERTAÇÃO DE MESTRADO EM HUMANIDADES (ANTONIO CANDIDO PRIZE)
Presented by the Brazil section
Winner
Daniela Nascimento
UNESP/Araraquara
Carolina Maria de Jesus e a escrita de si como lugar de memória e resistência
Honorable Mention
Eduardo Monteiro Burkle
Queen's University Belfast
When Forgetting is Dangerous Transitional justice, Collective Remembrance and Brazil’s Shift to Far-Right Populism
Premio Monserrat Ordóñez 2020, para el mejor libro de estudios de género y de la mujer en Colombia
Presented by the Colombia section
Winners
Castriela Esther Hernández Reyes
Evelyne Laurent Perrault
Nayibe Katherine Arboleda Hurtado
Edna Carolina González Barona
Angélica María Sánchez Barona
María Ximena Abello Hurtado (Mandinga)
Lina Marcela Mosquera Lemus
Elba Mercedes Palacios Córdoba
Prrologuista: Maria Eugenia Chaves Maldonado
Demando mi libertad: Mujeres negras y sus estrategias de resistencia en la Nueva Granada, Venezuela y Cuba, 1700-1800
Premio 2021 al Mejor Ensayo Académico en Estudios Coloniales Latinoamericanos – Investigador Joven
Presented by the Colonial section
Winner
Larissa Brewer-García
University of Chicago
Hierarchy and Holiness in the Earliest Colonial Black Hagiographies: Alonso de Sandoval and His Sources
Honorable Mention
Iris Montero Sobrevilla
Brown University
The Disguise of the Hummingbird: On the Natural History of Huitzilopochtli in the Florentine Codex
Premio Inaugural al Mejor Ensayo Académico en Estudios Coloniales Latinoamericanos – Investigador Avanzado
Presented by the Colonial section
Winner
Vanina María Teglia
Universidad de Buenos Aires/CONICET
Claroscuros del archivo colonial: La escritura sobre la naturaleza de Fernández de Oviedo
Premio Inaugural al Mejor Ensayo Académico en Estudios Coloniales – Investigador Avanzado
Presented by the Colonial section
Winner
Allison Margaret Bigelow
University of Virginia
Transatlantic Quechuañol: Reading Race Through Colonial Translations
Premio a la Excelencia Académica en los Estudios sobre Cuba
Presented by the Cuba section
Winner
Ana Margarita Mateo Palmer.
Academia Cubana de la Lengua
Por su amplia trayectoria en favor de la cultura, el arte y la investigación crítica
Alfred Stepan Lifetime Achievement Award in Defense, Public Security, and Democracy 2021
Presented by the Defense, Public Security & Democracy section
Winner
David R. Mares
University of California, San Diego
Best Article or Edited Volume Chapter by Section Member
Presented by the Defense, Public Security & Democracy section
Winner
Annette Idler
University of Oxford
The Logic of Illicit Flows in Armed Conflict: Explaining Variation in Violent Non-state Group Interactions in Colombia, World Politics, 72 (3), 2020
2021 E+P Best Book Award
Presented by the Economics and Politics section
Winner
Gabriel Ondetti
Missouri State University
Property Threats and the Politics of Anti-Statism: The Historical Roots of Contemporary Tax Systems in Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Honorable Mention
Diego Sanchez-Ancochea
University of Oxford
The Costs of Inequality in Latin America: Lessons and Warnings for the Rest of the World. London: I.B. Taurus
Premio al mejor libro
Presented by the Ecuadorian Studies section
Winner
Erynn Masi de Casanova
University of Cincinnati
2019. Dust and dignity: domestic employment in contemporary Ecuador. Ithaca: ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press.
Honorable Mention
Jenny Pontón Cevallos
FLACSO Ecuador
2019. Mujeres en la publicidad del Ecuador: de las imágenes a los cuerpos. 1. ed. Serie Atrio. Quito, Ecuador: FLACSO Ecuador.
Honorable Mention
Marc Becker
Truman State University
2021. The CIA in Ecuador. American encounters/global interactions. Durham: Duke University Press.
Premio Dolores Cacuango al mejor ensayo -2019
Presented by the Ecuadorian Studies section
Winner
Cristina Vega, Myriam Paredes and Andrea Nathaly Almeida
Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador; Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador and Investigadora Independiente
“Desigualdades y crisis reproductiva tras el terremoto en la costa ecuatoriana. Estrategias familiares ante el modelo de desarrollo y trabajo extractivo”. AIBR, Revista de Antropología Iberoamericana 14 (2): 323–50.
Premio Dolores Cacuango al mejor ensayo- 2020
Presented by the Ecuadorian Studies section
Winner
Daniela Mora V. and Paola Lozada
FLACSO Ecuador y PUCE and PUCE y la Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar
La Economía solidaria: ¿Un discurso aglutinador o la posible expresión de un ‘contramovimiento? Revista Puce, mayo
Premio Nuevas Direcciones
Presented by the Ecuadorian Studies section
Winner
Diego Poma
Universidad Central de Ecuador
La Radio Como Dispositivo De Colonialidad Del Sonido Musical En Quito
Expert Witness Research Award
Presented by the Expert Witness section
Winner
Lynn Stephen
University of Oregon
"Fleeing Rural Violence: Mam women seeking gendered justice in Guatemala and the U.S." (2019) 1-17
Honorable Mention
Amelia Frank-Vitali and Juan José Martínez-d'Aubuisson
University of Michigan and Universidad Francisco Gavidia (El Salvador)
"The Generation of the Coup: Honduran Youth at Rish and of Risk" The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. (2020) 1-17
Mejor Ensayo Estudiante posgrado/investigador emergente (graduate or postgraduate)
Presented by the Film Studies section
Winner
Olivia Cosentino
University of South Carolina
Haunted Bodies: Spectrality, Gender Violence and the Central American Female Migrant in Recent Mexican Cinema
Premio del investigador/a inicio de la carrera
Presented by the Film Studies section
Winner
Mónica Ramón Ríos
PRATT INSTITUTE
Mejor Ensayo Investigador categoría general
Presented by the Film Studies section
Winner
Talía Dajes
University of Utah
Crímenes íntimos: incesto y violencia política en el cine peruano contemporáneo
Premio Elsa Chaney
Presented by the Gender and Feminist Studies section
Winner
Julia Hang
CONICET y FaHCE
Women, politics and gender in Argentine football clubs. An ethnographic approach to the gender area of Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata
Premio Marielle Franco
Presented by the Gender and Feminist Studies section
Winner
Rocío del Águila Gracey
City University of New York
Cuerpo, mestizaje y colonialidad la alteridad de las mujeres trans en las muestras fotográficas Padre Patria y Vírgenes de la Puerta
Haiti-Dominican Republic Section Article Prize
Presented by the Haiti/ Dominican Republic section
Winner
Hugo Harvey Valdés
Independent or Non-Affiliated Scholar
Revisitando el punto de inflexión interamericano en la Guerra Fría: la crisis dominicana de 1965, la intervención de Estados Unidos y la Fuerza Interamericana de la Paz
Winner
Kyrstin Mallon Andrews
University of California, Irvine
Catching Air: Risk and Embodied Ocean Health Among Dominican Diver Fishermen
Isis Duarte Book Prize
Presented by the Haiti/ Dominican Republic section
Winner
Chelsey L. Kivland
Dartmouth University
Street Sovereigns: Young Men and the Makeshift State in Urban Haiti
Honorable Mention
Ana-Maurine Lara
University of Oregon
Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic
Premio mejor artículo
Presented by the Historia Reciente y Memoria section
Winner
Emilio Crenzel
Universidad de Buenos Aires / CONICET
"The Crimes of the Last Dictatorship in Argentina and its Qualification as Genocide: A Historicization," Global Society, 33:3, 365-381, DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2019.1598944.(2019)
Honorable Mention
Camilo Vicente Ovalle
Investigador independiente
"Política de contrainsurgencia y desaparición forzada en México en la década de 1970." E.I.A.L., Vol. 30 – No 1 (2019)
Honorable Mention
Diego Sempol
Universidad de la República
"Memorias trans y violencia estatal. La Ley Integral para Personas Trans y los debates sobre el pasado reciente en Uruguay." páginas / año 11 – n° 27 Septiembre-Diciembre / ISSN 1851-992X/ 2019
LASA Sección Migraciones Internacionales 2021- Premio 1
Presented by the International Migrations section
Winner
Deisy Del Real
University of Southern California
Liminal Legality and Irregularity: The Fragility and Exclusionary Aspects of Colombia’s Special Legalization Permits for Venezuelan Migrant
LASA Sección Migraciones Internacionales 2021- Premio 2
Presented by the International Migrations section
Honorable Mention
Isabel Gil Everaert
El Colegio de Mexico
The Waiting Regime
LASA Sección Migraciones Internacionales 2021- Premio 3
Presented by the International Migrations section
Honorable Mention
Victoria Finn
Universidad Diego Portales (Chile) and Leiden University (Netherlands))
To Vote or Not to Vote? That is the Question for Many Migrants
Premio para Mejor Artículo
Presented by the Labor Studies section
Winner
Antonio Stecher and Álvaro Soto Roy
Universidad Diego Portales and Universidad Alberto Hurtado
“Crisis and transformation of occupational identities in three sectors (retail, mining, state): contributions to understanding workplace subjectivities in neoliberal Chile”
Honorable Mention
Katherine Sobering
University of North Texas
“The Relational Production of Workplace Equality: The Case of Worker-Recuperated Businesses in Argentina”
Premio para Mejor Texto por un Alumno
Presented by the Labor Studies section
Winner
Domingo Javier Pérez Valenzuela
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
“The capitalist enterprise as territory”
The best article award
Presented by the Labor Studies section
Winner
Merike Blofield and Michael Touchton
University of Miami and University of Miami
Moving Away from Maternalism? The Politics of Parental Leave Reforms in Latin America
Honorable Mention
Francisca Gutiérrez Crocco
Universidad Alberto Hurtado (FEN-COES-UAH)
Contesting the Neoliberal Order through Legal Mobilisation: The Case of Chilean Unions
2021 Frank Bonilla Public Intellectual Award
Presented by the Latino Studies section
Winner
Lourdes Torres and Lorgia Garcia Peña
DePaul University and Harvard University
By understanding the political and economic forces that engender exploitation and injustice as forms of racial and ethnic oppression
LASA LSS Dissertation Award
Presented by the Latino Studies section
Winner
Iliana Yamileth Rodriguez
Emory University
Constructing Mexican Atlanta, 1980-2016
Honorable Mention
Verónica Dávila Ellis
Smith College
Uttering Sonic Dominicanidad: Women and Queer Performers of Música Urbana
LASA LSS Outstanding Article Award
Presented by the Latino Studies section
Winner
Clara E Irazábal Zurita and Alejandro N. Garay-Huaman
University of Maryland and University of Missouri–Kansas City
Garay-Huamán A. N. and Irazábal-Zurita, C. (2020). Latinos in Kansas City: The Political Economy of Placemaking. Journal of Planning Literature XX(X), 1-24.
LASA-LLS Outstanding Book Award
Presented by the Latino Studies section
Winner
Johana Londoño
University at Albany, SUNY
Abstract Barrios: The Crises of Latinx Visibility in Cities. Duke University Press, 2020
Honorable Mention
Marisol Lebrón
University of Texas, Austin
Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence and Resistance in Puerto Rico. University of California Press, 2019.
Honorable Mention
Robb (Robert) Hernández
Fordham University
Archiving an Epidemic: Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde. NYU Press, 2019
Best Article in Social Sciences
Presented by the Mexico section
Winner
Elizabeth O’Brien
The Johns Hopkins University
“The Many Meanings of Aborto: Pregnancy Termination and the Instability of a Medical Category Over Time.” Women’s History Review (Online)
Honorable Mention
Sarah Osten
University of Vermont
“Out of the Shadows: Violence and State Consolidation in Postrevolutionary Mexico.” The Latin Americanist (Vol. 64, No. 2)
Best Article in the Humanities
Presented by the Mexico section
Winner
Gema Kloppe-Santamaría
Loyola University of Chicago
“The Lynching of the Impious: Violence, Politics, and Religion in Postrevolutionary Mexico (1930s–1950s),” The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History (Vol. 77, No. 1)
Honorable Mention
Micah McKay
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
‘Pasto sin fin del basurero’: Trash and Disposal in the Poetry of José Emilio Pacheco.” Latin American Literary Review (Vol. 47, No. 93).
Best Book in Social Sciences
Presented by the Mexico section
Winner
Sarah Luna
Tufts University
Love in the Drug War: Selling Sex and Finding Jesus on the Mexico-US Border. (University of Texas Press)
Honorable Mention
Rocio Gomez
Virginia Commonwealth University
Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs: Mining, Water, and Public Health in Zacatecas, 1835-1946 (University of Nebraska Press)
Honorable Mention
Theodore W. Cohen
Lindenwood University
Finding Afro-Mexico: Race and Nation after the Revolution (Cambridge University Press)
Best Book in the Humanities
Presented by the Mexico section
Winner
Raúl Diego Rivera Hernández
Villanova University
Narratives of Vulnerability in Mexico's War on Drugs (Springer)
Honorable Mention
Jeannette F. Peterson and Kevin Terraciano
University of California, Santa Barbara and University of California, Los Angeles
The Florentine Codex: An Encyclopedia of the Nahua World in Sixteenth-Century Mexico (University of Texas Press)
Honorable Mention
Sonia Robles
Universidad Panamericana
Mexican Waves: Radio Broadcasting Along Mexico’s Northern Border, 1830-1950 (University of Arizona Press)
Best Dissertation
Presented by the Mexico section
Winner
Martha Balaguera Cuervo
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“Citizenship in Transit: Perils and Promises of Crossing Mexico”
Honorable Mention
Abraham Trejo Terreros
Colegio de México
“Los coyotes. Migración y negocios en la frontera norte de México (1920-1964)”
Premio al Mejor libro sobre el siglo XIX
Presented by the Nineteenth Century section
Winner
Ashley Elizabeth Kerr
University of Idaho
Sex, Skulls, Citizens: Gender and Racial Science in Argentina (1860-1910). Vanderbilt University Press, 2020.
PREMIO MEJOR ARTICULO 2021
Presented by the Nineteenth Century section
Winner
Magdalena Candioti
CONICET-Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana “Dr. Emilio Ravignani
“Un manual para formar negros piadosos. Religión, política y raza en la Buenos Aires rosista”. En Guzmán, F y Ghidoli, ML, El asedio a la libertad. Abolición y Post-abolición en el Cono Sur. Buenos Aires, Biblos, 2020
PREMIO MEJOR DISERTACION 2021
Presented by the Nineteenth Century section
Winner
Elizabeth Aislinn O’Brien
Johns Hopkins University and Medicine
Intimate Interventions: The Cultural Politics of Reproductive Surgery in Mexico, 1790-1940. The University of Texas at Austin, 2019.
PREMIO MEJOR DISERTACION 2022
Presented by the Nineteenth Century section
Honorable Mention
Héctor M. Strobel del Moral
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (Postdoctoral researcher)
El ejército liberal durante la revolución de Ayutla y la Reforma, 1854-1861. El Colegio de México, Ciudad de México, 2020.
Flora Tristán Award, For Best Book, LASA Peru 2020
Presented by the Peru section
Winner
Larissa Brewer-García
University of Chicago
Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
Honorable Mention
Marcel Velázquez Castro
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Hijos de la peste: Una historia de las epidemias en el Perú (Taurus, 2020)
José María Arguedas Award, For Best Article 2020
Presented by the Peru section
Winner
Karen B. Graubart
University of Notre Dame
As Slaves and Not Vassals: Interethnic Claims of Freedom and Unfreedom in Colonial Perú”, Población y Sociedad, Vol. 27. No. 2, 2020, 30-53pp.
Honorable Mention
Amanda M. Smith
University of California, Santa Cruz
“Sounds of the Baguazo: Listening of Extractivism in an Intercultural Radio Programme from the Peruvian Amazon” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 2020.
Honorable Mention
Cristina Alcalde
University of Kentucky
“Coloniality, Belonging, and Indigeneity in Peruvian Migration Narratives” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 2020
Premio Blanca G. Silvestrino para un Artículo Sobresaliente en los Estudios Puertorriqueños
Presented by the Puerto Rico section
Winner
Marie Cruz Soto
New York University
“The Making of Viequenses: Militarized Colonialism and Reproductive Rights,” Meridians vol. 19, no. 2 (Oct. 2020): 360-382
Honorable Mention
Adriana Garriga-López
Kalamazoo College
“Debt, Crisis, and Resurgence in Puerto Rico,” Small Axe 62, no. 2 (July 2020): 122-132
Premio Monsivais for Best Article in the Social Sciences
Presented by the Sexualities Studies section
Winner
Anne Rubenstein
York University
A Sentimental and Sexual Education: Men, Sex, and Movie Theaters in Mexico City, 1920–2010
Winner
Patricio Simonetto
University College London UCL
La otra internacional. Prácticas globales y anclajes nacionales de la liberación homosexual en Argentina y México (1967-1984)
Honorable Mention
David Rocha Cortez
Independent Scholar
La cochona ciudad letrada: arte y discursos homoeróticos en Nicaragua
Premio Sylvia Molloy for Best Article in the Humanities
Presented by the Sexualities Studies section
Winner
PJ DiPietro
Syracuse University and PRIGEPP/FLACSO
Ni humanos, ni animales, ni monstruos: la decolonización del cuerpo transgénero
Winner
Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gómez
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Paz’s Pasivo: Thinking Mexicanness from the Bottom
Honorable Mention
Cole Rizki
University of Virginia
Familiar grammars of loss and belonging: curating trans kinship in post-dictatorship Argentina
Mejor Libro en Humanidades
Presented by the Southern Cone Studies section
Winner
Natalia Milanesio
University of Houston
Destape: Sex, Democracy, and Freedom in Postdictatorial Argentina (Pitt Latin American Series)
Best Paper Award
Presented by the Subnational Politics and Society section
Winner
Jessie Bullock
Harvard University
Organized Criminal Groups and Voter Mobilization
Honorable Mention
Thomas R. Vargas
McMaster University
The Political Origins of Education Decentralization
Best Book in Latin American Visual Culture Studies
Presented by the Visual Studies section
Winner
Ángeles Donoso-Macaya
Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY
The Insubordination of Photography: Documentary Practices Under Chile's Dictatorship. Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2020.
Best Essay in Latin American Visual Culture Studies
Presented by the Visual Studies section
Winner
Jessica Gordon-Burroughs
University of Edinburgh
"The Pixelated Afterlife of Nicolás Guillén Landirán: Migratory Forms." JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 59, no. 2 (2020): 23-42. doi:10.1353/cj.2020.0001