2024 Best Book in Amazonian Studies
Presented by the Amazonia section
Winner
Carolina Sá Carvalho
University of Toronto
Traces of the Unseen: Photography, Violence, and Modernization in Early Twentieth-Century Latin America
Honorable Mention
Linda Etchart
Kingston University London
Global Governance of the Environment, Indigenous Peoples and the Rights of Nature
Best Paper in Amazonian Studies
Presented by the Amazonia section
Winner
Livio Silva-Muller and Henrique Sposito
Geneva Graduate Institute and Geneva Graduate Institute
"Which Amazon Problem? Problem-constructions and Transnationalism in Brazilian Presidential Discourse since 1985" publicado en Environmental Politics en 2023
Archives, Libraries and Digital Scholarship Section Award for Best Public Project
Presented by the Archives, Libraries and Digital Scholarship section
Winner
Jesús Alonso-Regalado
University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY)
LACLI: Latin American, Caribbean, Latinx, and Iberian Free Online Resources
Archives, Libraries and Digital Scholarship Section Award for Best Publication
Presented by the Archives, Libraries and Digital Scholarship section
Winner
Amanda M. Smith
University of California, Santa Cruz
Extractivism and the Ecology of Research Infrastructure: Digitizing Precarious Materialities in Iquitos, Perú
Premio Montserrat Ordóñez (libros publicados entre 2020-2021)
Presented by the Colombia section
Winner
Malola Romero Carbonell
Universidad de Murcia
La poesía de Piedad Bonnett. Dentro y fuera del laberinto (Verbum, 2020)
Honorable Mention
Ana María Díaz Burgos
Oberlin College
Tráfico de saberes: agencia femenina, hechicería e inquisición en Cartagena de Indias (1610-1614) (Iberoamericana-Vervuert 2020)
Premio Montserrat Ordóñez (libros publicados entre 2022-2023)
Presented by the Colombia section
Winner
Annie Mendoza
East Stroudsburg University
Colombian Diasporic Identities: Representations in Literature, Film, Theater and Art
Premio 2024 al Mejor Ensayo Académico en Estudios Coloniales de América Latina y el Caribe publicado por un Investigador Avanzado
Presented by the Colonial section
Winner
Carolina Francisca González Undurraga
Universidad de Chile
Mujeres esclavizadas y el uso del partus sequitur ventrem ante la justicia: inscribir la ascendencia materna e intervenir el archivo género-racializado en Chile colonial
Honorable Mention
Larissa Brewer García
University of Chicago
Gender and the Work of Missionary Translation: Back Women Interpreters among the Jesuits in Seventeenth Century Cartagena de Indias
Premio 2024 al Mejor Ensayo Académico en Estudios Coloniales de América Latina y el Caribe publicado por un Investigador Joven
Presented by the Colonial section
Winner
John Carlos Castillo Marquez
University of California, Riverside
Witnesses to Freedom: Paula's Enslavement, Her Family's Freedom Suit, and the Making of a Counterarchive in the South Atlantic World
Honorable Mention
Nelson Fernando González Martínez
Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla -Colombia
Communicating an Empire and Its Many Words: Spanish American Mail, Logistics, and Postal Agents, 1492–1620
Mejor Tesis de Doctorado en Estudios Cubanos
Presented by the Cuba section
Winner
Daniel J. Fernández Guevara
Institute of History-CSIC
Comrades and Internationalists: Forging Identity and Cuban Solidarity with the other Spain, 1902-1961
Honorable Mention
Katia Viera Hernández
Universidad de La Habana
La Habana en escrituras recientes producidas en Cuba. Dazra Novak, Ahmel Echevarría y Jorge Enrique Lage
2023- Mejor ensayo inédito en la categoría Junior
Presented by the Culture, Power and Politics section
Winner
Erich Daniel Luna Jacobs
University of Toronto
A Ch’ixi Philosophy of History
2023- Mejor ensayo inédito en la categoría Senior
Presented by the Culture, Power and Politics section
Winner
Sophie Esch
Rice University
The Animal Turn
Alfred Stepan Lifetime Achievement Award in Defense, Public Security, and Democracy
Presented by the Defense, Public Security & Democracy section
Winner
María Celina Soares D’Araujo
Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
Best article &book chapter
Presented by the Defense, Public Security & Democracy section
Winner
Carolina Sampó and Valeska Tronkoso
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Conicet), Argentina; and Universidad de Santiago de Chile
“Cocaine trafficking from non-traditional ports: examining the cases of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay”, Trends on Organized Crime 26, 235-257 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-021-09441-y
Mejor Artículo Publicado
Presented by the Ecuadorian Studies section
Winner
Marc Becker
Truman State University
The CIA and Creole Anticommunism in Cold War Ecuador: Cold War History 23, no. 3 (August 2023): 363-87
Honorable Mention
Natalia Buitron
University of Cambridge, UK
Competing for the Future: Play, Drama, and Rank in Amazonia" Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology, Volume 66, Issue 4, 26–47
Premio al Mejor Libro
Presented by the Ecuadorian Studies section
Winner
Kim Clark
University of Western Ontario
Conjuring the State: Public Health Encounters in Highland Ecuador, 1908-1945, Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg Press, 2023
Honorable Mention
Christopher Krupa
University of Toronto
A Feast of Flowers: Race, Labor and Postcolonial Capitalism in Ecuador, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022
Honorable Mention
Jennifer Noelle Collins
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Social Movements and Radical Populism in the Andes: Ecuador and Bolivia in Comparative Perspective. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022
Premio 2024 para Estudiantes de Posgrado e Investigadores en Educación Latinoamericana
Presented by the Educación y Políticas Educativas en América Latina section
Winner
Jorge Enrique Delgado
University of Pittsburgh
Formación integral, compromiso social y valores institucionales”, panel “Compromiso ético-social en universidades públicas latinoamericanas
LASA Environment Best Book Prize of 2022
Presented by the Environment Section section
Winner
Sarah T. Hines
University of Oklahoma
Water for All: Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern Bolivia. Oakland, California: University of California Press
Honorable Mention
Amalia Leguizamón
Tulane University
Las semillas del poder: injusticia ambiental en la Argentina sojera, trad. Gerardo Raúl Losada. San Martín, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina: UNSAM Edita
Honorable Mention
Peter Taylor Klein
Bard College
Flooded: Development, Democracy, and Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam. New Brunswick, Camden, and Newark, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press
LASA Environment Best Book Prize of 2023
Presented by the Environment Section section
Winner
Carolina Sá Carvalho
University of Toronto
Traces of the Unseen: Photography, Violence, and Modernization in Early Twentieth-Century Latin America. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press
Honorable Mention
Cindy McCulligh
Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social/ Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), Guadalajara, Mexico.
Sewer of Progress: Corporations, Institutionalized Corruption, and the Struggle for the Santiago River. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press
Honorable Mention
Gisela Heffes
Rice University
Visualizing Loss in Latin America: Biopolitics, Waste, and the Urban Environment, trans. Grady C. Wray. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan
Best Article or Book Chapter
Presented by the Film Studies section
Winner
Carolyn Fornoff
Cornell University
“Greening Mexican Cinema.” Ecocinema Theory and Practice 2, edited by Stephen Rust, Selma Monani, and Seán Cubitt, Routledge, 2023, pp. 34-51
Early Career Award
Presented by the Film Studies section
Winner
Olivia C. Cosentino
Stone Center for Latin American Studies,Tulane University
2024- Best Anthology Prize
Presented by the Haiti/ Dominican Republic section
Winner
Megan Jeanette Myers and Edward Paulino
Iowa State University and City University of New York/John Jay College
The Border of Lights Reader: Bearing Witness to Genocide in the Dominican Republic
Honorable Mention
Brandon R. Byrd and Chelsea Stieber, authors. Nadève Ménard (translator)
Vanderbilt University and The Catholic University of America
Haiti for the Haitians
Article Prize
Presented by the Haiti/ Dominican Republic section
Winner
Jacqueline Lyon
California State University, Long Beach
Engendering “Illegality”: Blackness, citizenship, and Dominico-Haitian motherhood
Winner
Jeffrey S. Kahn
University of California, Davis
Racializing Aesthetics: “Boat People,” Maritime Worlds, and the Metonymy of the Haitian Sloop
Guy Alexandre Prize
Presented by the Haiti/ Dominican Republic section
Winner
Raúl Zecca Castel
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Política de la representación visual: para una (est)ética decolonial. El caso de los braceros haitianos en los cañaverales dominicanos
Isis Duarte Prize
Presented by the Haiti/ Dominican Republic section
Winner
Myriam J.A. Chancy
Scripps College
Harvesting Haiti
Honorable Mention
Rebecca L. Hey-Colón
Temple University
Channeling Knowledges
Premio al Mejor Libro de la sección de Historia Reciente y Memoria
Presented by the Historia Reciente y Memoria section
Winner
Nubia Fernanda Espinosa Moreno
Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica
De damnificados a víctimas. La construcción del problema público de los afectados por la violencia en Colombia (1946-1991)
Honorable Mention
Francesca Lessa
University College London
Los juicios del Cóndor. La coordinación represiva y los crímenes de lesa humanidad en América del Sur
Honorable Mention
Manolo Vela Castañeda
Universidad Iberoamericana
Micropolítica del terror y de la resistencia militantes de alto riesgo, escuadrones de la muerte y centros clandestinos de detención
Categoria Medios , comunicaion y periodismo - Primer Premio
Presented by the Media, Communication & Culture section
Winner
Mireya Márquez Ramírez
Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México
Fleeing Danger for a Better Life? A Social-ecological Study of Internally Displaced Journalists in Mexico
Categoria Medios , comunicaion y periodismo - Segundo Premio
Presented by the Media, Communication & Culture section
Winner
Juan Sebastián Larrosa Fuentes
ITESO, Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara
Representations of Latinos in a Democratic Party Campaign in the United States: Identity Ownership, Narratives, and Values
Categoria Medios , comunicaion y periodismo- Tercer Premio
Presented by the Media, Communication & Culture section
Winner
Abel Somohano Fernández
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Condiciones individuales de producción periodística en medios independientes cubanos
CATEGORÍA COMUNICACIÓN Y CULTURA POPULAR: Primer Premio Mejor Publicación 2024
Presented by the Media, Communication & Culture section
Winner
James A. Dettleff
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Narrativas de empresas de telecomunicación en pandemia para fortalecimiento de marca: análisis de sus spots televisivos durante el confinamiento
CATEGORÍA MEDIOS, COMUNICACIÓN Y PERIODISMO: Primer Premio Mejor Publicación 2024
Presented by the Media, Communication & Culture section
Winner
Marcelino Nieto-Brizio and Mireya Márquez Ramírez
Universidad Iberoamericana
Fleeing Danger for a Better Life? A Social-ecological Study of Internally Displaced Journalists in Mexico
CATEGORÍA MEDIOS, COMUNICACIÓN Y PERIODISMO: Segundo Premio Mejor Publicación 2024
Presented by the Media, Communication & Culture section
Winner
Juan Sebastián Larrosa Fuentes
ITESO, Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara
Representations of Latinos in a Democratic Party Campaign in the United States: Identity Ownership, Narratives, and Values
CATEGORÍA MEDIOS, COMUNICACIÓN Y PERIODISMO: Tercer Premio Mejor Publicación 2024
Presented by the Media, Communication & Culture section
Winner
Abel Somohano Fernández
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Condiciones individuales de producción periodística en medios independientes cubanos
Premio a la Mejor Disertación
Presented by the Mexico section
Winner
Jorge Puma Crespo
Hope College
The Only Correct Line: A Transnational History of French Maoism in Catholic Mexico during the Late Sixties
Honorable Mention
Joel Salvador Herrera
Universidad de California, Los Ángeles
Cultivating Drug Wars: Illicit Markets, Violence, and the State in Mexico
Premio al Mejor Artículo en Ciencias Sociales
Presented by the Mexico section
Winner
Rachel Grace Newman
Colgate University
The Right to a Favor: International Scholarship, Clientelism, and the Class Politics of Merit in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
Premio al Mejor Artículo en Humanidades
Presented by the Mexico section
Winner
Carolyn Fornoff
Cornell University
Reflexive Extractivist Aesthetics
Honorable Mention
Miguel A. Valerio
Washington University in St. Louis
Cultura afrobarroca mexicana: Soberanía negra en las calles de la ciudad de México, 1610
Premio al Mejor Libro en Ciencias Sociales
Presented by the Mexico section
Winner
Janice K. Gallagher
Rutgers University
The Search for Mexico’s Disappeared
Premio al Mejor Libro en Humanidades
Presented by the Mexico section
Winner
Danielle Terrazas Williams
University of Leeds
The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico
Honorable Mention
Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón
Oberlin College
Mexico Interrupted. Labor, Idleness, and the Economic Imaginary of Independence
Best paper
Presented by the Migraciones, Desplazamientos y Movilidades section
Winner
Pia Berghoff
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Gendering the temporalities of transit migration: Biographical temporalities and maintenance time. The case of migrant women waiting in Tijuana, Mexico.
2024 Best Dissertation Award
Presented by the Nineteenth Century section
Winner
Manuel Alejandro Bautista-González
University of Oxford
Gold and Silver Chains. The New Orleans Specie Market under International Bimetallism, 1839-1861.” Ph.D. dissertation in History, Columbia University in the City of New York, 2023
Premio al Mejor Artículo sobre el siglo XIX
Presented by the Nineteenth Century section
Winner
Nicolás Sánchez-Rodríguez
Princeton University
"José María Vergara y Vergara, el agiotista: la invención del cuerpo crediticio de la nación en los cuadros de costumbres". Revista Letral, no, 31, 2023, 51-77
Honorable Mention
Ainaí Morales Pino
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
"Los feminismos en competencia en Zarela (novela feminista) de Leonor Espinoza Mendez (1910?): Más allá de la utopía, la conciliación y la excepcionalidad." Revista Chilena de Literatura. Nov 2023 N.18
Honorable Mention
Alejandro Quintero-Mächler
Harvard University
"Las palabras y las cosas: el debate sobre el lugar de las ideas en Hispanoamérica (1851- 1854). Revista de Historia de América No. 164
Premio Mejor Libro 2024
Presented by the Nineteenth Century section
Winner
Elizabeth O’ Brien
University of California, Los Angeles
Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-1940 The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill, 2023
Honorable Mention
Ainaí Morales-Pino
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Éticas y estéticas de la profanación: el entre siglos más allá del modernismo (perúvenezuela, 1880-1914) Editorial cuarto propio, 2023
Honorable Mention
Martín Bowen
New York University, Abu Dhabi
The Age of Dissent: Revolution and the Power of Communication in Chile, 1780–1833 University of New Mexico Press, 2023
Premio Flora Tristán, LASA Perú 2023
Presented by the Peru section
Winner
Jelke boesten and Lurgio Gavilán
King's College London and Universidad Nacional de San Cristóbal de Huamanga
Perros y promos: Memoria, violencia y afecto
Honorable Mention
Andrés Rios Molina
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Locura y psiquiatría en Perú, 1859-1947: Instituciones, miradas, juicios y prejuicios
Premio José María Arguedas, LASA Perú, 2023
Presented by the Peru section
Winner
Claudia Angela Arteaga Olórtegui
Scripps College
Función poética y política en la poesía quechua peruana escrita por mujeres
Honorable Mention
Alfredo Escudero Villanueva
Florida International University
The New Age of Andeans: Chronological Age, Indigenous Labor, and the Making of Spanish Colonial Rule
Honorable Mention
Daniel Carrillo Jara
Muhlenberg College
Escritor / Qillqaq: The Representation of Peruvian Literature in the Spanish and Quechua Wikipedias
Premio Legado y Trayectoria de la Sección LASA Perú 2024
Presented by the Peru section
Winner
Kimberly Theidon and Christine Hunefeldt
Tufts University and University of California, San Diego
2023 Best Political Institutions Paper
Presented by the Political Institutions section
Winner
Silvia Alejandra Otero Bahamon
Universidad del Rosario
Dependent elites: the role of elite-citizenship linkages in inequality reduction at the city level
Honorable Mention
Guillermo Toral Martínez
IE University
Can anti-corruption policies curb political budget cycles? Evidence from public employment in Brazil
Donna Lee Van Cott Best Book Award 2023
Presented by the Political Institutions section
Winner
Rachel Alyssa Schwartz
University of Oklahoma
Undermining the State from Within: The Institutional Legacies of Civil War in Central America
Honorable Mention
Ezequiel Gonzáles-Ocantos, Paula Muñoz, Nara de Carvalho Pavao, and Viviana Baraybar Hidalgo
University of Oxford, Universidad del Pacífico, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco and University of Oxford- Nuffield College
Prosecutors, Voters, and the Criminalisation of Corruption in Latin America: the Case of Lava Jato
Honorable Mention
Sandra Botero Cabrera
Universidad del Rosario , Colombia
Courts that Matter: Activists, Judges, and the Politics of Rights Enforcement
Carlos Monsiváis Prize
Presented by the Sexualities Studies section
Winner
Manuel R. Cuellar
George Washington University
Los mecos de Veracruz: Queer Gestures and the Performance of Nahua Indigeneity
Honorable Mention
Laura Recalde Burgueño
Universidad de la República, Uruguay / anguirú: laboratorio disidente
La experiencia compartida de la precariedad: La olla popular trans
Sylvia Molloy Prize
Presented by the Sexualities Studies section
Winner
Cole Rizki
University of Virginia
Gore Aesthetics: Chilean Necroliberalism and Travesti Resistance
Honorable Mention
Javier Fernández-Galeano and Mir Yarfitz
Universitat de València and Wake Forest University
Serious Maricas and Their Male Concubines: Seeking Trans History and Intimacy in Argentine Police and Prison Records, 1921–1945
Premio al Mejor Artículo de Ciencias Sociales
Presented by the Venezuelan Studies section
Winner
Verónica Zubillaga y Rebecca Hanson
Universidad Simón Bolívar and University of Florida
Shouting, Scolding, Gossip, and Whispers: Mothers’ Responses to Armed Actors and Militarization in Two Caracas Barrios
Honorable Mention
Maryhen Jiménez
University of Oxford
Contesting Autocracy: Repression and Opposition Coordination in Venezuela
Premio al Mejor Artículo sobre Venezuela (Humanidades)
Presented by the Venezuelan Studies section
Winner
Aaron Coy Moulton
Stephen F. Austin State University
The Counter-Revolution's Patron: Rafael Trujillo versus Venezuela's Acción Democrática Governments, 1945–8
ALAA/LASA-VCS Afro Latin American/Afro-Latinx Scholarship Prize
Presented by the Visual Culture Studies section
Winner
Matthew F. Rarey
Oberlin College and Conservatory
Leave No Mark: Blackness and Inscription in the Inquisitorial Archive,” from Black Modernisms in the Transatlantic World, eds. Steven Nelson and Huey Copeland. (National Gallery, 2023)