LASA "Archives" Section Award for Best Public Project
Presented by the Archives, Libraries and Digital Scholarship section
Winner
Alejandro Martínez
Universidad Diego Portales
Archivo Presidente Ricardo Lagos
Michael Jimenez 2023-2024
Presented by the Colombia section
Winner
Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez, Sebastián Díaz Angel, Lucía Duque Muñoz, and Anthony Picón Rodríguez
University of Texas at Austin, Razón Cartográfica: Red de Historia de las Geografías y Cartografías de Colombia, Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Gobernación de Casanare.
Battles for Belonging Women Journalists, Political Culture, and the Paradoxes of Inclusion in Colombia, 1943-1970. Rowman&Littlefield / Lexington Books
Honorable Mention
Sandra Sánchez-Lopez
Universidad de Los Andes
Entre líneas: una historia de Colombia en mapas. (Ediciones Uniandes, Editorial Planeta)
2025 Best Book in Colonial Latin American Studies
Presented by the Colonial section
Winner
David Eduardo Tavárez
Vassar College
Rethinking Zapotec Time: Cosmology, Ritual, and Resistance in Colonial Mexico (University of Texas Press, 2022)
Honorable Mention
John David Hermogenes Blanco
University of California, San Diego
Counter–Hispanization in the Colonial Philippines. Literature, Law, Religion, and Native Custom (Amsterdam University Press, 2023
2024- Mejor ensayo inédito en la categoría Junior
Presented by the Culture, Power and Politics section
Winner
Diana Barrero
Universidad de Toronto
Memory and the Nation: The Aesthetization of Violence in Post-Conflict Colombia.
2024- Mejor ensayo inédito en la categoría Senior
Presented by the Culture, Power and Politics section
Winner
Kristin Skrabut
Tufts University
WhatsApp with the State: From E-Governance to E-Clientelism in Urban Peru
Economics & Politics Section Book Award
Presented by the Economics and Politics section
Winner
María Belén Fernández Milmanda
Trinity College
Agrarian Elites and Democracy in Latin America. Cambridge University Press, 2024
Honorable Mention
Christopher Chambers-Ju
The University of Texas at Arlington
Mobilizing Teachers: Education Politics and the New Labor Movement in Latin America. Cambridge University Press, 2024
Honorable Mention
Juan A. Bogliaccini
Universidad Católica del Uruguay
Empowering Labor: Leftist Approaches to Wage Policy in Unequal Democracies. Cambridge University Press, 2024
Premio al mejor artículo: Dolores Cacuango
Presented by the Ecuadorian Studies section
Winner
María Moreno
University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
Calling Racism by Its Name: Forms of Violence in The Articulation or Omission of Racism in Ecuador. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2024
Premio al mejor libro: Nelson Estupiñán-Bass
Presented by the Ecuadorian Studies section
Winner
Michael Handelsman
University of Tennessee
Desaprender para volver a ser: Apuestas decoloniales desde y con voces afro del Ecuador y Colombia, Ediciones Abya-Yala, 2024
LASA Environment Best Article Prize of 2024
Presented by the Environment section
Winner
Damian Clavel and Susanna B. Hecht
University of Zurich and University of California, Los Angeles
“Colonial Exiles: The Tambora Volcanic Explosion, Environmental History, and Swiss Immigration to Nova Friburgo, Brazil, 1815–1821.” Hispanic America Historical Review, vol. 104, no. 4, 2024, pp. 551-586
Honorable Mention
Charlotte Rogers
University of Virginia
“A Multispecies Caribbean: The Aesthetics of Ecological Reinvention in Art by Dhara Rivera.” Small Axe, vol. 28, no. 1, 2024, pp. 20-38
Honorable Mention
Pablo Lapegna, Johana Kunin, and Tomás Palmisano
University of Georgia; IDAES, UNSAM-CONICET and CONICET – Universidad de Buenos Aires
“Between Regulation and Practice: Situated Pesticide Governance in Argentina.” Studies in Comparative International Development, vol. 59, 2024, pp. 288-312
LASA Environment Best Book Prize of 2024
Presented by the Environment section
Winner
Andrea Marston
Rutgers University
Subterranean matters: Cooperative mining and resource nationalism in plurinational Bolivia. Durham and London: Duke University Press
Honorable Mention
Carolyn Fornoff
Cornell University
Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change. Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press
Honorable Mention
Maron Greenleaf
Dartmouth College
Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon. Durham and London: Duke University Press
Best Article or Book Chapter
Presented by the Film Studies section
Winner
Nilo Couret
University of Michigan
Parting Glances - The Posthumous Coutinho
Honorable Mention
Samuel Carter
Dartmouth College
The Affordances of the Acousmatic: Questioning Argentineness in ‘El futuro perfecto’
Early Career Award
Presented by the Film Studies section
Winner
Tess Renker
Georgetown University
Premio Elsa Chaney and Helen Safa
Presented by the Gender and Feminist Studies section
Winner
Celeste Mariel Jerez
Instituto Interdisciplinario de Estudios de Género, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA
25 años de politización del sufrimiento en el parto en Argentina: aportes de los movimientos de mujeres y feministas a la crítica de la violencia gineco-obstétrica
Honorable Mention
Madison Felman-Penagotacos
Middlebury College
La Difunta Correa in Camila Sosa Villada’s Las malas: An Archetype of Travesti Maternity, Folk Sainthood, and the Argentine National Identity
Premio Marielle Franco
Presented by the Gender and Feminist Studies section
Winner
María Inés Almeida Godinho
Independent
Webserie “Não sou uma imagem – desconstruindo representações sociais midiáticas”. (Webserie documental / Brasil / 58’ (04 episódios) / Livre)
Article Prize
Presented by the Haiti/ Dominican Republic section
Winner
Bianca Dang
University of Washington
"I Dont Know what will be my Lot”: Transnational Migration and Unfree Labor in Early America." The Journal of the Civil War Era, Volume 14, Number 4, December 2024, pp. 441-462
Winner
Christina C. Davidson
University of Southern California
"In the Shadow of Haiti: US Black Internationalism in the Dominican Republic, 1860–1904." The Journal of the Civil War Era, Volume 14, Number 4, December 2024, pp. 487-511
Honorable Mention
Karen Richman and Elizabeth McAllister
University of Notre Dame and Wesleyan University
"Between Catholic, Vodou, and Protestant: Dynamics of Identity, Belonging, Transnational Migration, and Religious Pluralism". In Joseph, Celucien L. , and Lewis A. Clorméus , eds. Evangelicals, Catholics, and Vodouyizan in Haiti: The Challengesof Living T
Honorable Mention
Lauren Derby
University of California, Los Angeles
"Stealing the Citadel Icons of Nationhood and Memories of Theft in Haitian Narratives of Kout Kouto." New West Indian Guide 98 (2024) 1–39
Honorable Mention
Masaya Llavaneras Blanco
Huron University
“DO YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THIS?” Critical Feminist Ethics of Care as a Project of Unsettling." In Decentering Epistemologies and Challenging Privilege: Critical Care Ethics Perspectives, 2024, pp. 159–75
Guy Alexandre Prize
Presented by the Haiti/ Dominican Republic section
Winner
Ana S. Q. Liberato
University of Kentucky
Deysi, Gender, and Violence: Making a Life Under Democracy and Dictatorship
Premio al ensayo de estudiantes de posgrado
Presented by the Health, Science and Technology section
Winner
Hisrael Passarelli Araujo
Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
The impact of loneliness on health outcomes among Brazilian adults
Honorable Mention
Paola Sesia and Lina Berrio Palomo
CIESAS
Indigenous midwifery revisited in Covid-19 times. The making of global maternal health and some anthropological lessons from Southern Mexico
Premio a la Mejor Tesis Doctoral
Presented by the Historia Reciente y Memoria section
Honorable Mention
Michael L. Stephens
Lenoir-Rhyne University
“The Contradictions of Gay Tourism: The Neoliberal Politics of LGBTQ+ Rights in Cartagena de Indias”. Binghamton University, PhD in Sociology, 2024
Premio al Mejor Artículo de la sección de Historia Reciente y Memoria
Presented by the Historia Reciente y Memoria section
Winner
Martina Eva García Correa
Universidad de la República
“Construir una memoria posible y transformadora. La Tablada, un sitio de memoria en la periferia montevideana”. Folia Histórica del Nordeste 45 (2022): 199-228. https://doi.org/10.30972/fhn.0456305
Honorable Mention
Mariana Achugar y Gabriela Fried Amilivia
Universidad de la República and California State University Los Angeles
“Fifty Years of Secrecy: The Politics of Oblivion and Perpetuation of the Dictatorship’s Impunity in Contemporary Uruguay”. American Behavioral Scientist 68, núm. 12 (2024): 1616–35. https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642241267897
Honorable Mention
Viviane Borges
Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina
“A muralha cinzenta e o pórtico majestoso: o processo de patrimonialização do Complexo Penitenciário do Carandiru”. Tempo, 28(3) (2022): 241–262. https://doi.org/10.1590/TEM-1980-542X2022v280312
LASA Labor Studies Section Prize, Best Article or Book Chapter of 2024- Postgraduate
Presented by the Labor Studies section
Winner
Lucia Bachoer
Universidad de Buenos Aires
La accion colectiva en las plataformas digitales. Un estudio sobre la participacion y las percepciones de repartidores del Area Metropolitana de Buenos Aires (2020-2022)
Honorable Mention
Andres Rodrigues Morales
Universidad de los Andes
Una propuesta para convertirnos en detectives espaciales del derecho laboral: hacia una espacialización del derecho del trabajo
LASA Labor Studies Section Prize, Best Article or Book Chapter of 2024- Professor or investigator doctor
Presented by the Labor Studies section
Winner
Jean Francois Mayer
Concordia University
Resistance to Oppression in Informal Work Domestic Workers’ Strategies against Workplace Violence in Latin America
Honorable Mention
Antonio Aravena Carrasco, José Ricardo Ramalho and Mauricio Rombaldi
Universidad Diego Portales, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and Universidade Federal da Paraiba
Sindicatos y movimiento de trabajadores y trabajadoras en América Latina en el siglo XXI
Honorable Mention
Leda Pérez and Andrea Gandolfi
Universidad del Pacifico
From dead letter to functional policy? Domestic workers’ rights and “disformality” in Peru
Latinx Studies Section Dissertation Award
Presented by the Latinx Studies section
Winner
Michelle Vasquez Ruiz
University of California, Los Angeles
Dismantling Settler Crimmigration Histories of Indigenous Transborder Mobility
Winner
Veronica Valencia Gonzalez
University of South Carolina
Global Influences, Local Realities: Unraveling Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Michoacán
CATEGORÍA MEDIOS, COMUNICACIÓN Y PERIODISMO: Primer Premio Mejor Publicación 2025
Presented by the Media, Communication & Culture section
Winner
María Grisel Salazar Rebolledo and Rubén Arnoldo González
Universidad Iberoamericana and Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
Públicos imaginados: la concepción de los periodistas mexicanos sobre sus audiencias desde la perspectiva de roles profesionales
CATEGORÍA MEDIOS, COMUNICACIÓN Y PERIODISMO: Segundo Premio Mejor Publicación 2025
Presented by the Media, Communication & Culture section
Winner
Cosette Celecia Pérez and Julio Juárez Gámiz
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
From censorship to disinformation: Cuba’s official discourse on contentious activism
CATEGORÍA MEDIOS, COMUNICACIÓN Y PERIODISMO: Tercer Premio Mejor Publicación 2025
Presented by the Media, Communication & Culture section
Winner
Jessica Retis and Lourdes Miriam Cueva Chacón
University of Arizona and San Diego State University
¿Qué pasa with American News Media? How Digital-Native Latinx News Serves Community Information Needs Using Messaging Apps
Premio a la Mejor Disertación Doctoral
Presented by the Mexico section
Winner
Marissa L. Nichols
Emory University
Nurses, Indigenous Authorities, and Rural Health in Oaxaca, Mexico, 1934-1970.
Honorable Mention
Verónica Valencia González
University of California, Irvine
Global Influences, Local Realities: Unraveling Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Michoacán
Premio al Mejor Artículo en Ciencias Sociales
Presented by the Mexico section
Winner
Julie M. Weise and Christoph Rass
University of Oregon, USA and Osnabrück University, Germany
"Migrating Concepts: The Transatlantic Origins of the Bracero Program, 1919–42”. The American Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 1. March 2024
Premio al Mejor Artículo en Humanidades
Presented by the Mexico section
Winner
Alejandro Quintero Mächler
Harvard University
“Autopsy, Patrimony, and a Christianized Reforma: Manuel Ramírez Aparicio’s Mexican Conventual History (1861-1862)”.Hispanic American Historical Review. January 2024
Honorable Mention
Ana Romero Valderrama
University of Texas at Arlington
“Sangre revuelta, virtud y civilización: usos políticos de las ascendencias asociadas a Vicente Guerrero”. Historia Mexicana (LXXIII, 2-290). December 2023
Premio al Mejor Libro en Ciencias Sociales
Presented by the Mexico section
Winner
Ieva Jusionyte
Brown University
Exit Wounds: How America\'s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border (University of California Press).
Honorable Mention
Elizabeth O\'Brien
University of California, Los Angeles
Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-1940 (University of North Carolina Press)
Premio al Mejor Libro en Humanidades
Presented by the Mexico section
Winner
Carolyn Fornoff
Cornell University
Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change. Vanderbilt University Press. January 2024
Honorable Mention
Amy E. Wright
St. Louis University
Serial Mexico: Storytelling across Media, from Nationhood to Now. Vanderbilt University Press. July 2023
Honorable Mention
Jorge Quintana Navarrete
Dartmouth College
Biocosmism. Vitality and the Utopian Imagination in Postrevolutionary Mexico. Vanderbilt University Press. Pril 2024.
Honorable Mention
Kevin M. Anzzolin
Christopher Newport University
Guardians of Discourse: Journalism and Literature in Porfirian Mexico. University of Nebraska Press. May 2024
Premio a Jóvenes Investigadores
Presented by the Migraciones, Desplazamientos y Movilidades section
Winner
Dayri Jaruny Flores Ramírez
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica
Obstáculos y retos en la integración de migrantes en México: la perspectiva de las Organizaciones de la Sociedad Civil
Honorable Mention
Verónica Valencia González
University of South Carolina
Survival on the Move: Forced Internal Migration Due to Gender-Based and Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Michoacán
Best Doctoral Thesis Award 2025
Presented by the Nineteenth Century section
Winner
Jason Ahlenius
New York University
“The Limits of Freedom: The Politics of Unfree Labor and Race on Nineteenth-Century Mexico’s Borderlands, 1821-1915”
Premio al Mejor Artículo sobre el siglo XIX
Presented by the Nineteenth Century section
Winner
Corinna Zeltsman
Princeton University
"Printing Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Latin America and the Caribbean". Journal of Social History 58:2, 2024
Honorable Mention
Brendan Lanctot
University of Puget Sound
"Civic Festivals, Popular Spectacles, and the Art of Drawing Republics". Publicado en Agnes Lugo-Ortiz y Graciela Montaldo (eds.), The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Nineteenth Century Latin America. Londres: Routledge, 2024
Premio al Mejor Libro 2025- Historia y Ciencias Sociales
Presented by the Nineteenth Century section
Winner
Marcel Martín Velázquez Castro
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Cuerpos vulnerados. Servidumbre infantil y anticlericalismo en el Perú (1840-1920). Taurus, 2024
Premio al Mejor Libro 2025- Humanidades
Presented by the Nineteenth Century section
Winner
Sarah Moody
University of Alabama
Las Raras: Feminine Style, Intellectual Networks, and Women Writers during Spanish-American Modernismo. Vanderbilt University Press, 2024
2024 Best Political Institutions Paper
Presented by the Political Institutions section
Winner
Gonzalo Contreras Aguirre
Tulane University
Clientelistic Dynamics in Programmatic Settings: Evidence from Chile
Donna Lee Van Cott Best Book Award 2024
Presented by the Political Institutions section
Winner
David Andrew De Micheli
University of Utah
Back to Black: Racial Reclassification and Political Identity Formation in Brazil
Winner
María Belén Fernández Milmanda
Trinity College
Agrarian Elites and Democracy in Latin America
Carlos Monsiváis Prize
Presented by the Sexualities Studies section
Winner
Ernesto Cuba
University of Washington
"I names myself after her": Renaming strategies in a community of transgender women of the city of Lima, Per
Honorable Mention
Nathalie Bouzaglo
Northwestern University
The Marimacho Invasion: Sports, Masculine Femininity, and Fashion in Fin-de-Siecle Mexico and Argentina
Sylvia Molloy Prize
Presented by the Sexualities Studies section
Winner
Elena Valdez
Christopher Newport University
Decolonial Excesses: Racial and Sexual Dissidence in Johan Mijail’s Amor Vegetal
Honorable Mention
Mir Yarfitz
Wake Forest University
La Bella Otero’s Overdetermined Anality: Tales of Sexual Inversion in Early Twentieth-Century Buenos Aire
Mejor artículo científico (Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales)
Presented by the Southern Cone Studies section
Winner
Begoña Alberdi
Columbia University
Mil fórmulas de cocina “La Negra”: Labour, Gender, and Race in Argentina’s Meat Industry, 1917–1940. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569325.2024.2303420
Honorable Mention
Sam Carter
Dartmouth College
The Affordances of the Acousmatic: Questioning Argentineness in El futuro perfecto. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cj.2024.a934545
Mejor libro de Ciencias Sociales
Presented by the Southern Cone Studies section
Winner
Patricio Simonetto
University of Leeds
A Body of One’s Own: A Trans History of Argentina (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2024). https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477328606/
Mejor libro de Humanidades
Presented by the Southern Cone Studies section
Winner
Cristián Opazo
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Rímel y gel. El teatro de las fiestas under (Santiago: Metales Pesados, 2024). https://servicios.ryasa.cl/EcommerceMetalesPesados/ProductDetail.aspx?ISBN=9789566203735
Mejor tesis doctoral
Presented by the Southern Cone Studies section
Winner
Julieta Karol Kabalin Campos
Universidad de Córdoba
Del Río de La Plata al mar Caribe. Derivas raciales en narrativas latinoamericanas del siglo XXI. (Universidad de Córdoba, 2024)
LASA Student Section Paper Award 2024
Presented by the Student Section LASA section
Winner
Ana Lucia Pelaez Echeverría
University of Cambridge
Protracted conflicts against hydroelectric facilities: A content analysis of media frames in Guatemala
LASA Student Section Paper Award 2025
Presented by the Student Section LASA section
Winner
Anderson da Silva Soares
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Discursos E Representações do Corpo Durante A Ditadura Militar no Brasil (1968-1979)
Best Book in Subnational Politics and Society
Presented by the Subnational Politics and Society section
Winner
Benjamin Bradlow
Princeton University
Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in Sao Paulo and Johannesburg
Best Paper Award
Presented by the Subnational Politics and Society section
Winner
Gonzalo Contreras
Tulane University
“Outsourcing Machines. How Programmatic Parties Include Clientelistic Strategies”, Comparative Political Studies, 2024
Premio Fernando Coronil 2024 al Mejor Libro sobre Venezuela
Presented by the Venezuelan section
Winner
Sean Nesselrode Moncada
Rhode Island School of Design
Refined Material: Petroculture and Modernity in Venezuela. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023
Honorable Mention
Amy Penfield
University of Bristol
Predatory Economies: The Sanema and the Socialist State in Contemporary Amazonia, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2023.