Prêmios da Seção 2025

LASA "Archives" Section Award for Best Public Project
Apresentado pela Seção de Archives, Libraries and Digital Scholarship

Vencedor

Alejandro Martínez
Universidad Diego Portales
Archivo Presidente Ricardo Lagos

Michael Jimenez 2023-2024
Apresentado pela Seção de Colombia

Vencedor

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

Menção Honrosa

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
Apresentado pela Seção de Colonial

Vencedor

David Eduardo Tavárez
Vassar College
Rethinking Zapotec Time: Cosmology, Ritual, and Resistance in Colonial Mexico (University of Texas Press, 2022)

Menção Honrosa

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
Apresentado pela Seção de Culture, Power and Politics

Vencedor

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
Apresentado pela Seção de Culture, Power and Politics

Vencedor

Kristin Skrabut
Tufts University
WhatsApp with the State: From E-Governance to E-Clientelism in Urban Peru

Economics & Politics Section Book Award
Apresentado pela Seção de Economics and Politics

Vencedor

María Belén Fernández Milmanda
Trinity College
Agrarian Elites and Democracy in Latin America. Cambridge University Press, 2024

Menção Honrosa

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

Menção Honrosa

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
Apresentado pela Seção de Ecuadorian Studies

Vencedor

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
Apresentado pela Seção de Ecuadorian Studies

Vencedor

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
Apresentado pela Seção de Environment

Vencedor

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

Menção Honrosa

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

Menção Honrosa

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
Apresentado pela Seção de Environment

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Andrea Marston
Rutgers University
Subterranean matters: Cooperative mining and resource nationalism in plurinational Bolivia. Durham and London: Duke University Press

Menção Honrosa

Carolyn Fornoff
Cornell University
Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change. Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press

Menção Honrosa

Maron Greenleaf
Dartmouth College
Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon. Durham and London: Duke University Press

Best Article or Book Chapter
Apresentado pela Seção de Film Studies

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Nilo Couret
University of Michigan
Parting Glances - The Posthumous Coutinho

Menção Honrosa

Samuel Carter
Dartmouth College
The Affordances of the Acousmatic: Questioning Argentineness in ‘El futuro perfecto’

Early Career Award
Apresentado pela Seção de Film Studies

Vencedor

Tess Renker
Georgetown University

Premio Elsa Chaney and Helen Safa
Apresentado pela Seção de Gender and Feminist Studies

Vencedor

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

Menção Honrosa

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
Apresentado pela Seção de Gender and Feminist Studies

Vencedor

María Inés Almeida Godinho
Independent
Webserie “Não sou uma imagem – desconstruindo representações sociais midiáticas”. (Webserie documental / Brasil / 58’ (04 episódios) / Livre)

Article Prize
Apresentado pela Seção de Haiti/ Dominican Republic

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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

Vencedor

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

Menção Honrosa

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

Menção Honrosa

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

Menção Honrosa

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
Apresentado pela Seção de Haiti/ Dominican Republic

Vencedor

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
Apresentado pela Seção de Health, Science and Technology

Vencedor

Hisrael Passarelli Araujo
Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
The impact of loneliness on health outcomes among Brazilian adults

Menção Honrosa

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
Apresentado pela Seção de Historia Reciente y Memoria

Menção Honrosa

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
Apresentado pela Seção de Historia Reciente y Memoria

Vencedor

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

Menção Honrosa

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

Menção Honrosa

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
Apresentado pela Seção de Labor Studies

Vencedor

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)

Menção Honrosa

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
Apresentado pela Seção de Labor Studies

Vencedor

Jean Francois Mayer
Concordia University 
Resistance to Oppression in Informal Work Domestic Workers’ Strategies against Workplace Violence in Latin America

Menção Honrosa

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

Menção Honrosa

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
Apresentado pela Seção de Latinx Studies

Vencedor

Michelle Vasquez Ruiz
University of California, Los Angeles
Dismantling Settler Crimmigration Histories of Indigenous Transborder Mobility

Vencedor

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
Apresentado pela Seção de Media, Communication & Culture

Vencedor

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
Apresentado pela Seção de Media, Communication & Culture

Vencedor

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
Apresentado pela Seção de Media, Communication & Culture

Vencedor

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
Apresentado pela Seção de Mexico

Vencedor

Marissa L. Nichols
Emory University
Nurses, Indigenous Authorities, and Rural Health in Oaxaca, Mexico, 1934-1970.

Menção Honrosa

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
Apresentado pela Seção de Mexico

Vencedor

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
Apresentado pela Seção de Mexico

Vencedor

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

Menção Honrosa

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
Apresentado pela Seção de Mexico

Vencedor

Ieva Jusionyte
Brown University
Exit Wounds: How America\'s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border (University of California Press).

Menção Honrosa

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
Apresentado pela Seção de Mexico

Vencedor

Carolyn Fornoff
Cornell University
Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change. Vanderbilt University Press. January 2024

Menção Honrosa

Amy E. Wright
St. Louis University
Serial Mexico: Storytelling across Media, from Nationhood to Now. Vanderbilt University Press. July 2023

Menção Honrosa

Jorge Quintana Navarrete
Dartmouth College
Biocosmism. Vitality and the Utopian Imagination in Postrevolutionary Mexico. Vanderbilt University Press. Pril 2024.

Menção Honrosa

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
Apresentado pela Seção de Migraciones, Desplazamientos y Movilidades

Vencedor

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

Menção Honrosa

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
Apresentado pela Seção de Nineteenth Century

Vencedor

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
Apresentado pela Seção de Nineteenth Century

Vencedor

Corinna Zeltsman
Princeton University
"Printing Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Latin America and the Caribbean". Journal of Social History 58:2, 2024

Menção Honrosa

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
Apresentado pela Seção de Nineteenth Century

Vencedor

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
Apresentado pela Seção de Nineteenth Century

Vencedor

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
Apresentado pela Seção de Political Institutions

Vencedor

Gonzalo Contreras Aguirre
Tulane University
Clientelistic Dynamics in Programmatic Settings: Evidence from Chile

Donna Lee Van Cott Best Book Award 2024
Apresentado pela Seção de Political Institutions

Vencedor

David Andrew De Micheli
University of Utah 
Back to Black: Racial Reclassification and Political Identity Formation in Brazil

Vencedor

María Belén Fernández Milmanda
Trinity College
Agrarian Elites and Democracy in Latin America

Carlos Monsiváis Prize
Apresentado pela Seção de Sexualities Studies

Vencedor

Ernesto Cuba
University of Washington
"I names myself after her": Renaming strategies in a community of transgender women of the city of Lima, Per

Menção Honrosa

Nathalie Bouzaglo
Northwestern University
The Marimacho Invasion: Sports, Masculine Femininity, and Fashion in Fin-de-Siecle Mexico and Argentina

Sylvia Molloy Prize
Apresentado pela Seção de Sexualities Studies

Vencedor

Elena Valdez
Christopher Newport University
Decolonial Excesses: Racial and Sexual Dissidence in Johan Mijail’s Amor Vegetal

Menção Honrosa

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)
Apresentado pela Seção de Southern Cone Studies

Vencedor

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

Menção Honrosa

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
Apresentado pela Seção de Southern Cone Studies

Vencedor

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
Apresentado pela Seção de Southern Cone Studies

Vencedor

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
Apresentado pela Seção de Southern Cone Studies

Vencedor

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
Apresentado pela Seção de Student Section LASA

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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
Apresentado pela Seção de Student Section LASA

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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
Apresentado pela Seção de Subnational Politics and Society

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Benjamin Bradlow
Princeton University
Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in Sao Paulo and Johannesburg

Best Paper Award
Apresentado pela Seção de Subnational Politics and Society

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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
Apresentado pela Seção de Venezuelan

Vencedor

Sean Nesselrode Moncada
Rhode Island School of Design
Refined Material: Petroculture and Modernity in Venezuela. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023

Menção Honrosa

Amy Penfield
University of Bristol
Predatory Economies: The Sanema and the Socialist State in Contemporary Amazonia, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2023.