Awards, Fellowships, & Prizes

Conference on Latin American History

As announced at its luncheon on January 4, 2008 at the American Historical Association in Washington, D.C., the Conference on Latin American History recognized the superb achievement of the following scholars:

The Bolton-Johnson Prize (For best book in English on any significant aspect of Latin American History [$1,000 award]):

Steve J. Stern, Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet's Chile, 1973-1988 (Duke University Press, 2006)

The Conference on Latin American History Prize (For most distinguished article published other than in HAHR or The Americas [$200 award])

Lyman Johnson and Zephyr Frank, "Cities and Wealth in the South Atlantic: Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro before 1860," Comparative Studies in Society and History 48:3 (July 2006): 634-668

Honorable Mention: Barbara Weinstein, "Inventing the 'Mulher Paulista': Politics, Rebellion and the Gendering of Brazilian Regional Identities," The Journal of Women's History 18.1 (2006): 22-49.

The Tibesar Prize (For most distinguished article in The Americas [$200 award]):

Leo Garofalo, "Conjuring with Coca and the Inca: The Andeanization of Lima's Afro-Peruvian Ritual Specialists, 1580-1690," The Americas 63:1 (July, 2006): 53-80

Honorable Mention: Willie Hiatt, "Flying 'Cholo': Incas, Airplanes, and the Construction of Andean Modernity in 1920s Cuzco, Peru," The Americas 63:3 (January, 2007): 327-58.

The James Alexander Robertson Memorial Prize (For most distinguished article in

Hispanic American Historical Review [$200 award]):

Matthew O'Hara, "Stone, Mortar, and Memory: Church Construction and Communities in Late Colonial Mexico City," Hispanic American Historical Review 2006 86:4 (2006) 647-680

Howard Francis Cline Memorial Prize (Conferred biennially to the book or article in English, German, or a Romance language judged to make the most significant contribution to the history of Indians in Latin America):

Cecilia Mendez, The Plebeian Republic: The Huanta Rebellion and the Making of the Peruvian State, 1820–1850. (Duke University Press, 2005)

Elinore Melville Prize for Latin American Environmental History (Established in 2007 through a bequest from Elinor Kerr Melville. It is conferred annually for the best book in English, French, Spanish or Portuguese on Latin American Environmental History [$500 award]):

Myrna Santiago, The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938 (Cambridge University Press, 2006)

The Lewis Hanke Prize (Supports transformation of dissertation into book [$1,000 award]):

Ian Read (Stanford University), "Unequally Bound: The Conditions of Slave Life and Treatment in Santos County, Brazil, 1822-1888"

The Lydia Cabrera Award for Cuban Historical Studies (Supports study of Cuba between 1492 and 1868 [$5,000 award]):

Amanda Warnock (University of California, Berkeley), "Partners and Rivals: New England, Cuba, and the Atlantic World, 1789-1849"

Alejandro de la Fuente (University of Pittsburgh), "Slaves and the Law in Colonial Cuba"

The James R. Scobie Memorial Award (Supports a exploratory research trip abroad to determine the feasibility of a Ph. D. dissertation topic dealing with some facet of Latin American history [$1,000 award]):

Brigitte Cairus (York University), "Outside Racial Democracy: Identity and Conversion among Roms in Brazil"

Sarah Jaffe (Tulane University), "Identifying Missionaries of Nationalism in Revolutionary Mexico (1920-1940)"

Brad Lange (Emory University), "La República de la Boca: Ethnicity, Politics, and Culture in a Buenos Aires Barrio, 1850-1930"

Andrea Vicente (Michigan State University), "Singleness and the State: The Daily Lives of Widowed and Single Women in 19th century Guadalajara, Mexico"

Warren Dean Memorial Prize (Conferred annually, in odd years for the history of Brazil and in even years for the environmental history of Latin America)

Jeffrey Needell, The Party of Order: The Conservatives, the State and Slavery in the Brazilian Monarchy, 1831-1871 (Stanford University Press, 2006)

Honorable Mention: Hal Langfur, Forbidden Lands: Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence, and the Persistence of Brazil's Eastern Indians, 1750-1830 (Stanford University Press, 2006)

Distinguished Service Award (Conferred annually upon a person whose career in scholarship, teaching, publishing, librarianship, institutional development or other fields demonstrates significant contributions to the advancement of the study of Latin American history in the United States [$500 award and a plaque suitably inscribed]

William Taylor (University of California, Berkeley)