Dr. Miguel Valerio’s book Sovereign Joy: Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539–1640 has won the 2023 Alfred B. Thomas Book Award. Dr. Valerio is an assistant professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Washington University in St. Louis. The committee wrote, “In Sovereign Joy, Miguel Valerio produces a Read more…
Dr. Christina Ramos of Washington University received honorable mention in the Alfred B. Thomas Book Award competition for her book entitled Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment. The committee wrote, In Bedlam in the New World, Christina Ramos traces how enlightenment thought played Read more…
Dr. Paola Uparela, an assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Florida, has won the 2023 Sturgis Leavitt Award for Best Article for her article entitled “‘Yo llana estoy’ o el despliegue de una virginidad queer.” The committee applauds Uparela’s use of “a range of historical and literary sources Read more…
Dr. Matthew Johnson of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology has won the 2023 Helen Delpar Award with his article “A City of Feriantes, or Puesteros and Administradores? La Salada in Recent Argentine Film and Literature.” The committee notes “Dr. Johnson’s article examines a huge informal market complex Read more…
Dr. Christopher Heaney of the Pennsylvania State University has earned honorable mention in the Sturgis Leavitt Award competition for his article “Skull Walls: The Peruvian Dead and the Remains of Entanglement.” The committee observed Heaney’s article “presented not only an entangled history of museum studies and collecting politics, but also Read more…
Dr. Alan McPherson of Temple University earned honorable mention in the Helen Delpar Award competition for his article entitled “Sub-Perpetrators in the Chilean Security State.” The committee notes McPherson’s article “examines the ‘doers’ of state violence but who had no role in the larger decision-making process. Looking at the assassination Read more…
The Sturgis Leavitt Award is given annually for the best article or book chapter on a Latin American or Iberian subject published by a SECOLAS member in the previous calendar year. The article may be written in any language. Preference will be given to articles that appeal beyond a single Read more…
The Alfred B. Thomas Award is awarded annually for the best book on a Latin American subject published by a SECOLAS member in the previous year. Co-authored works may be considered, but not anthologies or edited works. Books may be in any language. Authors must have been members of SECOLAS Read more…
For our graduate students who presented at the meeting in Charlotte, please submit your conference paper for the Moseley and Brown competitions. The Edward H. Moseley Award is presented annually to the graduate student and SECOLAS member who has presented the best graduate student paper at the current year’s meeting. Read more…
The Alfred B. Thomas Award is awarded annually for the best book on a Latin American subject published by a SECOLAS member in the previous year. Co-authored works may be considered, but not anthologies or edited works. Books may be in any language. Authors must have been members of SECOLAS Read more…