Alfred B. Thomas Award Recipients
| Year | Award Winner |
| 2023-24 | Max Deardorff, A Tale of Two Granadas: Custom, Community, and Citizenship in the Spanish Empire, 1568–1668. Cambridge University Press, 2023. Honorable Mention: Jürgen Buchenau, The Sonoran Dynasty in Mexico: Revolution, Reform, and Repression. University of Nebraska Press, 2023. |
| 2022-23 | Miguel Valerio, Sovereign Joy: Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539–1640. Cambridge University Press, 2022. Honorable Mention: Christina Ramos, Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment. University of North Carolina Press, 2022. |
| 2021-22 | Diana Montaño, Electrifying Mexico: Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City. University of Texas, 2021. Honorable Mention: Carmen Soliz, Fields of Revolution: Agrarian Reform and Rural State Formation in Bolivia, 1935-1964. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. Honorable Mention: Jeffrey D. Pugh, The Invisibility Bargain: Governance Networks and Migrant Human Security. Oxford University Press, 2021. |
| 2020-21 | Juan José Ponce Vázquez, Islanders and Empire: Smuggling and Political Defiance in Hispaniola, 1580–1690. Cambridge University Press, 2020. Honorable Mention: Jeffrey Erbig, Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met: Border Making in Eighteenth-Century South America. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. |
| 2019-20 | Christoph Rosenmüller, Corruption and Justice in Colonial Mexico, 1650-1755. Cambridge University Press, 2019. Honorable Mention: Natalia Milanesio, Destape: Sex, Democracy, and Freedom in Postdictatorial Argentina. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. |
| 2018-19 | Alison J. Bruey, Bread, Justice, and Liberty: Grassroots Activism and Human Rights in Pinochet’s Chile. University of Wisconsin Press, 2018. Honorable Mention: Martin Nesvig, Promiscuous Power: An Unorthodox History of New Spain. University of Texas Press, 2018. |
| 2017-18 | Steven Hyland Jr., More Argentine Than You: Arabic-Speaking Immigrants in Argentina. University of New Mexico Press, 2017. |
| 2016-17 | Benjamin Cowan, Securing Sex: Morality and Repression in the Making of Cold War Brazil. University of North Carolina Press, 2016. Honorable Mention: Christina Bueno, The Pursuit of Ruins: Archaeology, History, and the Making of Modern Mexico. University of New Mexico Press, 2016. |
| 2015-16 | Renata Keller, Mexico’s Cold War: Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution. Cambridge University Press, 2015. Honorable Mention: Victor Uribe-Uran, Fatal Love: Spousal Killers, Law and Punishment in the Late Colonial Spanish Atlantic. Stanford University Press, 2015. |
| 2014-15 | Rebecca Atencio, Memory’s Turn: Reckoning with Dictatorship in Brazil. University of Wisconsin Press, 2014. |
| 2013-14 | Tiffany A. Sippial, Prostitution, Modernity, and the Making of the Cuban Republic, 1840-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2013. |
| 2012-13 | Hector Lindo-Fuentes and Erik Ching. Modernizing Minds in El Salvador: Education Reform and the Cold War, 1960-1980. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2012. Honorable Mention: Michael L. Conniff, Panama and the United States: The End of the Alliance. Third Edition. Athens: The University of George Press, 2012. |
| 2011-12 | Emily Wakild, Revolutionary Parks: Conservation, Social Justice, and Mexico’s National Parks, 1910-1940. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2011. Honorable Mention: James A. Wood, The Society of Equality. Popular Republicanism and Democracy in Santiago de Chile 1818-1851. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2011. |
| 2010-11 | Ida Altman, The War for Mexico’s West: Indians and Spaniards in New Galicia, 1524-1550. University of New Mexico Press, 2010. Honorable Mention: Jerry Dávila, Hotel Trópico: Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization, 1950-1980. Duke University Press, 2010. |
| 2009-10 | Jan H. French, Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil’s Northeast. University of North Carolina, 2009. Honorable Mention: Stephen D. Morris, Political Corruption in Mexico: The Impact of Democratization. Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner, 2009. |
| 2008-09 | John J. Dwyer, The Agrarian Dispute: The Expropriation of American-Owned Rural Land in Postrevolutionary Mexico. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. Honorable Mention: Verónica Grossi, Sigilosos v(u)elos epistemológicos en Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2007. |
| 2007-08 | Kathleen R. Martin, Discarded Pages: Araceli Cab Cumi, Maya Poet and Politician. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. |
| 2006-07 | Jürgen Buchenau, Plutarco Elías Calles and the Mexican Revolution. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. |
| 2005-06 | Michael Handelsman, Leyendo la globalización desde la mitad del mundo: Identidad y resistencia en el Ecuador. Quito: Editorial El Conejo, 2005. Honorable Mention: Stephen D. Morris, Gringolandia: Mexican Identiy and Perceptions of the United States. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. |
| 2004-05 | Alan McPherson, Yankee No: Anti-Americanism in US-Latin American Relations. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2006. Honorable Mention: Jürgen Buchenau, Tools of Progress: A German Merchant Family in Mexico City, 1865- present. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. |
| 2003-04 | Max Paul Friedman, Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign against the Germans of Latin America in World War II. New York: Cambridge UP, 2003. Honorable Mention: David A. Carey, Jr. Our Elders Teach Us: Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press 2002. |
| 2002-03 | Merlin H. Forster, The Committed Word: Studies in Spanish-American Poetry. Oxford: University of Mississippi, Romance Monographs No. 59, 2002. |
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| 1998-99 | Thomas Schoonover, Germany in Central America: Competitive Imperialism, 1821-1929 (Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama Press, 1998). |
| 1997-98 | Kyle Longley, The Sparrow and the Hawk: Costa Rica and the United States during the Rise of José Figueres (Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama Press, 1997). |
| 1996-97 | Judith Ewell, Venezuela and the United States: From Monroe’s Hemphere to Petroleum’s Empire (Athens: U Georgia Press, 1996). |
| 1995-96 | John A Britton, Revolution and Ideology: Images of the Mexican Revolution in the United States (Lexington: U Press of Kentucky, 1995). |
| 1994-95 | Ralph Lee Woodward, Rafael Carrera and the Emergence of the Republic of Guatemala, 1821-1871 (Athens: U Georgia Press, 1993). |
| 1993-94 | |
| 1992-93 | Helen Delpar, The Enormous Vogue of Things Mexican (Tuscaloosa: U Alabama Press, 1992). |