Helen Delpar Award Recipients
| Year | Award Winner |
| 2025-26 | Humanities: André de Oliveira Nascimento, “Human The Word Made Maya: Tsotsil Bible Translations and the Ritualistic Poetry of Ruperta Bautista“
Social Sciences: Aileen Teague, “The Telegenics of Force: How Reagan Used The News to Win Support for the Latin American Drug War“ |
| 2024-25 | Humanities: Maria Labbato, “‘Una Gringuita en México’: Janet Riesenfeld, Gender, and Writing Transnationalism in Mexican Cinema (1938–1965)“
Social Sciences: Angela Willis, “Reinaldo Arenas’s Original Antes que anochezca Manuscript: Unveiling and Unraveling ‘Un escándalo póstumo’“ |
| 2023-24 | Humanities: Manuela Borzone, “Jorge Luis Borges’s Gauchesca and the Issue of Genre Death.”
Social Sciences: Elizabeth Schwall, “Dancing Collaboration: Lorna Burdsall and Elfriede Mahler in Revolutionary Cuba.” |
| 2022-23 | Matthew Johnson, “A City of Feriantes, or Puesteros and Administradores? La Salada in Recent Argentine Film and Literature.”
Honorable Mention: Alan McPherson, “Sub-Perpetrators in the Chilean Security State.” |
| 2021-22 | No award given |
| 2020-21 | Nicole Pacino, “Epidemic Episodes: Disease Outbreaks and State Legitimacy in Post-Revolutionary Bolivia.”
Honorable Mention: Angela Rodriguez Mooney, “Construindo territorialidades além do beco: reconfiguração do espaço-favela e de seus moradores no romance Becos da memória, de Conceição Evaristo.” |
| 2019-20 | Laura Shelton, “Creating Modern Medicine and the Modern Nation in Northern Mexico: A Comparative Analysis of Nuevo León and Sonora, 1860–1930.”
Honorable Mention: Jian Gao, “Restoring the Chinese Voice during Mexican Sinophobia, 1919–1934.“ |