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…
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 have an appeal beyond 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…
Dr. Natalia Milanesio has earned Honorable Mention from the Alfred B. Thomas Book Award committee for her monograph Destape: Sex, Democracy, and Freedom in Postdictatorial Argentina, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Congratulations from all of us at SECOLAS!
Graduate student presenters at the Austin meeting may submit their revised conference paper to the Edward H. Moseley Student Paper Award competition. The deadline to submit to the committee is Tuesday, March 24, 2020 by 5pm EST. Submissions must not be longer than 25 pages, including bibliography, endnotes and/or footnotes. Read more…
Sara Kozameh has won the 2020 Edward H. Moseley Student Paper Award for her paper entitled “Labor, Sovereignty, and Revolution in Cuba’s Agrarian Reform, 1958-1970”. Kozameh presented this paper at the 2019 meeting in Oaxaca, Mexico. The Edward H. Moseley Student Paper Award is presented annually to the graduate student Read more…
Fernanda Bretones Lane has won the 2020 Sturgis Leavitt Award for Best Article for her article “The Congress of Vienna and the Making of Second Slavery.” The Sturgis Leavitt Award is given annually for the best article or book chapter on a Latin American or Iberian subject published by a Read more…
Dr. Christoph Rosenmüller has won the 2020 Alfred B. Thomas Book Award for his book Corruption and Justice in Colonial Mexico, 1650–1755. 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. Congratulations Christoph.
SECOLAS has extended the deadline until April 30 for students who presented at the Oaxaca meeting. The top three submissions selected by the committee will receive the Richmond Brown Student Travel Grant for the 2020 meeting in Austin, Texas. The top paper from this three will receive the Edward Moseley Read more…
Jian Gao of the University of Alabama has won the Edward H. Moseley Student Paper Award for his paper entitled “Restoring the Chinese Voice during Mexican Sinophobia, 1899-1934.” The Moseley Award is presented annually to the graduate student and SECOLAS member who has presented the best graduate student paper at Read more…