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!
Presenters at the March 2020 SECOLAS meeting in Austin, Texas are encouraged to submit their papers for possible publication in The Latin Americanist Annals issue. The Annals edition is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal issue published by SECOLAS, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Winthrop University, and the University of Read more…
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.
The networking event will start after the conclusion of the Graduate Student Workshop. Let’s say 7:15pm at Cheer Up Charlie’s, 900 Red River St. It’s half a block north of the Hotel Indigo. FYI, today is the celebration for Cheer Up Charlie’s 10th anniversary, and to bring it in there Read more…
SECOLAS is delighted to announce its latest digital media project Discurso: https://discursorevista.com/ The idea is to offer a text-based rich media user experience in which scholars of Latin America explore a wide array of issues, ranging from the interaction between society and the state to how this relationship is rendered Read more…
The Business Meeting will begin tonight (Thursday) at 5:45pm in Pressler’s Garden.
Bienvenido a Austin. Welcome to Austin.Some news and notes: Panels begin this morning at 9am in the Hotel Indigo. The Breakout Rooms are located on the 1st floor of Hotel Indigo. If you are staying in the Holiday Inn Express, you can access the Hotel Indigo through a passage located just off of the Read more…