Secolistas, save the dates! SECOLAS 2020 annual meeting will be in Austin, Texas from March 3 to March 8, 2020. Panels will be held on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday (March 5, 6, 7). Information regarding the annual meeting, including conference hotel, local partners, and additional activities will be posted on Read more…
The submission deadline for the Annals issue of The Latin Americanist has been extended until July 31. If you attended the Oaxaca meeting and have not yet done so, consider submitting your conference paper for consideration of publication in the Annals issue of TLA. For any questions or concerns, direct Read more…
For immediate release: The officers and the members of the Executive Committee of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) stand in solidarity with the students, faculty, staff, and administration of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte), and the greater Charlotte community of which they are Read more…
Lina Del Castillo of the University of Texas has earned honorable mention from the Sturgis Leavitt Award for Best Article committee for her article entitled “Entangled Fates: French-Trained Naturalists, the First Colombian Republic, and the Materiality of Geopolitical Practice, 1819-1830,” published in the Hispanic American Historical Review. The committee found Read more…
Martin A. Nesvig of the University of Miami earned an honorable mention for his book entitled Promiscuous Power: An Unorthodox History of New Spain from the Alfred B. Thomas Book Award Committee. The committee said of his book, “Nesvig employs archival research to construct a narrative of local politics in Read more…
Congratulations to SECOLAS members Rita Palacios and Paul Worley on the release of their book entitled Unwriting Maya Literature: Ts’íib as Recorded Knowledge, published by the University of Arizona Press.
Lily Pearl Balloffet has won the 2019 Sturgis Leavitt Award for Best Article from the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies for her article entitled “Argentine and Egyptian History Entangled: From Perón to Nasser” published in the Journal of Latin American Studies. The Sturgis Leavitt Award given annually for the Read more…
Alison J. Bruey’s book entitled Bread, Justice, and Liberty: Grassroots Activism and Human Rights in Pinochet’s Chile has won the 2019 Alfred B. Thomas Book Award for the best book on a Latin American subject published by a SECOLAS member in 2018. The selection committee was composed of Dr. Corrie Read more…
Students who presented at the 2019 annual meeting in Oaxaca may submit their conference paper for the Richmond Brown Graduate Student Travel Grant and the Edward H. Moseley Student Paper Award. The top three submissions will receive the Richmond Brown Graduate Student Travel Grant, which includes a complimentary registration and Read more…