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Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) Awards and Prizewinners
The Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) is proud to announce its list of prizewinners for 2015.
Bolton-Johnson Prize (2015)
This prize is for the best book in English on Latin American history published in the previous year.
Thomas Klubock, La Frontera: Forests and Ecological Conflict in Chile's Frontier Territory (Duke University Press, 2014).
Honorable Mention:
Sebastián Carassai, The Argentine Silent Majority: Middle Classes, Politics, Violence, and Memory in the Seventies (Duke University Press, 2014).
Distinguished Service Award (2015)
Herbert Klein, Stanford University
Elinor Melville Prize For Latin American Environmental History (2015)
Vera Candiani, Dreaming of Dry Land: Environmental Transformation in Colonial Mexico City (Stanford University Press, 2014).
James Alexander Robertson Memorial Prize (2015)
This prize is for the best article published in the Hispanic American Historical Review.
Karen Graubart, "Learning from the Qadi: The Jurisdiction of Local Rule in the Early Colonial Andes," 95:2 (November 2015): 195-228.
James R. Scobie Memorial Award (2015)
This award supports a short, exploratory research trip abroad (normally four to twelve weeks) to determine the feasibility of a PhD dissertation topic dealing with some facet of Latin American history.
Antony Dan Cozart, University of New Mexico
Audrey Fals Henderson, Emory University
Shannon James, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Fernanda Bretones Lane, Vanderbilt University
Cos Tollerson, New York University
Lewis Hanke Prize (2015)
This award supports field research that will allow transformation of a dissertation into a book.
Christy Thornton, Rowan University. "Sovereignty and Solidarity"
Honorable Mention:
Rebecca Herman, University of California, Berkeley. "Contesting Sovereignty"
Lydia Cabrera Award (2015)
The Lydia Cabrera Award supports the study of Cuba between 1492 and 1868.
Adriana Chira, University of Michigan. "Owning Intimacies: Slavery, Family, and Property among Afro-descendants in Santiago de Cuba, 1803-1868"
Jorge Felipe, Michigan State University. "The Origins of the Cuban-based Slave Trade: Atlantic Networks and Local Changes (1789-1820)"
The Maria Elena Martinez Prize (2015)
Formerly the Mexican History Prize, the award was created in 2009 by the CLAH General Committee. The prize was renamed in 2015 in memoriam of Maria Elena Martinez, a former prize recipient and contributor to the field of...