Prizes

2022- David Tavárez

Rethinking Zapotec Time: Cosmology, Ritual, and Resistance in Colonial Mexico, University of Texas Press, 2022.

2019 – Zeb Tortorici

Sins Against Nature, Sex and Archive in Colonial New Spain.  Durham NC:
Duke University Press, 2018.

2018 – Alvaro Jarrín

Biopolitics of Beauty Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017.

2019 – Barbara Sutton

Surviving State Terror, Women’s Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in
Argentina, New York: New York University Press, 2018.

2018 – Mallory E. Matsumoto

Land, Politics, and Memory in Five Nija’ib’ K’iche’ Títulos: “The Title and Proof of Our Ancestors” , University Press of Colorado, 2017. 

Marysa Navarro-Aranguren is a Professor Emerita of History and the Charles A. and Elfriede A. Collis Professor Emerita in History at Dartmouth College. She joined the Dartmouth College History Department in 1968 and taught courses on the Spanish Conquest, the History of Brazil, the History of Contemporary Latin America, Slavery, Revolution and Bureaucratic Authoritarianism. She has written and edited several books on Rightwing Thought in Argentina, Eva Perón, Women’s History and Women’s Studies, as well as numerous articles. Since her retirement she has been appointed Resident Scholar at the David Rockefeller Institute for Latin American Studies, Harvard University. Dr. Navarro-Aranguren supported NECLAS in numerous roles for thirty years and most recently was Secretary-Treasurer of NECLAS from 2004- 2013.

In honor of her efforts, NECLAS now offers the annual Marysa Navarro Best Book Prize.

2019 – Pugh, Jeffrey D. “Negotiating Identity and Belonging Through the Invisibility Bargain:
Colombian Forced Migrants in Ecuador”. IMR (International Migration Review) Volume 52
Number 4 (Winter 2018): 978–1010

2018 – Anne Eller, Yale.”Rumors of Slavery: Defending Emancipation in a Hostile Caribbean.” American Historical Review, 122:3 (June 2017), 653-679.

Joseph T. Criscenti was a history professor at Boston College from 1955 to 1988 and retired professor emeritus of history. He specialized in Argentine history, especially the formation of the Argentine Republic. His article “Argentine Constitutional History, 1810-1852: A Re-examination,” published in the Hispanic American Historical Review, won the James Alexander Robertson Prize of the Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) in 1961. After retirement, Dr. Criscenti remained active and completed thirteen years as a contributing editor of the Handbook of Latin American Studies published by the Library of Congress. Dr. Criscenti was a founder of the New England Council of Latin American Studies, and the Secretary-Treasurer for nearly twenty years.

In honor of his efforts, NECLAS now offers the annual Joseph T. Criscenti Best Article Prize.

2018 – Melvin, Karen and Sylvia Sellers–García. Imagining Histories of Colonial Latin America. Synoptic Methods and Practices. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2017.

Scott Palmer taught at Bowdoin College before moving to Arlington, Virginia in 1976 to work for the U.S. Department of State at the Foreign Service Institute as Chair of Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Associate Dean for Programs of the School of Area Studies. In 1988, he became a professor at Boston University where he served as Chairman of the Political Science Department, Associate Chairman of the Department of International Relations, Director of Latin American Studies, and Co-Director, with his wife, Diane, of Peru Summer programs.

In honor of his efforts, NECLAS offers the D. Scott Palmer Best Edited Book Prize.

2022- Hannah Greenwald

“Now I Walk on Foreign Soil: Settler Colonialism in Argentina’s Southern Borderlands, 1867-1899”
Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, 2022.

2021 – Daniel McDonald

“Peripheral Citizenship: The Popular Politics of Rights, Welfare, and Health in São Paulo, 1964-1990”          Ph.D. Dissertation, Brown University, 2020.

2019 – Co-Winners –

Rachel Nolan, “Children for Export”                            Ph.D. Dissertation, NYU, 2018. 

Santiago Arbeláez Muñoz, “The New Kingdom of Granada”                                                                          Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, 2018.