Brazil

Caros membros da Seção Brasil 

Temos a honra de anunciar os vencedores do Prêmio da Seção Brasil 2024, das áreas de  Humanidades  (Prêmio Antonio Candido) e Ciências Sociais ( Prêmio Sérgio Buarque de Hollanda).  Nossos parabéns aos vencedores e a todos que submeteram seus trabalhos. Um agradecimento especial a todos os jurados que se dispuseram a ler e a avaliar tantos trabalhos.

Meus parabéns!!

Paulo  Andrade - Co-chair LASA Brazil Section

 LASA BRAZIL AWARDS 2024

Congratulations to the winners

 

·MELHOR LIVRO EM HUMANIDADES / BEST BOOK IN HUMANITIES – (ANTONIO CANDIDO PRIZE)

Presented by the Brazil section

Jurors:  Adalberto Müller (Universidade Federal Fluminense),  Horst Nitschack  Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Filosofía Y Humanidades)

 

Winner: Cesar Braga-Pinto (Northwestern University) 

 Poses e posturas. Performances de gênero e sexualidade na literatura brasileira (1850-1950).

Honorable Mention:

Daniel Mandur Thomaz (King's College London)

Transatlantic Radio Dramas. Antônio Callado and the BBC Latin American Service During and After World War II.

  

·MELHOR LIVRO EM CIÊNCIAS SOCIAIS / BEST BOOK IN SOCIAL SCIENCES (SÉRGIO BUARQUE DE HOLANDA PRIZE)

Presented by the Brazil section

Jurors:  Seth Garfield  (University of Texas at Austin) Benjamin Junge (State University of New York), Lorraine  Leu (University of Texas at Austin).

 

Winner: Hal  Langfur  (University at Buffalo, State University of New York)

 Adrift on an Inland Sea: Misinformation and the Limits of Empire in the Brazilian Backlands

 Honorable Mention 

Laurie Denyer Willis (University of Edinburgh)

Go With God: Political Exhaustion and Evangelical Possibility in Suburban Brazil

 

 

·   MELHOR TESE/ BEST DISSERTATION  

Presented by the Brazil section

Jurors: Lua Gill da Cruz (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro ) David Thompson  (Simon Fraser University), Ana Luiz Morais Soares (Vanderbilt University).

 Winner:

 Franciele Rocha de Oliveira (Universidade Federal de Santa Maria)

Negros laços: trajetórias coletivas das famílias dos nascidos de ventre livre no pós-abolição (Santa Maria/RS, 1871-1941)

 

 Honorable Mention 

Maria Antonia Girardello Gatti (Harvard University)

 Double Agent: Literature in the Americas in the Early Cold War  Second  Honorable Mention 

Victoria Rose Broadus(Georgetown University) Vissungo: the afro-descended culture of miners and maroons in Brazil's diamond district, 1850s-2020s

 

 ·MELHOR ARTIGO/ BEST ARTICLE

Presented by the Brazil section

Jurors: Patricia Lino (University of California), Cecília Rodrigues (University of Georgia), Christopher Dunlap (Stanford University)

 

Winner:

Katherine Jensen (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

From the asylum official's point of view: frames of perception and evaluation in refugee status determination, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 49:13, 3455-3472, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2023.2179460

 

 

 Honorable Mention 

 Marc A. Hertzman (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

The “Indians of Palmares”: Conquest, Insurrection, and Land in Northeast Brazil

Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (3): 423–460. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-10591971

 

 

Second  Honorable Mention 

 Sophia Beal (University of Minnesota)

Social hierarchization and elevators in contemporary Brazilian literature. In: Chasqui. 2023; Vol. 52, No. 1. pp. 51-72.