Brazil

LASA Brazil Awards 2025: Congratulations to the winners
 

Dear members of the Brazil Section:

We are delighted and honored to announce the winners of the 2024 Brazil Section Prizes. Congratulations to the winners and to all those who submitted their work. A special thanks to all the judges who dedicated their precious time to read and evaluate so many submissions.

Congratulations to all of you!

A special thanks to the executive committee of the LASA Brazil Section for carefully coordinating and overseeing the competition:

• Adam Joseph Shellhorse, Co-Chair, Temple University

• Nelson Cerqueira, Co-Chair, Federal University of Bahia

• Ashley Brock, Treasurer, University of Pennsylvania

• Marco Pasqualino, Federal University of Uberlandia

• Melissa Teixeira, University of Pennsylvania

• Renata Pontes de Queiróz, Albright College

• Carolina Sá Carvalho, University of Toronto

The results will be shared on our website and via social media.

Grande abraço,

Adam Joseph Shellhorse and Nelson Cerqueira

Caros membros da Seção Brasil:

Temos a honra de anunciar os vencedores dos Prêmios da Seção Brasil 2024. Nossos parabéns aos vencedores e a todos que submeteram seus trabalhos. Um agradecimento especial a todos os jurados que dispuseram de seu tempo para ler e avaliar tantos trabalhos.

A todos vocês nossos parabéns!!

Um agradecimento especial ao comitê executivo da Seção Brasil da LASA por coordenar e supervisionar cuidadosamente a competição:

• Adam Joseph Shellhorse, Co-Chair, Temple University

• Nelson Cerqueira, Universidade Federal da Bahia

• Ashley Brock, Tesoureira, University of Pennsylvania

• Marco Pasqualino, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

• Melissa Teixeira, University of Pennsylvania

• Renata Pontes de Queiróz, Albright College

• Carolina Sá Carvalho, University of Toronto

Os resultados serão compartilhados em nosso site e nas redes sociais.

Grande abraço,

Adam Joseph Shellhorse and Nelson Cerqueira

MELHOR LIVRO / BEST BOOK

Jurors: Larissa Lira (Universidade de São Paulo-USP), Benjamin Cowan (University of California, San Diego), Antonio Bacelar da Silva (University of Arizona)

Winners:

Maria Helena P. T. Machado (Universidade de São Paulo-USP) and Antonio Alexandre Isidio Cardoso (Universidade Federal do Maranhão)

Geminiana e seus filhos: Escravidão, maternidade e morte no Brasil do século XIX (Bazar do Tempo)

Honorable Mentions:

Melissa Teixeira, A Third Path: Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal (Princeton University Press)

Marc A. Hertzman (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), After Palmares: Diaspora, Inheritance, and the Afterlives of Zumbi (Duke University Press)

MELHOR ARTIGO EM HUMANIDADES/ BEST ARTICLE IN HUMANITIES (ANTONIO CANDIDO PRIZE)

Jurors: Adriana Michéle Campos Johnson (University of California, Irvine), Nathaniel Wolfson (University of California, Berkeley), Dylon Robbins (New York University)

Winner:

Travis Knoll (Wingate University), “In the Name of the God of All Names: Yahweh, Obatalá, Olorum”: The 1981 Quilombos Mass as an Ecumenical Pilgrimage in Brazil.” The Americas (2024), 125-58.

Honorable Mention:

Alice Heeren (California State University, Stanislaus), "'Here everything appears to be still in construction and is already a ruin’: rethinking ‘brasilidade’ in the work of Cerith Wyn Evans and Laercio.” Burlington Contemporary (2024), 3-25.

MELHOR ARTIGO EM CIÊNCIAS SOCIAS/ BEST ARTICLE IN SOCIAL SCIENCES (SÉRGIO BUARQUE DE HOLANDA PRIZE

Jurors: Marília Bueno de Araújo Ariza (Universidade de São Paulo), Marc A. Hertzman (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Pedro Mendes Loureiro (University of Cambridge)

Winners:

Jacob Blanc (McGill University), “Memory Scripts and Life History in the Shadow of Brazil’s Dictatorship,” Journal of Latin American Studies 56, no. 2 (2024): 279-303

and

Jean François Mayer (Concordia University), “Resistance to Oppression in Informal Work: Domestic Workers’ Strategies against Workplace Violence in Latin America,” Comparative Sociology 23 no. 5 (2024): 583-614.

MELHOR TESE / BEST DISSERTATION

Jury: John French (Duke University), Sophia Beale (University of Minnesota), ), José Juan Pérez Menendez (University of California, Davis), Marina Bedran (Johns Hopkins University), Luisa Valle (Vassar College)

Winner:

Thomaz Amancio (University of Chicago, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures), Field Work: Labor and Culture in Rural Brazil

Honorable Mentions:

Gustavo Reis Louro (Yale University, Department of Spanish and Portuguese), Trans-Formação da Literatura Brasileira: Haroldo de Campos Revê Antonio Candido

Philippe Artur dos Reis (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas 2024), São Paulo, cidade laboratório: a questão habitacional entre a pesquisa, circulação de saberes e articulações políticas na passagem do século XIX para o XX

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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) (Alameda Editorial)

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 (University of Pittsburgh Press)

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 (Stanford University Press)

Honorable Mention: Laurie Denyer Willis (University of Edinburgh) Go With God: Political Exhaustion and Evangelical Possibility in Suburban Brazil (University of California Press)

MELHOR ARTIGO / BEST ARTICLE Presented by the Brazil Section

Jurors: Patrícia Lino (University of California, Los Angeles), 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, 2023, pp. 3455-3472.

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, 103, 3, 2023, pp. 423-460.

Honorable Mention: Sophia Beal (University of Minnesota) “Social Hierarchization and Elevators in Contemporary Brazilian Literature.” Chasqui, 52, 1, pp. 51-72.]

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

Honorable Mention: Victoria Rose Broadus (Georgetown University) Vissungo: The Afro-Descended Culture of Miners and Maroons in Brazil's Diamond District, 1850s-2020s

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LASA Brazil Awards 2023:

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

Jurors: Patricia Vieira (University of Coimbra), Victoria Saramago (University of Chicago), Rebecca Atencio (Tulane University)

Winner:

Adele Nelson (University of Texas at Austin)

Forming Abstraction: Art and Institutions in Postwar Brazil (University of California Press)

Honorable Mention:

Anadelia Romo (Texas State University)

Selling Black Brazil: Race, Nation, and Visual Culture in Salvador, Bahia (University of Texas Press)

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

Jurors: Heather F. Roller (Colgate University), Clément A. Akassi (Howard University), Michael Touchton (University of Miami).

Winner: Antonio José Bacelar da Silva (University of Arizona)

Between Black and Brown: Anti-Racist Activism in Brazil (Rutgers University Press)

Honorable Mention:

Seth Garfield (University of Texas at Austin)

Guaraná: How Brazil Embraced the World's Most Caffeine-Rich Plant (University of North Carolina Press)

MELHOR ARTIGO EM HUMANIDADES / BEST ARTICLE IN HUMANITIES (ANTONIO CANDIDO PRIZE)

Jurors: Cacilda Bonfim (Federal Institute of Maranhão – IFMA), Diana Klinger (Fluminense Federal University, UFF), Krista Brune (Pennsylvania State University)

Winner:

Andrew G. Britt (University of North Carolina School of the Arts)

“Spatial Projects of Forgetting: Razing the Remedies Church and Museum to the Enslaved in São Paulo’s ‘Black Zone,’ 1930s–1940s.” Journal of Latin American Studies, vol. 54, no. 4, August 2022, pp. 561-592.

Honorable Mention:

Oscar de la Torre (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

“The Well That Wept Blood: Ghostlore, Haunted Waterscapes, and the Politics of Quilombo Blackness in Amazonia (Brazil).” The American Historical Review, vol. 127, no. 4, December 2022. pp. 1635–1658.

MELHOR ARTIGO EM CIÊNCIAS SOCIAIS / BEST ARTICLE IN SOCIAL SCIENCES (SÉRGIO BUARQUE DE HOLANDA PRIZE

Jurors: Ian Carrillo (University of Oklahoma), Handerson Joseph, (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Paulo Gustavo Pellegrino Correa (Universidade Federal do Amapá)

Winner:

David Thompson:(Simon Fraser University)

“Evangelical Christianity as Infrastructure in Brazil’s Penal System.” Journal of Latin American Studies, vol. 54, no. 3, June 2022, pp. 457-479.

Honorable Mention

Luciana de Souza Leão (University of Michigan)

“Optics of the State: The Politics of Making Poverty Visible in Brazil and Mexico.” American Journal of Sociology, vol. 128, no. 1, July 2022, pp. 1–46.

MELHOR TESE EM HUMANIDADES / BEST DISSERTATION IN HUMANITIES (ANTONIO CANDIDO PRIZE)

Jurors: Rex Nielson (Brigham Young University), César Braga-Pinto (Northwestern University)

Winner:

Alice Hereen (Southern Methodist University)

The Art of the Present in the Country of the Future: Remediations of Brasília in Contemporary Art

Honorable Mention:

Luisa Valle (The Graduate Center, City University of New York)

The Beehive, the Favela, the Castle, and the Ministry: Race and Modern Architecture in Rio de Janeiro, 1811-1945

Travis Knoll (University of North Carolina-Charlotte)

Liberate, Inculturate, Educate! Brazilian Black Catholics, Racial Justice, and Affirmative Action from Rio de Janeiro to Brasília

MELHOR TESE EM CIÊNCIAS SOCIAIS/ BEST DISSERTATION IN SOCIAL SCIENCES SÉRGIO BUARQUE DE HOLANDA PRIZE)

Jurors: Kathleen Millar (Brown University), Gray Fielding Kidd (Villanova University)

Winner:

Ana Luiza Morais Soares (University of Illinois Chicago)

Surviving the Concrete Jungle: Indigenous Children in the Brazilian Amazon (1860-1910)

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LASA BRAZIL AWARDS 2022:

Dear Brazil Section Members:

We are very pleased to share the 2021 Section Prizes. Congratulations to all participants, prizewinners, honorable mentions, and judges! Your work will be recognized at the Brazil Section business meeting online.

Best wishes,
Mónica and Paulo
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Caros membros da Seção Brasil:
É um prazer compartilhar abaixo a lista dos Prêmios 2021. Parabéns a todos os participantes, vencedores, menções honrosas e juízes. Seu trabalho será reconhecido na reunião da Seção Brasil online.

Saudações cordiais,
Mónica e Paulo

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

Jurors: Leila Lehnen (Brown University), Gustavo PT Furtado (Duke University), Alessandra Santos (University of British Columbia)

Winner: Paul Christopher Johnson, University of Michigan
Automatic Religion: Nearhuman Agents of Brazil and France (University of Chicago Press)

Honorable Mention: Victoria Saramago, University of Chicago
Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America (Northwestern University Press)

Honorable Mention: Stephanie Dennison, University of Leeds
Remapping Brazilian Film Culture in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge)

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

Jurors: James N. Green (Brown University), Jacob Blanc (University of Edinburgh)

Winner: John D. French, Duke University
Lula and his Politics of Cunning: From Metalworker to President of Brazil (University of North Carolina Press)

Honorable Mention: Brian Wampler, Boise State University; Natasha Borges Sugiyama, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; and Michael Touchton, University of Miami
Democracy at Work: Pathways to Well-Being in Brazil (Cambridge University Press)

Honorable Mention: Marília Bueno de Araújo Ariza, University of São Paulo (USP)
Mães infames, filhos venturosos (Alameda Editorial)

BEST ARTICLE IN HUMANITIES – MELHOR ARTIGO EM CIÊNCIAS HUMANAS (ANTONIO CANDIDO PRIZE)

Jurors: Julio Mendonça (Casa das Rosas), Victoria Saramago (University of Chicago), Mari Rodríguez Binnie (Williams College)

Winner: Adam Joseph Shellhorse, Temple University
"The Verbivocovisual Revolution: Anti-Literature, Affect, Politics, and World Literature in Augusto de Campos." CR: The New Centennial Review 20.1 (Spring 2020): 147-184.

Honorable mention: Odile Cisneros, University of Alberta
"Augusto de Campos's Outro: The Limits of Authorship and the Limits of Legibility." Journal of Lusophone Studies 5.1 (Spring 2020): 38-63.

BEST ARTICLE IN SOCIAL SCIENCES – MELHOR ARTIGO EM CIÊNCIAS SOCIAIS (SÉRGIO BUARQUE DE HOLANDA PRIZE)

Jurors: Graziela Morães Silva (The Graduate Institute Geneva), Valéria Mendonça de Macedo (UNIFESP), Rita Biason (UNESP/Franca)

Winner: Antoine Acker, University of Zurich
"A Different Story in the Anthropocene: Brazil's Post-Colonial Quest for Oil (1930-1975)." Past & Present 249.1 (November 2020): 167–211.

Honorable mention: Ian Carrillo, University of Oklahoma
"Racialized Organizations and Color-Blind Racial Ideology in Brazil." Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 7.1 (2020): 56-70.

BEST DISSERTATION IN HUMANITIES – MELHOR TESE EM HUMANIDADES (ANTONIO CANDIDO PRIZE)

Jurors: Raquel Campos (Universidade de Brasília), Sarah J. Townsend (Pennsylvania State University), Eyal Weinberg (Florida Atlantic University)

Winner: Jamie Lee Anderson, Pennsylvania State University
Mothers in the Family of Saints: Gender and Race in the Making of Afro-Brazilian Heritage (University of Michigan)

Honorable Mention: Ana Cláudia dos Santos São Bernardo, Tulane University
From the Dumpster to the Bookshelf: Literature Written by Black Women in Brazil and the Quest for Mobility from 1960 to the Present (University of Minnesota)

BEST DISSERTATION IN SOCIAL SCIENCES – MELHOR TESE EM CIÊNCIAS SOCIAIS (SÉRGIO BUARQUE DE HOLANDA PRIZE)

Jurors: Lorena Féres da Silva Telles (Universidade de São Paulo), Maíra Kubik Mano (Universidade Federal da Bahia), Paul Sneed (Seoul National University)

Winner: David C. Thompson, University of California, Berkeley
"Resocialize to Conquer the Future": Incarceration and Reform in Rio de Janeiro (University of California, Berkeley)

Honorable Mention: Guillermo Toral, Vanderbilt University
The Political Logics of Patronage: Uses and Abuses of Government Jobs in Brazil (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Honorable Mention: Benjamin Bradlow, Harvard University
Urban Origins of Democracy and Inequality: Governing São Paulo and Johannesburg, 1985-2016 (Brown University)

BEST MA THESIS IN HUMANITIES - MELHOR DISSERTAÇÃO DE MESTRADO EM HUMANIDADES (ANTONIO CANDIDO PRIZE)

Jurors: Benjamin Junge (State University of New York at New Paltz), Juliana Santini (UNESP/Araquara), Juliana Pimenta Attie (Universidade Federal de Alfenas)

Winner: Daniela Nascimento (UNESP/Araraquara)
Carolina Maria de Jesus e a escrita de si como lugar de memória e resistência

Honorable Mention: Eduardo Monteiro Burkle (Queen's University Belfast)
When Forgetting is Dangerous Transitional justice, Collective Remembrance and Brazil's Shift to Far-Right Populism

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LASA Brazil Section 2020, Section Prizes

Best Book in the Humanities - Melhor Livro em Humanidades (Antonio Candido Prize) 

Judges: Charles A. Perrone, Robert Henry Moser, Ana Paulina Lee

Winner: Gustavo PT Furtado (Duke University), Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil: Cinematic
Archives of the Present (Oxford University Press, 2019).

Honorable Mention: Jessica Graham (UC San Diego), Shifting the Meaning of Democracy: Race, Politics, and Culture in the United States and Brazil (University of California Press, 2019).
And Jacob Blanc (University of Edinburgh), Before the Flood: The Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil (Duke University Press, 2019)

Best Book Prize in Social Sciences - Melhor Livro em Ciências Sóciais (Sérgio Buarque de Holanda Prize)

Judges: Anne Hanley and Silvana Mariano

Winner: Rebecca Tarlau (Pennsylvania State University), Occupying Schools, Occupying Land: How the Landless Workers Movement Transformed Brazilian Education (Oxford University Press, 2019).

Honorable Mention: Christopher Gibson (Simon Fraser University), Movement-Driven Development: The Politics of Health and Democracy in Brazil (Stanford University Press, 2019).

Best Article in Humanities - Melhor Artigo em Ciências Humanas (Antonio Candido Prize)

Judges: Ashley Brock, Gustavo PT Furtado, and Isabel Gómez

Winner: Mari Rodríguez Binnie (Williams College), “Dissident Bodies: Materialising Xerographic Experimentation in São Paulo 1970-1985.” Third Text 33.6: (2019): 745-760.

Honorable Mention: Pedro Rabelo Erber (Cornell University). “Beautiful Money; or, What Can Contemporary Art Teach Us About the Neoliberal Economy?” Revista Hispánica Moderna 72.2 (2019): 149-159

Best Article in Social Sciences - Melhor Artigo em Ciências Sóciais (Sérgio Buarque de Holanda prize)

Judges: Charles Klein, Karina Kato, and Natalia S. Bueno

Winner: Graziella Morães Silva (The Graduate Institute Geneva); Luciana Souza Leão (University of Michigan, LSA Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellow); Bárbara Grillo (PPGSA/UFRJ; The City University of New York)
“Seeing Whites: Views of Black Brazilians in Rio de Janeiro.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 43.4 (2019): 632-651.

Honorable Mention: Stefanie Israel de Souza (Tulane University, CIPR Post-Doctoral Fellow) “Pacification of Rio's Favelas and the ‘Pacification of the Pacification Police’: The Role of Coordinating Brokerage in Police Reform.” Sociological Forum 34.2 (June 2019): 458-482.

Best Dissertation in Humanities – Melhor Tese em Humanidades (Antonio Candido Prize)

Judges: Dain Borges, Rebeca Errázuriz, Thaís Waldman

Winner: Lúcia Klück Stumpf (Ph.D. Universidade de São Paulo), Fragmentos de guerra: Imagens e visualidades da guerra contra o Paraguai (1865-1881). Ph.D., Antropologia Social.

Honorable Mention: Daniel Mandur Thomaz (Ph.D., St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford), A Brazilian at the BBC War-Front: Entertainment, Propaganda and Modernism in Antônio Callado’s Radio Dramas for the Latin American Service (1941-1947). Ph.D. in Modern Languages.
And Eyal Weinberg (University of Texas at Austin), Tending to the Body Politic: Doctors, Military Repression, and Transitional Justice in Brazil (1961-1988). Ph.D. in History.

Best Dissertation in Social Sciences – Melhor Tese em Ciências Sóciais (Sérgio Buarque de Holanda prize)

Judges: Jessica Jerome, Karina Biondi, and Pedro Mendes Loureiro
Winner: Lorena Féres da Silva Telles (Ph.D., Universidade de São Paulo), Teresa Benguela e Felipa Crioula estavam grávidas: maternidade e escravidão no Rio de Janeiro (século XIX). Ph.D, Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH)

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LASA Brazil Section 2018, Section Prizes

Best Book in the Humanities - Melhor Livro em Humanidades (Antonio Candido Prize) 

Judges: Marshall C. Eakin, Christopher Dunn, Alessandra Santos

Winner: Ana Paulina Lee (Columbia University), Mandarin Brazil: Race, Representation, and Memory (Stanford University Press).

Honorable Mention: Maite Conde (University of Cambridge), Foundational Films: Early Cinema and Modernity in Brazil (University of California Press)
And César Braga-Pinto (Northwestern University), A violência das letras: amizade e inimizade na literatura brasileira (1888-1940) (EdUERJ)

Best Book Prize in Social Sciences - Melhor Livro em Ciências Sóciais (Sérgio Buarque de Holanda Prize)

 
Judges: Sean T. Mitchell, Teresa Cribelli, and Carlos Eduardo Henning

Winner: Karina Biondi (Universidade Estadual do Maranhão), Proibido roubar na quebrada: Território, hierarquia e lei no PCC (Editora Terceiro Nome)

Honorable Mention: Kathleen M. Millar (Simon Fraser University), Reclaiming the Discarded: Life and Labor on Rio's Garbage Dump (Duke University Press)
And Anne G. Hanley (Northern Illinois University), The Public Good and the Brazilian State: Municipal Finance and Public Services in São Paulo, 1822–1930(University of Chicago Press)

Best Article in Humanities - Melhor Artigo em Ciências Humanas (Antonio Candido Prize) 

Judges: Mary Ann Mahony and Pedro Rabelo Erber

Winner: Isabel Gómez, (University of Massachusetts, Boston) Gómez, Isabel. “Anti-Surrealism? Augusto de Campos ‘Untranslates’ Spanish-American Poetry.” Mutatis Mutandis, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 376–399.

Honorable Mention: César A. Braga-Pinto, (Northwestern University) Braga-Pinto, César A. “From Abolitionism to Blackface: The Vicissitudes of Uncle Tom in Brazil.” Uncle Tom’s Cabins: The Transnational History of America’s Most Mutable Book, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Stefka Mihaylova, U of Michigan P, 2018, pp. 225–257.
And Lena Oak Suk, (University of Louisiana, Lafayette) Suk, Lena Oak. “‘Only the Fragile Sex Admitted’: The Women’s Restaurant in 1920s São Paulo, Brazil.” Journal of Social History, vol. 51, no. 3, Spring 2018, pp. 592–620.

Best Article in Social Sciences - Melhor Artigo em Ciências Sóciais (Sérgio Buarque de Holanda prize) 

Judges: Cassia Roth, Fabrício H. Chagos Bastos, and Matthew Taylor

Winner: Charles H. Klein, (Portland State University); Sean T. Mitchell, (Rutgers University, Newark); and Benjamin Junge, (State University of New York-New Paltz) Klein, Charles H., et al. “Naming Brazil’s Previously Poor: ‘New Middle Class’ as an Economic, Political, and Experiential Category.” Economic Anthropology, vol. 5, no. 1, Jan. 2018, pp. 83–95.

Honorable Mention: Natália S. Bueno, (Emory University) Bueno, Natália S. “Bypassing the Enemy: Distributive Politics, Credit Claiming, and Nonstate Organizations in Brazil.” Comparative Political Studies, vol. 51, no. 3, Mar. 2018, pp. 304–340.

Best Dissertation in Humanities – Melhor Tese em Humanidades (Antonio Candido Prize)

Judges: Adriana Michele Campos Johnson, Leila Lehnen, Eli Lee Carter

Winner: Thaís Waldman (Universidade de São Paulo), Entre batismos e degolas: (des)caminhos bandeirantes em São Paulo

Honorable Mention: Andrew Graham Britt (Northwestern University), “I’ll Samba Someplace Else”: Constructing
Identity and Neighborhood in São Paulo

Best Dissertation in Social Sciences – Melhor Tese em Ciências Sóciais (Sérgio Buarque de Holanda prize) 

Judges: Ana Paula Camelo, Ivani Vassoler-Froelich, Laurie Denyer Willis

Winner: Meryleen Mena, (University of Colorado, Boulder) Women Detained: Justice and Institutional Violence in São Paulo’s Criminal Justice System

Honorable Mention: Pedro Mendes Loureiro (University of Cambridge), The Ebb and Flow of the Pink Tide: Reformist Development Strategies in Brazil and Argentina

And Juan Albarracín Dierolf (Universidad Icesi), Criminalized Electoral Politics. The Socio-Political Foundations of Electoral Coercion in Democratic Brazil

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LASA Brazil Section 2017, Section Prizes

Best Book Awards:

Social Sciences Award Winner: Sean T. Mitchell, Constellations of Inequality: Space, Race, and Utopia in Brazil (University of
Chicago Press).

Humanities Award Winner: Eve Buckley, Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in 20th Century Brazil (University of North Carolina Press).

Humanities Honorable Mention: Patricia Acerbi, Street Occupations: Urban Vending in Rio de Janeiro, 1850-1925 (University of
Texas Press).

Best Article Awards:

Social Sciences Award Winner: Letícia J. Marteleto, Luiz Gama, Molly Dondero and Letisha Brown. “The Weight of Inequality:
Socio-Economic Status and the Intergenerational Transmission of Child Nutrition in Brazil.” Social Forces.

Social Sciences Honorable Mentions: Katherine C. Jensen. “The epistemic logic of asylum screening: (dis)embodiment and the
production of asylum knowledge in Brazil.” Ethnic and Racial Studies.

and Jan Hoffman French. “Repensando a Violência Policial no Brasil: Desmascarando o Segredo Público da Raça.” Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia Universidade Federal de Sergipe.

Humanities Award Winner: Courtney Campbell. “Four Fishermen, Orson Welles, and the Making of the Brazilian Northeast.” Past; Present.

Humanities Honorable Mentions: Cassia Roth. “Policing Pregnancy: Reproduction, Poverty, and the Law in Early Twentieth-
Century Brazil.” Journal of Women's History.
and Eli Lee Carter. “Silence Behind the ‘Talk of Crime’: Representations of Violence in a Sample of Contemporary Brazilian Films and Television Series.” A Contra corriente: Una revista de estudios latinoamericanos.

Best Doctoral Dissertation Awards:

Social Sciences Award Winner: Laurie Denyer Willis. “The Salvific Sensorium: Pentecostal Life in Rio de Janeiro’s Subúrbios.” McGill University.

Social Sciences Honorable Mention: Juan P. Marsiaj. “Unpacking Social Movements’ Democratizing Impact: The Case of the
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Travesti Movement in Brazil.” University of Toronto.

Humanities Award Winner: Jacob Blanc. “The Price of Peace: Itaipú and the Meanings of Land and Opposition in Brazil, 1957-1984.” University of Wisconsin-Madison.