Brazil

LASA Brazil Awards 2024: Congratulations to the winners
 
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 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 TESE EM CIENCIAS 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)

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 (Institute Federal of Minas Gerais – IFMG))
  The Art of the Present in the Country of the Future: Remediations of Brasília in Contemporary Art
• Honorable Mention (two): 
  Luisa Valle (City University of New York)
  The Beehive, the Favela, the Castle, and the Ministry: Race and Modern Architecture in Rio de Janeiro, 1811 to 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 ARTIGO EM CIÊNCIAS SOCIAS/ 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, 54(3), 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.Volume 128 Number 1 (July 2022): 1–46.

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

Jurors: Cacilda Bomfim (Federal Institute of Maranhão – IFMG) Diana Klinger (Fluminense Federal University (UFF), Krista Brune (Penn 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 (2022), 1–32.
• Honorable Mention: Oscar de la Torre (The University of North Carolna at Charlotte),  The Well That Wept Blood - Ghostlore, Haunted Waterscapes, and the Politics of Quilombo Blackness in Amazonia (Brazil). The American Historical Review, Volume 127, Issue 4, December 2022, Pages 1635–1658.

 

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)

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