Winners LASA Brasil Section Prizes
Apr 13, 2023
Caros membros da Seção Brasil
Temos a honra de anunciar os vencedores do Prêmio da Seção Brasil 2023, 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 avaliar tantos trabalhos.
LASA BRAZIL AWARDS 2023
Congratulations to the winners
· MELHOR LIVRO EM CIÊNCIAS SOCIAIS / BEST BOOK IN SOCIAL SCIENCES (SÉRGIO BUARQUE DE HOLANDA PRIZE)
Presented by the Brazil section
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)
Presented by the Brazil section
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)
Presented by the Brazil section
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)
Presented by the Brazil section
Jurors: Rex Nielson (Brigham Young University), César Braga Pinto (Northwestern University)
· Winner:
Alice Hereen (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
Presented by the Brazil section
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 (Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Maranhão (IFMA), Diana Klinger (Universidade Federal Fluminense),
Krista Brune (Penn State University)
· Winner: Andrew G. Britt 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 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
Paulo Andrade