Brazil

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