Brazil

A Section of the Latin American Studies Association

Winners LASA Brasil Section Prizes

Apr 13, 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)