Mexico

LASA Mexico Section Awards 2025

Prizes In 2024, Karageorgou organized the LASA Section Awards by forming juries per category and receiving and organizing submissions.

The 2025 Best Doctoral Dissertation winners were:

Marissa Nichols,  “Nurses, Indigenous Authorities, and Rural Health in Oaxaca, Mexico, 1934-1970”

and the Honorific Mention in the same category went to:

Verónica Valencia González, “Global Influences, Local Realitiess: Unraveling Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Michoacan.”

The Prize to the Best Article in the Humanities went to:

Alejandro Quintero Machler, for “Autopsy, Patrimony, and a Christianized Reforma: Manuel Ramírez Aparicio’s Mexican Conventual History (1861-1862).”

And the Honorific Mention in the same category went to Ana Romero Valderrama for “Sangre revuelta, virtud y civilización: Usos politicos de las ascendencias asociadas a Vicente Guerrero.”

The Prize to Best Article in the Social Sciences was for:

Julie Weise and Christopher Rass for “Migrating Concepts: The Transatlantic Origins of the Bracero Program, 1919-1942.”

The Prize for Best Book in the Humanities went to:

Carolyn Fornoff, Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change,

and the Honorific Mentions went to:

Kevin Anzzolin for Guardians of Discourse: Journalism and Literature in Porfirian Mexico;

Jorge Quintana for Biocosmism. Vitality and the Utopian Imagination in Postrecolucionary Mexico;

and Amy Wright for Serial Mexico: Storytelling across Media, from Nationhood to Now.

The Prize for the Best Book in Social Science was for:

Ieva Jusionyte for Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border; and

Honorific Mention went to Elizabeth O’Brien for Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-1940.

Premios 2024 de la sección México de LASA / LASA Mexico Section Awards 2024

Premio al Mejor Libro en Humanidades

The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico by Danielle Terrazas Williams (University of Leeds).

Mención honorífica:

Mexico Interrupted. Labor, Idleness, and the Economic Imaginary of Independence by Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón (Oberlin College).

Jurado:

Ana Sabau Fernández, University of Michigan

José Roberto Cruz Arzabal, Universidad Veracruzana

Oswaldo Zavala, College of Staten Island, CUNY

Philippe Meers, University of Antwerp

Premio al Mejor Libro en Ciencias Sociales

Bootstrap Justice: The Search for Mexico’s Disappeared by Janice K. Gallagher, Rutgers University.

Jurado:

Vicente Moctezuma, CIESAS México

Nora Jaffary, Concordia University

Jurgen Buchenau, University of North Carolina Charlotte

Doug Sullivan Gonzalez, University of Mississippi

Premio al Mejor Artículo en Humanidades

“Reflexive Extractivist Aesthetics” de Carolyn Fornoff, Cornell University.

Mención honorífica:

“Cultura afrobarroca mexicana: Soberanía negra en las calles de la ciudad de México, 1610” de Miguel A. Valerio, Washington University in St. Louis.

Jurado:

Greg Schelonka, Louisiana Tech University

Pavel Andrade, University of Pennsylvannia

Samanta Ordoñez, Wake Forest University

Premio al Mejor Artículo en Ciencias Sociales

“The Right to a Favor: International Scholarship, Clientelism, and the Class Politics of Merit in Post-Revolutionary Mexico” by Rachel Grace Newman, Colgate University

Jurado:

Xóchitl Bada, University of Illinois Chicago

Ángel Escamilla García, Yale University

Heidi Smith, Universidad Iberoamericana

Premio a la Mejor Disertación

“The Only Correct Line: A Transnational History of French Maoism in Catholic Mexico during the Late Sixties” de Jorge Puma Crespo (Ph.D. University of Notre Dame), Hope College

Mención honorífica:

“Cultivating Drug Wars: Illicit Markets, Violence, and the State in Mexico” por Joel Salvador Herrera (Ph.D. UCLA).

Jurado:

Jannette Amaral Rodríguez, University of Richmond

Amy Carroll, University of California San Diego

Stuart A. Day, University of Kansas

Premios 2023 de la sección México de LASA / LASA Mexico Section Awards 2023

Premio: Best Book in the Humanities

Author: Ana Sabau (University of Michigan)

Title: Riot and Rebellion in Mexico: The Making of a Race War Paradigm

Two honorable mentions:

Author: Diana Montaño (Washington University in St Louis)

Title: Electrifying Mexico: Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City

Author: Oswaldo Zavala (CUNY-Graduate Center; Staten Island)

Title: La guerra en las palabras. Una historia intelectual del narco en México.

Premio: Best Book in Social Sciences

Author: Vicente Moctezuma (UNAM, Instituto de Investigaciones sociales)

Title: El desvanecimiento de lo popular

Honorable mention:

Author: David Tavarez (Vassar College)

Title: Rethinking Zapotec Time: Cosmology, Ritual, and Resistance in Colonial Mexico.

Premio: Best Article in Social Sciences

Author: Gabriela Soto Laveaga (Harvard University)

Title: “Beyond Borlaug's Shadow: Octavio Paz, Indian Farmers, and the Challenge of Narrating the Green Revolution”

Honorable mention:

Author: Angel A. Escamilla Garcia (Yale University)

Title: “The Borderlandization of Mexico: Mexico’s New Policies of Deportation and Detention of Minor Migrants and their Effects on Migrant Movement.”

Premio: Best Article in the Humanities

Author: Kristie Flannery (Australian Catholic University)

Title: “Can the Devil Cross the Deep Blue Sea? Imagining the Spanish Pacific and Vast Early America from Below.” The William and Mary Quarterly 79, no. 1 (2022): 31-60. doi:10.1353/wmq.2022.0004.

Honorable Mentions:

Author: Pavel Andrade (University of Cincinnati)

Title: “Capitalist Thresholds: La muerte de Artemio Cruz and the Mapmaking of Modern Mexico.” Symposium, vol. 76, no. 3, 2022, pp. 127–40. https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2022.2127197.

Author: Alfonso Fierro (Kenyon College)

Title: “Modeling the Urban Commune: Collective Housing, Utopian Architecture, and Social Reproduction in the Mexican 1930s”, Mexican Studies/EstudiosMexicanos Vol. 38, Issue 2, Summer 2022, pages 272–299.

Premio: Best Dissertation

Author: Angel Escamilla García (Yale University)

Title: "Knowledge, Place, and Experience in the Migrant Journey: How Central American Migrant Youth Negotiate Violence in Mexico"

Honorable mentions:

Author: Diana Méndez Rojas

Title: "Modernizar la agricultura, movilizar las ideas: trayectorias de los becarios de la fundación Rockefeller"

Author: Alejandra Vela Martínez

Title: "Cursis feministas: revistas para mujeres, memoria y canon literario en México"

Thanks to the committees for the excellent work!

Libro humanidades: Tamara L. Mitchell (chair), Susan Antebi, Aurea Toxqui, Rafael Lemus, David Dalton

Libro ciencias sociales: Teresa Vázquez (chair), Corinna Zeltsman, Michael Snodgrass, Kathleen Bruhn y Melixa Abad Izquierdo

Artículo ciencias sociales: Alan Malfavón (Chair), Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, Jaime Ortega, Humberto Morales

Artículo humanidades: Niamh Thornton (chair), Sophie Esch, Carolyn Fornoff, Ivonne del Valle

Tesis: Jorge Quintana-Navarrette (chair), Viridiana Hernandez Fernández, Iván Ramírez de Garay, Mary K. Long

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