News & Notes
Haiti-Dominican Republic Section Prizes
Apr 25, 2018
Name of Prize: Isis Duarte Book Prize
Winner: Elizabeth Manley
• Institution: Xavier University
• Title of work: The Paradox of Paternalism
Honorable Mention: Toni Pressley-Sanon
• Institution: Eastern Michigan University
• Title of work: Istwa Across the Water
Name of Prize: Section Article Prize
Winner: Ana Rodriguez Navas
• Institution: Loyola University Chicago
• Title of work: Words as Weapons: Gossip in Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Honorable Mention: Christina Cecelia Davidson
• Institution: Duke University
• Title of work: Disruptive Silences: The AME Church and Dominican-Haitian Relations
Name of Prize: Guy Alexandre Paper Prize
Winner: Eve Hayes de Kalaf
• Institution: University of Aberdeen
• Title of work: Making Foreign: Legal Identity, Social Policy and the Contours of Belonging in the Contemporary Dominican Republic