LASA Sections

Dear Brazil Section Members:

We are very pleased to share the 2020 Section Prizes. Congratulations to all participants, prizewinners, honorable mentions, and judges! Your work will be recognized at the Brazil Section business meeting online.

Best wishes,

Adam and Nelson

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Caros membros da Seção Brasil:

É um prazer compartilhar abaixo a lista dos Prêmios 2020. Parabéns a todos os participantes, vencedores, menções honrosas e juízes. Seu trabalho será reconhecido na reunião da Seção Brasil online.

Saudações cordiais,

Adam and Nelson

LASA Brazil Section 2020, Section Prizes

Best Book in the Humanities - Melhor Livro em Humanidades (Antonio Candido Prize)

Judges: Charles A. Perrone, Robert Henry Moser, Ana Paulina Lee

Gustavo PT Furtado (Duke University), Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil: Cinematic Archives of the Present (Oxford University Press, 2019).

Honorable Mention:

Jessica Graham (UC San Diego), Shifting the Meaning of Democracy: Race, Politics, and Culture in the United States and Brazil (University of California Press, 2019).

And

Jacob Blanc (University of Edinburgh), Before the Flood: The Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil (Duke University Press, 2019)

Best Book Prize in Social Sciences - Melhor Livro em Ciências Sóciais (Sérgio Buarque de Holanda Prize)

Judges: Anne Hanley and Silvana Mariano

Rebecca Tarlau (Pennsylvania State University), Occupying Schools, Occupying Land: How the Landless Workers Movement Transformed Brazilian Education (Oxford University Press, 2019).

Honorable Mention:

Christopher Gibson (Simon Fraser University), Movement-Driven Development: The Politics of Health and Democracy in Brazil (Stanford University Press, 2019).

Best Article in Humanities - Melhor Artigo em Ciências Humanas (Antonio Candido Prize)

Judges: Ashley Brock, Gustavo PT Furtado, and Isabel Gómez

Mari Rodríguez Binnie (Williams College), “Dissident Bodies: Materialising Xerographic Experimentation in São Paulo 1970-1985.” Third Text 33.6: (2019): 745-760.

Honorable Mention:

Pedro Rabelo Erber (Cornell University). “Beautiful Money; or, What Can Contemporary Art Teach Us About the Neoliberal Economy?” Revista Hispánica Moderna 72.2 (2019): 149-159

Best Article in Social Sciences - Melhor Artigo em Ciências Sóciais (Sérgio Buarque de Holanda prize)

Judges: Charles Klein, Karina Kato, and Natalia S. Bueno

Graziella Morães Silva (The Graduate Institute Geneva); Luciana Souza Leão (University of Michigan, LSA Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellow); Bárbara Grillo (PPGSA/UFRJ; The City University of New York)

“Seeing Whites: Views of Black Brazilians in Rio de Janeiro.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 43.4 (2019): 632-651.

Honorable Mention:

Stefanie Israel de Souza (Tulane University, CIPR Post-Doctoral Fellow) “Pacification of Rio's Favelas and the ‘Pacification of the Pacification Police’: The Role of Coordinating Brokerage in Police Reform.” Sociological Forum 34.2 (June 2019): 458-482.

Best Dissertation in Humanities – Melhor Tese em Humanidades (Antonio Candido Prize)

Judges: Dain Borges, Rebeca Errázuriz, Thaís Waldman

Lúcia Klück Stumpf (Ph.D. Universidade de São Paulo), Fragmentos de guerra: Imagens e visualidades da guerra contra o Paraguai (1865-1881). Ph.D., Antropologia Social.

Honorable Mention:

Daniel Mandur Thomaz (Ph.D., St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford), A Brazilian at the BBC War-Front: Entertainment, Propaganda and Modernism in Antônio Callado’s Radio Dramas for the Latin American Service (1941-1947). Ph.D. in Modern Languages.

And

Eyal Weinberg (University of Texas at Austin), Tending to the Body Politic: Doctors, Military Repression, and Transitional Justice in Brazil (1961-1988). Ph.D. in History.

Best Dissertation in Social Sciences – Melhor Tese em Ciências Sóciais (Sérgio Buarque de Holanda prize)

Judges: Jessica Jerome, Karina Biondi, and Pedro Mendes Loureiro

Lorena Féres da Silva Telles (Ph.D., Universidade de São Paulo), Teresa Benguela e Felipa Crioula estavam grávidas: maternidade e escravidão no Rio de Janeiro (século XIX). Ph.D, Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH)