Nineteenth Century

INFORME ANUAL DE LA SECCION NINETEENTH CENTURY

2022-2023

• Reunión de Negocios, 5/24/23

o Asistieron 11 personas

o Se presentaron los premios

o Se habló del estado de la sección

o Conversamos ideas para el futuro

• Elecciones:

o Chair: Carlos Gustavo Halaburda, University of Toronto, 2023-2025

o Secretario/tesorero: Álvaro Kaempfer, Gettysburg College, 2023-2025

o Vanesa Miseres,  University of Notre Dame, 2023-2025

o Catalina Rodríguez, Boston University, 2023-2025

o Savannah Saavedra, Miami University, 2023-2025

o Ana Isabel Simon Alegre, Adelphi University, 2023-2025

o Pablo Martínez Gramuglia, Universidad de Navarra, 2023-2025

o Ana Romero, sigue sólo hasta el 2024.

• Premios:

o Todos los premios fueron elegidos por un comité de 3 personas que leyeron todos los textos y luego se reunió por Zoom y por email para decidir.

o Premio Mejor Libro

 Ganadora: Pamela Voekel, Darmouth College. For God and Liberty: Catholicism and Revolution in the Atlantic World. Oxford University Press, 2022.

 Mención honorífica: Adriana Chira, Emory University. Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race Beyond Cuba’s Plantations. Cambridge University Press, 2022.

 Comité de Selección: Emmanuel Heredia González (Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán), Daniel Hernández Quiñones (Universidad Católica de Eichstätt-Ingolstadt), Sarah Moody (University of Alabama)

o Premio Mejor Artículo

 Ganador: David Horacio Colmenares, University of California, Irvine “Postreros acentos de la lira indiana”: The Discovery of the Cantares mexicanos in the Nineteenth Century” Hispanic American Historical Review 102:3 (2022): 415-448.

 Mención honorífica: Vanesa Miseres, Universidad of Notre Dame, "La guerra del Paraguay y sus otras alianzas: las memorias de Dorothéa Duprat y el Libro de Oro.” A Contra corriente, una revista de estudios latinoamericanos, Vol. 19, Núm. 2 (Winter 2022): 8-34.

 Comité de Selección: Agnes Lugo-Ortiz (University of Chicago), Mercedes Fernández-Asenjo (Binghampton University), Ricardo Fernández Castillo (UNAM)

o Premio Mejor Tesis

 Ganadora: Catalina Rodríguez, Boston University, "Escribe como mujer: seudónimos de género e impostaciones de lo femenino en el siglo XIX latinoamericano.”

 Ganadora: Lorena Campuzano Duque, Binghamton University, "The People's Gold: Race and Vernacular Mining in the Ailing Landscapes of Antioquia, Colombia, 1540-1958"

 Comité de Selección: Aarti S. Madan (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Carlos Halaburda (University of Toronto), Laura Cucchi (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

• Becas de registración/viaje:

No hubo postulantes, así que no se otorgó ninguna.

• Actividades realizadas

o Se organizaron dos sesiones de “Works in Progress” donde presentaron miembros de la sección

o Para LASA 2023, organizamos 2 sesiones auspiciadas, “Digital Archives in the Nineteenth Century” y “Las revoluciones europeas de 1848 en América Latina”

o También organizamos un panel especial llamado “New(ish) Books in Nineteenth Century Studies”, en el cual se presentaron 9 libros publicados por miembros de la sección entre 2020 y 2023. También se distribuyeron marcadores de libros con esta información y los títulos de los libros premiados por la sección en los últimos años.

• Planes para el futuro:

o Seguir tratando de hacer el congreso accesible para todes

o Fomentar relaciones con otras secciones relacionadas

2021-2022

• Reunión de Negocios, 5/6/22

o Asistieron 6 personas (muchos no pudieron asistir por la hora)

o Se presentaron los premios

o Se habló del estado de la sección

o Conversamos ideas para el futuro y desarrollamos una encuesta que enviamos a toda la membresía

•Elecciones:

No hubo elecciones. El board actual consiste en:

o Chair: Ashley Elizabeth Kerr

o Secretario/tesorero: Emmanual Velayos Larrabure

o María Alejandra Aguilar Dornelles

o Sandra Araya Rojas

o Victor Goldgel Carballo

o Andrew Reynolds

o Ana Romero

o Héctor Strobel

• Premios:

o Todos los premios fueron elegidos por un comité de 3 personas que leyeron todos los textos y luego se reunió por Zoom y por email para decidir.

o Premio Mejor Libro

• Ganadora: Yesenia Barragán, Rutgers University. Freedom's Captives. Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific. Cambridge UP, 2021.
• Mención honorífica: Corinna Zeltsman, Georgia Southern University. Ink Under the Fingernails: Printing Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico. U of California P, 2021.
• Comité de Selección: Brendan Lanctot (University of Puget Sound), Ana Peluffo (University of California, Davis) y Joshua Savala (Rollins College)

o Premio Mejor Artículo

• Ganadora: Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, University of Chicago. “After Redemption and Abandonment: José Antonio Aponte's Libro de pinturas in the Field of Visual Portraiture.” Colonial Latin American Review 30.2 (2021): 305-340.
• Mención honorífica: David Sartorius, University of Maryland. “Transitory Trust: Falsified Passports, Circulars, and Other Speculations in Nineteenth-Century Cuba.” Journal of Social History 55.1 (2021): 7-26.
• Comité de Selección: Magdalena Candioti (CONICET/Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana “Dr. Emilio Ravignani,” University of Buenos Aires), Casey Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University) y Thomas Ward (Loyola University Maryland)

o Premio Mejor Tesis

• Ganadora: Farren Yero, “Laboratories of Consent: Vaccine Science in the Spanish Atlantic World,” 1779-1840. Duke University, 2020.
• Mención honorífica: Alan Alexander Malfavon, Washington State University. “Kin of the Leeward Port: Afro-Mexicans in Veracruz in the Making of State Formation, Contested Spaces, and Regional Development, 1770-1830.” University of California-Riverside, 2021.
• Comité de Selección: Pablo Martínez Gramuglia (Universidad de Navarra), Luz Ainaí Morales Pino (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) y Elizabeth O’Brien (Johns Hopkins University)

• Becas de registración/viaje

No hubo postulantes, así que no se otorgó ninguna.

• Actividades realizadas

o Como fue el primer año para todos los miembros de la mesa directiva, este año nos enfocamos en aprender las tareas básicas de la sección: paneles auspiciados, becas de registración/viaje, premios y promoción del trabajo de los miembros de la sección en las redes sociales y en el Congreso de LASA

o Se creó una encuesta que se compartió con la membresía, pidiendo sus opiniones sobre qué debemos priorizar este año

• Planes para el futuro:

o Seguir tratando de hacer el congreso accesible para todes

o Fomentar relaciones con otras secciones relacionadas

o Organizar un seminario virtual de works in progress y/o un programa de mentorship

2020-2021

Report prepared by Sections Co-chairs, Ana Sabau and Mayra Bottaro, on June 29th, 2021.

The Nineteenth Century Section held its business meeting at this year’s Congress with twenty members in virtual attendance, on May 27th 2021, as scheduled in the Program. The business meeting was conducted in English and Spanish by both co-chairs Ana Sabau and Mayra Bottaro. Three members of the Advisory Board were present: Carolina Alzate, Brendan Lanctot, and Corinna Zeltsman.

Order of business:

• Acknowledgements and expressions of gratitude to section members (116), LASA team (Ghisselle Blanco and Paloma Díaz Lobos), current Treasurer (Corinna Zelstman) and Advisory Board (Carlos Abreu Mendoza, Felipe Martínez Pinzón, Susan Hallstead, Carolina Alzate, Brendan Lanctot), and members of Award Committees.

• Introduction of new incoming Board and report of election outcomes:

Chair: Ashley Elizabeth Kerr, PhD. Idaho U

Secretary/Treasurer: Emmanuel Velayos Larrabure, PhD. CUNY

Board members

1. Maria Alejandra Aguilar Dornelles, PhD. FIU – 43 votes

2. Victor Goldgel, PhD. U of Wisconsin, Madison – 39 votes

3. Ana Romero, PhD. UBA –  38 votes

4. Sandra Araya Rojas, doctoral candidate King’s College, London –  33 votes

5. Hector Strobel del Moral, PhD. Colmex –  27 votes

6. Andrew Reynolds, PhD. West Texas A&M University – 27 votes

Not elected: Alvaro Kaempfer (25) and Rodrigo Caresani (23)

• Discussion about two Section Sponsored Roundtable Sessions, attendance, and procedure to select topics and presenters:

• Discussions about Social Media outreach:

1). Continuous increase in Facebook Membership (964 members);

2). Instagram account;

3). Twitter handle;

4). Gmail account to manage emails siglo.xix.lasa@gmail.com

• Activities sponsored by section:

• Discussion about transformation of two Travel Scholarships into Grants to cover membership costs and LASA registration due to pandemic-related travel restrictions (for 2020 awardee Rodrigo Caresani-UNTREF, Argentina). Pending status: awardee Evelyn Sotomayor (Evelyn.sotomayor@pucp.pe), who chose to postpone her grant for travel to LASA2022 (amount $400).

• Awards Presentations:

1. Introduction of Members of the Jury:

Best Dissertation in the Nineteenth Century: Erika Pani (El Colegio de México), James Sanders (Utah State University), Marcel Velázquez Castro (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima).

Best Article in the Nineteenth Century: Pablo Piccato (Columbia University), Daylet Domínguez (UC, Berkeley), Mariana Libertad (PUCP-Pontificia Universidad Católica de Perú).

Best Book in the Nineteenth Century: William G. Acree (Washington University St. Louis), Fernando Degiovanni (CUNY-Graduate Center), Alicia B. Ríos (Syracuse University).

2. Certificate of Awards and presentation of excerpts by the Jury:

Best Dissertation in the Nineteenth Century-2019-2020: PRIZE: $100

First Prize: Elizabeth Aislinn O’Brien, Intimate Interventions: The Cultural Politics of Reproductive Surgery in Mexico, 1790-1940. The University of Texas at Austin, 2019.

Honorable Mention: Héctor M. Strobel del Moral, El ejército liberal durante la revolución de Ayutla y la Reforma, 1854-1861. El Colegio de México, Ciudad de México, 2020.

Best Article in the Nineteenth Century-2020: PRIZE: $100

First Prize: Magdalena Candioti, “Un manual para formar negros piadosos. Religión, política y raza en la Buenos Aires rosista”. En Guzmán, F y Ghidoli, ML, El asedio a la libertad. Abolición y Post-abolición en el Cono Sur. Buenos Aires, Biblos, 2020.

Best Book in the Nineteenth Century-2020:PRIZE: $100

First Prize: Ashley Elizabeth Kerr. Sex, Skulls, Citizens: Gender and Racial Science in Argentina (1860-1910). Vanderbilt UP, 2020.

• Presentation of financial Report 2020-2021 prepared by Secretary of Treasury, Corinna Zelstman. Balance: $ $1,768.32

• Announcement of LARC (Latin American Research Commons).

• Future projects in discussion:

1. Work for the Newsletter was unfinished, but Treasurer Corinna Zelstman offered to pass on the materials and formats produced so far so that the new committee takes it up.

2. Proposal for LASA Siglo XIX to sponsor a YouTube channel for tertulias and encounters and to host talks.

3. Proposal for LASA Siglo XIX to sponsor Working Groups on dedicated topics (19th Visual Culture, for example).

4. Two sessions sponsored by section for 2022 (format TBD).

5. Proposal for introduction of section for syllabi compilation in the Section’s portal.

6. Proposal for Name Change for the Section Prizes and call for suggestions and votes.

• Open discussion and questions.

2019-2020

Report prepared by Sections Co-chairs: Mayra Bottaro (U Oregon) and Ana Sabau (U Michigan)

The Nineteenth Century Section held its business meeting virtually via Zoom at this year’s Congress with fifteen members in attendance, on May 14, 2020. The business meeting was conducted in English by both co-chairs. One member of the Advisory Board was present: Secretary of Treasury, Ty West (Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame).

Order of business:

Ongoing board members:

Co-Chairs:

• Mayra Bottaro, PhD. University of Oregon

• Ana Sabau, PhD. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Secretaries/Treasurers

• Corinna Zeltsman, PhD. Georgia Southern University

Board members

• Carlos Abreu Mendoza, PhD. Texas State

• Brendan Lanctot, PhD. Puget Sound

• Susan Hallstead, PhD. Colorado, Boulder

• Felipe Martínez Pinzón, PhD. Brown U

 • Carolina Alzate, PhD. Universidad de los Andes

Acknowledhments:

-To outgoing member Ty West, PhD. Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame

-Section members

-LASA Sections Coordinator Ghisselle Blanco, Social Media coordinator, Paloma Díaz-Lobos, and Executive Director, Milagros Pereyra-Rojas.

-Committee Members

Discussions:

-Current membership: steady increase of numbers 116 members by May 2020.

-Discusssion about sponsored sessions and reasons for their cancellation. They are moved to LASA 2021.

Round Table: “Thinking Race in the 19th century: New Critical Approaches”

Mercedes López Rodríguez, Ana Paulina Lee, Marixa Lasso, Víctor Goldgel Carballo, José Ragas, David Sartorius, Dixa Ramírez, Michel Gobat, Sybille Fischer, Yuko Miki.

Round Table: “Thinking the Nineteenth Century: New Critical Interventions”

Ana María Otero Cleves, Alejandra Laera, Vanesa Miseres, Shawn McDaniel, Gabriela Nouzeilles, Nathalie Bouzaglou.

-Increase in the amount of members in social media from 478 members (2019) to 604 (May 2020) to 656 (August 2020) in Facebook. Increased activity on Twitter and Instagram platforms. Future plans for social media outreach.

-Discussion of introduction of future Newsletter (in preparation).

-Awards Presentations:

Introduction of Members of the Jury:

• Best Dissertation in the Nineteenth Century-2020: James E. Sanders (Utah State University); Erika Pani (El Colegio de México); Marcel Velázquez (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos)
• Best Article in the Nineteenth Century-2020: Irina Podgorny (CONICET /Archivo Histórico Universidad Nacional de La Plata); Adriana Chira (Emory University); Ignacio Sánchez Prado (Washington University, St. Louis)
• Best Book in the Nineteenth Century-2020: Shelley Garrigan (NC State University); Agnes Lugo-Ortiz (University of Chicago); Michel Gobat (University of Pittsburgh)

Certificate of Awards:

• Best Dissertation in the Nineteenth Century-2020: no winner declared. Insufficient submissions to evaluate a first prize.
• Best Article in the Nineteenth Century-2018: PRIZE: $100

First Prize: Emmanuel Velayos (CUNY, Hostos) “Painting Words, Drawing Republics: Embodied Arts and New Beginnings in Simón Rodríguez” in Hispanic Review, vol. 87 no. 2, 2019, p. 133-158.

Honorable Mention: Sarah J. Townsend (Penn State College) “The Siren’s Song; or, When an Amazonian Iara Sang Opera (in Italian) on a Belle Époque Stage” in Latin American Theatre Review, vol. 52 no. 2, 2019, p. 149-167.

• Best Book in the Nineteenth Century-2020

First Prize: -William G. Acree. Staging Frontiers. The Making of Modern Popular Culture in Argentina and Uruguay. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019. -Joseph Pierce. Argentine Intimacies: Queer Kinship in an Age of Splendor, 1890−1910. Albany: SUNY Press, 2019.

Honorable Mention: Casey Marina Lurtz. From the Grounds Up: Building an Export Economy in Southern Mexico. Redwood City: Stanford UP, 2019.

-Presentation of financial Report 2019-2020 prepared by Secretary of Treasury, Ty West. Balance for 2019-2020: $1,698.32*

- Announcement of two Travel Scholarships winners for LASA 2020: Evelyn Sotomayor Martínez (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú); Rodrigo Caresani (UNTREF). Both winners will defer the award of $400 for travel or Membership/Registration costs for LASA 2021.

-Discussion of NEW initiative: Newsletter (format, distribution, etc.)

-Discussion of fundraising initiative.

-Discussion of Pre-LASA Symposium. •

-Visibility of Nineteenth Century networks from Latin America (RIEL-PERU XIX; REDLE XIX Chile; etc.)

-Discussion of future FB Live sessions and interviews and follow up of ideas from meeting LASA 2019: recording of Section Roundtables on youtube channel; creation of a youtube channel for the section; introduction of section for syllabi compilation in the Section’s portal; introduction of a new Section Newsletter (conferences, publications by section members; access to archival repositories; digital collections); Name Change for the Section Prizes and call for suggestions and votes; plan for a Section Calendar of Events for LASA 2020; announcement of potential working groups.

-Open discussion and questions.

2018-2019

Report prepared by Sections Co-chairs: Ana Peluffo (UC Davis) and Mayra Bottaro (U Oregon).

Information taken from Powerpoint presentation.

The Nineteenth Century Section held its business meeting at this year’s Congress with twenty five members in attendance at the SB Beacon D, Sheraton Hotel, Boston, Massachussetts, on Sunday, May 26th 2019, from 5:45-7:15pm. The business meeting was conducted in English by both co-chairs Ana Peluffo and Mayra Bottaro. Two members of the Advisory Board were present: Sarah Moody (U Alabama) and Secretary of Treasury, Ty West (Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame).

Order of business:

• Introduction of new Board and report of election outcomes:

Co-Chairs:

• Ana Sabau, PhD. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• Mayra Bottaro, PhD. University of Oregon

Secretaries/Treasurers:

• Ty West, PhD. Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame

• Corinna Zeltsman, PhD. Georgia Southern University

Board members:

• Carlos Abreu Mendoza, PhD. Texas State

t• Brendan Lanctot, PhD. Puget Sound

• Susan Hallstead, PhD. Colorado, Boulder

• Felipe Martínez Pinzón, PhD. Brown U

• Carolina Alzate, PhD. Universidad de los Andes

• Discussion of ideas to increase Section Membership:

102 members by March report.

• Discussion about Section Sponsored sessions, attendance, and procedure to select topics and presenters:

Sponsored Panel: “Otros héroes 1: Escritoras y heroísmo al final del siglo diecinueve”. Organizer: Vanesa Miseres (Notre Dame University)

Sponsored Roundtable: “Thinking the Nineteenth Century: New Critical Interventions” [Graciela Montaldo; Linda del Castillo; Joseph Pierce; Francesca Denegri]

• Discussion regarding success of Roundtable on “Thinking the 19th century: New Critical Interventions”. Proposal to sponsor two Roundtables for LASA 2020. 

• Discussions about Social Media outreach:

1). Contniuous increase in Facebook Membership (478 members).

2). Plan to update LASA Section webpage and Twitter account.

• Discussion of introduction of future Newsletter.

• Awards Presentations:

1. Introduction of Members of the Jury:

• Best Dissertation in the Nineteenth Century-2019: Felipe Martínez-Pinzón; Corinna Seltzman; Alejandra Uslenghi
• Best Article in the Nineteenth Century-2019: Jeffrey Cedeño; Rodrigo Caresani; Leila Gómez
• Best Book in the Nineteenth Century-2019: Claudia Román; Jossiana Arroyo; Juan Pablo Dabove

2. Certificate of Awards and presentation of excerpts by the Jury:

Best Dissertation in the Nineteenth Century-2018: PRIZE: $100

First Prize: María Cecilia Ulrickson, “Esclavos que fueron in Santo Domingo, 1768-1844”. 2018. University of Notre Dame.

Honorable Mention: M. Candela Marini, War, Photography, and Visual Citizens: Territorial and Visual Expansion in the Construction of Chile and Argentina (1860-1880s). Duke University.

Best Article in the Nineteenth Century-2018: PRIZE: $100

First Prize: Adriana Chira, "Affective Debts: Manumission by Grace and the Making of Gradual Emancipation Laws in Cuba, 1817–68," Law and History Review 36.1 (Winter 2018): 1-33. Emory University.

Honorable Mention: Sandra M. Szir, “El fabricante de imágenes César Hipólito Bacle y el establecimiento de la litografía en Buenos Aires (1828- 1838)”, en Fabio Ares (comp.), En torno a la Imprenta de Buenos Aires (1780-1940), Buenos Aires, Dirección General Patrimonio, Museos y Casco Histórico, 2018, pp. 105-134.

Best Book in the Nineteenth Century-2018: PRIZE: $100

First Prize: Michel Gobat. Empire by Invitation: William Walker and Manifest Destiny in Central America. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2018. 

Honorable Mention: Yuko Miki. Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil. Cambridge, Massachussetts: Cambridge UP, 2018.

• Presentation of financial Report 2018-2019 prepared by Secretary of Treasury, Ty West. Balance for 2019-2020: $964.32.

• Discussion of NEW initiative: Announcement of two Travel Scholarships for LASA 2020.

• Presentation of proposals for 2020 by Mayra Bottaro: recording of Section Roundtables on youtube channel; creation of a youtube channel for the section; introduction of section for syllabi compilation in the Section’s portal; introduction of a new Section Newsletter (conferences, publications by section members; access to archival repositories; digital collections); Name Change for the Section Prizes and call for suggestions and votes; plan for a Section Calendar of Events for LASA 2020; announcement of potential working groups; announcement of special dossier (Journal REH); announcement of edited collection: Cambridge Transitions and Routledge.

• Open discussion and questions.