LACS The Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association

The LACS-SHA Article Prize
Submission deadline for articles published in 2006 or 2007: June 1, 2008

LACS awards its Article Prize each year to the best article published on any aspect of Latin American, Caribbean, Borderlands or Atlantic World history during the previous two years by a Lacs-SHA member.

Authors must be or become members of LACS-SHA in order for their articles to be considered.

Send 4 copies of the article (or a single electronic version) to the article prize committee chair, Jay Clune, by June 1, 2008 :

Jay Clune
Department of History
University of West Florida
Bldg. 50
11000 University Parkway
Pensacola, FL 32514
Phone: (850) 474-2680
(jclune at uwf.edu)

Article Prize Committee:

Jay Clune, UWF, Committee Chair
Juliana Barr, University of Florida
Doug Sullivan-Gonzalez, University of Mississippi
Joann Supplee, Baylor University

Past Winners

• 2006: “Madness, Neurasthenia, and "Modernity": Medico-Legal and Popular Interpretations of Suicide in Early Twentieth-Century Lima,” Latin American Research Review - Volume 39, Number 2, 2004, pp. 89-113.
• 2004:  “The Black Blood of New Spain:  Limpieza de Sangre, Racial Violence, and Gendered Power in Early Colonial Mexico,” William and Mary Quarterly, July 2004.