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

 

The LACS-SHA Article Prize
Submission deadline for articles published in 2008: June 15, 2009

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 an electronic or hard copy of the article (or a single electronic version) to each member of the prize committee.

Article Prize Committee:

Ida Altman, Committee Chair
Department of History
University of Florida
PO Box 117320
Gainesville, FL 3611-7320
ialtman at ufl.edu

Frank “Trey” Proctor
Department of History
Fellows Hall, Room 428
Dennison University
Granville, OH 43023
proctor at denison.edu

Justin Wolfe
Department of History
Tulane University
6823 St. Charles Ave
115 Hebert Hall
New Orleans, LA 70118
jwolfe at tulane.edu

Past Winners

  • 2008: Ida Altman, University of Florida, “The Revolt of Enriquillo and the Historiography of Early Spanish America,” The Americas, 63:4 (2007): 587-614.

    Prize Committee's description: “Enrique's 1519 revolt, the best known of the early rebellions in Spanish American history, is the subject of Altman's award-winning article.  More than a retelling of well-known events surrounding the revolt, Altman's article gives larger meaning to the rebellion, the major and minor players involved, and the precedents it set.  This outstanding work, based in primary research, reminds us how significant the Caribbean was, not only as a site of Spanish-indigenous interaction but also as a testing ground for Spanish policies and practices that were relevant for centuries to come.”
     

  • 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.