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

The Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. Prize

Each year LACS awards a prize in honor of Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. for best graduate student paper on Latin American and Caribbean, Borderlands or Atlantic World history presented at the 2008 SHA meeting.

Committee Members

William Connell, Christopher Newport University, Committee Chair
Rosanne Adderley, Vanderbilt University
Matt Childs, Florida State University

Past Winners

• 2007: Tatiana Seijas, Yale University, “Indios Chinos in Colonial Mexico’s Republica de
  Indios”
• 2006: Pablo Gomez, Vanderbilt University, “Slavery and Disability in Cartagena de Indias,
  Nuevo Reino de Granada”