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 (2009)

Rosanne Adderley, Tulane University
Andrew McMichael, Western Kentucky University
Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University

For more information, contact:

Rosanne Adderley
Department of History
Tulane University
6823 St. Charles Ave
115 Hebert Hall
New Orleans, LA 70118
Phone: (504) 865-5162
Email: adderley at tulane.edu

Past Winners

• 2008: Leo B. Gorman, University of New Orleans: “Immigrant Labor Strife and Solidarity in Post-Katrina New Orleans”
  
  Prize Committee's description: “The 2008 LACS-SHA Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr. Prize was awarded to Leo Gorman, for his paper entitled, ‘Latino Migrant Labor Strife and Solidarity in Post-Katrina New Orleans, 2005-2007.’ The decision was not easy because of the high quality of papers received, but the committee decided in favor of Gorman for his creative use of source material, broad conception and ambitious nature of the topic, and the work's intellectual sophistication.  Gorman has produced an excellent account based on extensive interviews, and a fine historical study of Honduran Latino community in New Orleans before the storm.  We also felt that Gorman's presentation at the conference was excellent.”
   
• 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”