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

 

Kimberly S. Hanger Article Prize

 

The 2012 Kimberly S. Hanger Article Prize will be awarded to the best article appearing in 2011 in the fields of Latin American, Caribbean, American Borderlands and Frontiers, or Atlantic World history.  Authors must be or become LACS members at the time of submission.

 

Deadline: June 1, 2012

 

Send one electronic copy of the article to each to the following four prize committee members:

 

Omar Valerio-Jimenez, University of Iowa (Committe chair)

omar-valerio@uiowa.edu

Pamela Voekel, University of Georgia voekel@uga.edu

Kate Ramsey, University of Miami kramsey@miami.edu

Matt Childs, University of South Carolina (ex-oficio)

childsmd@mailbox.sc.edu

 



Past Winners

  • 2011:

    Christina Bueno, Northeastern Illinois University

    "Forjando Patrimonio: The Making of Archaeological Patrimony in Porfirian Mexico," Hispanic American Historical Review 90:2 (May 2010), 215-245.

  • 2010: Betsy Konefal, College of William and Mary, "Subverting Authenticity: Reinas Indígenas and the Guatemalan State, 1978," Hispanic American Historical Review, 89:1 (February 2009): 41-72.

  • 2009: David Carey, "'Oficios de su raza y sexo' (Occupations Consistent with Her Race and Sex): Mayan Women and Expanding Gender Identities in Early Twentieth-Century Guatemala." Journal of Women's History vol. 20, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 114-48.
  • 2008: Ida Altman, University of Florida, “The Revolt of Enriquillo and the Historiography of Early Spanish America,” The Americas, 63:4 (2007): 587-614.
  • 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.

  • 2002: Hal Langfur, "Uncertain Refuge: Frontier Formation and the Origins of the Botocudo War in Late-Colonial Brazil," Hispanic American Historical Review 82:2 (May 2002): 215-56.