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

The Murdo J. MacLeod Book Prize

The 2012 Murdo J. MacLeod Book Prize will be awarded for the best book published in 2011 in the fields of Latin America, Caribbean, American Borderlands and Frontiers, or Atlantic World history. Authors must be or become LACS members at he time of submission.

Deadline June 1, 2012 

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

Edward Wright-Rios (committee chair)
Department of History
PMB 351802
2301 Vanderbilt Place
Nashville, TN 37235-1802
edward.wright-rios@vanderbilt.edu

Reinaldo Román
University of Georgia
Department of History
LeConte Hall
Room 304
Athens, Georgia 30602-1602
rroman@uga.edu

Thomas Klubock
University of Virginia
Corcoran Department of History
PO Box 400180
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4180
tmk5k@virginia.edu

Matt Childs (ex-oficio)
University of South Carolina
Department of History
817 Henderson St.
Gambrell Hall, Room 245
Columbia, SC 29208
childsmd@mailbox.sc.edu

Past Winners

 

• 2011:
  Winner:

  Richard Graham, University of Texas at Austin (Emeritus)
  Feeding the City: From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780-1860 (University of Texas Press, 2010)

  Honorable mention:

  Virginia Garrard-Burnett, University of Texas at Austin
  Terror in the Land of the Holy Spirit: Guatemala under General Efraín Ríos Montt 1982-1983(Oxford University Press, 2010)

• 2010: Edward Wright Rios, Vanderbilt University, Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism: Reform and Revelation in Oaxaca, 1887-1934 (Duke University Press, 2009)
  
• 2009: Brian Owensby, Empire’s Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008
  
  
• 2008:
  Winner: Juliana Barr, University of Florida, Peace Came in the Form of a Woman (University of North Carolina Press, 2007)
  
  Honorable Mention: Noble David Cook and Alexandra Parma Cook, Florida International University, PPeople of the Volcano: Andean Counterpoint in the Colca Valley of Peru (Duke University Press, 2007)/span>
  
  
• 2007: Bianca Premo, Children of the Father King:  Youth, Authority, and Legal Minority in Colonial Lima (University of North Carolina Press, 2005)
  
  
• 2005: Babara Ganson. The Guarani Under Spanish Rule in the Rio de la Plata  (Stanford University Press, 2003)
  
  
• 2003: Alejandro de la Fuente. A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001)