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Kimberly
S. Hanger Article Prize
2016 Contest:
The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Section
(LACS) of the Southern Historical Association (SHA)
invites submissions for the 2016 Kimberly S. Hanger
Article Prize. The prize will be awarded to the best
article appearing in 2015 in the fields of Latin
American, Caribbean, American Borderlands and
Frontiers, or Atlantic World history.
The prize will be delivered at the 2016 meeting in
St. Pete Beach, FL which will be
held from November 12 to November 15,
2016. The author must be a LACS member by
the time of submission. Submit an
electronic copy of article submissions
to each of the committee members below:
a title and one-page abstract and an
electronic version of the article.
Deadline for submission: May 30, 2013.
Deadline: MAY 15, 2016
Send one electronic copy of the article to
each of the following four committee prize members:
Kristen McCleary,
James Madison University (Committee
Chair)
mccleakl@jmu.edu
Alison J. Bruey,
University of North Florida
alison.bruey@unf.edu
Bonnie A. Lucero, University of
Texas-Rio Grande Valley
uceroba@utpa.edu
Past Winners
2015 Winner:
Bianco Premo's, "Felipa's
Braid: Women, Culture, and the Law in
Eighteenth-Century Oaxaca,"
Ethnohistory 61:3 (2014): 497-523.
Prize committe remarks: We all
recognized “Felipa’s Braid” as an
article of exceptional range; of the
variety that should be assigned in
undergraduate lecture courses, discussed
in graduate methodology seminars, and
certainly shared with colleagues from
other fields working on colonial legal
culture. If originally animated by
lawsuits that indigenous women in 18th
c. Oaxaca pursued against their husbands
and lovers, “Felipa’s Braid” stretches
far and wide across the Spanish
empire—drawing on comparative readings
of similar actions in Peru and Spain—to
demonstrate that women’s participation
in the legal system instigated notable
changes in imperial legal culture.
Premo’s attention to imperial legal
culture as a process mediated
through local and state interactions
creates new interpretative possibilities
for considering gender and ethnicity in
colonial Latin America; rather than
assessing women as either victims or
objects, Premo argues that indigenous
women emerged as co-creators of the law.
This is, in short, an exemplary work of
the intersections between Atlantic legal
and social history.
Honorable mention:
Eva Maria Mehl's,"Mexican Recruits
and Vagrants in Late-Eighteenth-Century
Philippines: Empire, Social Order, and
Bourbon Reforms in the Spanish Pacific
World," Hispanic American Historical
Review 94:4 (2014): 547-79.
Prize committe remarks: In
Mehl’s article, the committee agreed
that it furnished a new and exciting
framework for understanding Spanish
empire. Rather than the better-known
story of commercial exchange from the
Philippines to Mexico, Mehl probes the
roles of Mexicans in remaking Spanish
Asia during the Bourbon Reforms. The
article brought to life the complicated
stories of Mexican vagrants who as
imperial agents both undermined, as well
as, solidified Spanish attempts to
fashion a new social order. Mehl points
a way forward for integrating Latin
American history into Asian and European
studies.
2014: Celso Thomas
Castilho, Vanderbilt Univerity,
“Performing Abolitionism, Enacting
Citizenship: The Social Construction of
Political Rights in 1880s Recife,
Brazil” Hispanic American Historical
Review (2013)
93 (3):
377-409
2013:
Matt O'Hara,
"The
Supple Whip: Innovation and Tradition in
Mexican Catholicism," American
Historical Review (2012) 117 (5):
1373-1401
2012: Juliana Barr, University of
Florida.
"Geographies
of Power: Mapping Indian Borders in the
‘Borderlands’ of the Early Southwest," William
and Mary Quarterly, 68:1 (January 2011): 5-46
- 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: Paulo Drinot, University of Oxford. “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: María Elana Martínez, UCLA. “The Black
Blood of New Spain: Limpieza de Sangre, Racial Violence, and Gendered Power
in Early Colonial Mexico,” William and Mary Quarterly, July 2004.
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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.
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