The Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. Prize
The 2012 Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr. Prize will be
awarded for the best graduate student paper presented at the
Mobile Meeting of the SHA (November 2012) in the fields of Latin
American, Caribbean, American Borderlands and Frontiers, or
Atlantic World history. Students must be or become LACS members
at the time of the meeting to be considered from the prize.
Students will be asked to submit electronic versions of their
paper to the committee members shortly after the 2012 meeting
(the deadline will be set by the committee).
Committee Members (2011)
Charlotte Cosner, Western Carolina
University
(committee chair)
ccosner@email.wcu.edu
Eduardo Elena, University of Miami
edelena@miami.edu
Virginia Garrard Burnett, University of Texas
at Austin
garrard@mail.utexas.edu
Matt Childs, University of South Carolina (ex-oficio)
childsmd@mailbox.sc.edu
Past Winners
- 2011:
Courtney Campbell, Vanderbilt University
"Inside Out: Intellectual Views on Northeastern Brazilian Regional Identity
and Transnational Change, 1926-1952"
- 2010:
Mark
Fleszar, Georgia State University: “’To See How Happy the Human Race Can Be’:
A Colonization Experiment on Haiti’s Northern Coast, 1835-1845”
- 2009:
Sitela Alvarez, Florida
International University: “Cuban Exiles’
Rejection of Imperialist Catholicism in Key
West, 1870-1895”
- 2008:
Leo B. Gorman, University of New Orleans:
“Immigrant Labor Strife and Solidarity in
Post-Katrina New Orleans”
- 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”
-
2005:
Magdalena Gomez,
Florida International University: "La primera campaña de vacunación contra
la viruela y el impacto del establecimiento de las Juntas de Vacuna en la
administración de la salud pública, en el Caribe Hispano y la Capitanía de
Venezuela, a comienzos del siglo XIX"
-
2004:
David Wheat,
Vanderbilt
University: “Black Society in
Havana”
-
2003:
Sophie Burton, Texas Christian University: “Free Blacks in Natchitoches”
-
2002:
Barry Robinson, Vanderbilt University: “Treachery
in Colotlán (Mexico): The Problem of Individual
Agency in Regional Insurgency, 1810-1815”
-
2001:
Matthew Smith,
University
of Florida:
“Race, Resistance and Revolution in
Post-Occupation
Haiti, 1934-46”