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2016 LACS Dissertation
Prize
The Latin American and Caribbean
Studies Section (LACS) of the Southern
Historical Association (SHA) invites
submissions for its dissertation prize
for 2016. The prize will be
awarded to the best dissertation in
Latin American, Caribbean, American
Borderlands and Frontiers, or Atlantic
World history completed and
defended in 2015. Dissertations
defended at any institution in the US
South and adjacent states (i.e. any
state in which the SHA has held a
meeting) will be considered. Authors
must be or become LACS members at the
time of submission.
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
Submit two files to each of the
committee members below: a title and
one-page abstract and an electronic
version of the dissertation. Deadline
for submission: May 15, 2016.
Chad Black,
University of Tennessee - Knoxville
(Committee Chair)
cblack6@utk.edu
Joshua Nadel,
North Carolina Central University
jnadel@NCCU.EDU
James A. Wood,
North Carolina A&T University
woodj@ncat.edu
Past
Winners
2015
Winner: Courtney Jeanette
Campbell, Vanderbilt University, 2014.
"The Brazilian Northeast, Inside Out:
Region, Nation, and Globalization
(1926-1968)"
Prize
committee remarks: The Latin American
and Caribbean Section Dissertation
Prize Committee of the Southern
Historical Association names Courtney
Jeanette Campbell of Vanderbilt
University’s The Brazilian
Northeast, Inside Out: Region, Nation,
and Globalization (1926-1968) as
the recipient of the award for 2015.
In her work, Campbell explored the
evolution of the meaning
(geographical, cultural, and
political) of the Brazilian Northeast
as defined by residents of the region,
of the wider Brazilian nation, and the
international community. In
doing so, she challenged the idea that
Northeastern regional identity is
“formulated around a cult of
tradition, rusticity, and reactionary
anti-cosmopolitanism that led to a
static idea of the meaning of the
Northeast within the region and the
nation” but was instead “constantly
shifting and transforming due to its
very embeddedness in the world around
it.” Campbell begins to trace this
shifting identity in 1926, the year
Gilberto Freyre organized the
Regionalist Conference of Recife, and
ends in 1968 with the Miss Universe
victory of Martha Vasconcelos (a year
that also saw the implementation of
Institutional Act Number 5, which
curtailed public discussion of
regionalism). During that 42
year interval, Campbell tracks a wide
ranging conversation between popular
poets, journalists, scholars, artists,
film-makers, educators, politicians,
athletes, community activists, beauty
pageant contestants, Carnaval dancers,
musicians, and workers from across
Brazil, South America, the US, and
Europe. To re-create this
creative debate over time, Campbell
made creative use of a wide range of
sources, including poetry, works of
fiction, folk songs, films, newspaper
articles, advertisements, and
scholarly works. Campbell’s
creativity in analyzing her sources,
her thoughtful use of theoretical
models, and her excellent writing
skill made her work stand out as an
exemplary model of the sort of
scholarship this award seeks to
recognize.
2014: Tore C. Olsson,
University of Georgia, 2013
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“Agrarian
Crossings: The American South,
Mexico, and the Twentieth-Century
Remaking of the Rural World”
Honorable
Mention:
Cameron Strang,
“Entangled Knowledge,
Expanding Nation: Science and the
United States Empires in the
Southeast Borderlands, 1783-1842”
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2013:
Charlton W. Yingling,
University of South Carolina
""Every day the risk of sedition
grows": Republicanism and Reaction in
the Remaking of Race in Santo Domingo,
1791-1802"
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