Formerly the Mexican History Prize, the award was created in 2009 by the CLAH General Committee. The prize was renamed in 2015 in memoriam of Maria Elena Martinez, a former prize recipient and contributor to the field of Mexican history. It is awarded annually for the book or article judged to be the most significant work on the history of Mexico published during the previous year. In exceptional cases, the book award committee may decide on co-winners. The co-winners will split the prize. In such cases, there would not be an honorable mention.<\/p>\n
2025<\/strong> 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2026 <\/strong>Peter F. Guardino, Nicole von Germeten, Yanna Yannakakis
\nMarcy Norton<\/strong>, The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492 <\/em>(Harvard University Press, 2024)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Co-winners:
\nMargaret Chowning<\/strong>, Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750-1940<\/em> (Princeton University Press, 2023)
\nMatthew Restall, Amara Solari, John F. Chuchiak IV, and Traci Ardren<\/strong>, The Friar and the Maya: Diego de Landa and the Account of Things of the Yucatan<\/em> (University of Colorado Press, 2023)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Tanal\u00eds Padilla<\/strong>,\u00a0Unintended Lessons of Revolution: Student Teachers and Political Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Mexico\u00a0<\/em>(Duke University Press, 2022)
\nHonorable Mention:
\nChristina Ramos<\/strong>,\u00a0Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment\u00a0<\/em>(University of North Carolina Press, 2022)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Alan Shane Dillingham<\/strong>, Oaxaca Resurgent: Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico<\/em> (Stanford University Press, 2021)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Eric Zolov<\/strong>, The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties <\/em>(Duke University Press, 2020)
\nHonorable Mention:
\nGema Kloppe-Santamar\u00eda,<\/strong> Loyola University, Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico <\/em>(University of California Press, 2020)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, <\/strong>Carleton University, The Origins of Macho: Men and Masculinity in Colonial Mexico<\/em> (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019)
\nHonorable Mention:
\n<\/em>Ryan Dominic Crewe,<\/strong> University of Colorado, Denver, The Mexican Mission: Indigenous Reconstruction and Mendicant Enterprise in New Spain, 1521-1600 <\/em>(Cambridge University Press, 2019)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>M\u00f3nica Mu\u00f1oz Mart\u00ednez, <\/strong>The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas<\/em> (Harvard University Press, 2018)
\nHonorable Mention:
\nBen Vinson III, <\/strong>Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico<\/em> (Cambridge University Press, 2017)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Pablo Piccato<\/strong>, A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth and Justice in Mexico<\/em> (University of California Press, 2017)
\nHonorable Mention:
\nLisa Sousa<\/strong>, The Woman Who Turned Into a Jaguar<\/em> (Stanford University Press, 2017)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>William B. Taylor<\/strong>, Theater of a Thousand Wonders: A History of Miraculous Images and Shrines in New Spain<\/em> (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
\nHonorable Mention:
\nRyan Alexander<\/strong>, Sons of the Mexican Revolution: Miguel Alem\u00e1n and his Generation<\/em> (University of New Mexico Press, 2016)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Elena Albarr\u00e1n<\/strong>, <\/span>Seen and Heard in Mexico. Children and Revolutionary Cultural Nationalism<\/em> (Nebraska University Press, 2015)
\n<\/span>Honorable Mention:
\nJulia Young<\/strong>, Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles and Refugees of the Cristero War<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2015)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Alexander Avi\u00f1a<\/strong>, Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2014)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Jaime M. Pensado<\/strong>, Rebel Mexico: Student Unrest and Authoritarian Political Culture During the Long Sixties<\/em> (Stanford University Press, 2013)
\nHonorable Mention:
\nAurora G\u00f3mez-Galvarriato<\/strong>, Industry and Revolution: Social and Economic Change in the Orizaba Valley, Mexico<\/em> (Harvard University Press, 2013)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Moramay L\u00f3pez-Alonso<\/strong>, <\/span>Measuring Up: A History of Living Standards in Mexico, 1850-1950 <\/em>(Stanford University Press, 2012)<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Paul Gillingham<\/strong>, Cuauhtemoc’s Bones: Forging National Identity in Modern Mexico<\/em> (University of New Mexico Press, 2011)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Paul Eiss<\/strong>, In the Name of El Pueblo: Place, Community, and the Politics of History in Yucat\u00e1n<\/em> (Duke University Press, 2010)
\nHonorable Mention:
\nPablo Piccato<\/strong>, The Tyranny of Option: Honor in the Construction of the Mexican Public Sphere<\/em>\u00a0(Duke University Press, 2010)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Matthew Restall<\/strong>, The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucat\u00e1n<\/em> (Stanford University Press, 2009)
\nHonorable Mention:
\nAnn Blum<\/strong>, Domestic Economies: Family, Work, and Welfare in Mexico City, 1884-1943<\/em> (University of Nebraska Press, 2009)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Maria Elena Mart\u00ednez<\/strong>, Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico<\/em> (Stanford University Press, 2008)<\/p>\nMaria Elena Martinez Prize Committees (Chair listed first):<\/h3>\n
\n2025 <\/strong>John Tutino, Sonia Robles, Alfredo Avila
\n2024 <\/strong>Lisa Sousa, Melisa Galv\u00e1n, Germ\u00e1n Vergara
\n2023 <\/strong>John Tutino, Peter Guardino, Elizabeth O’Brien
\n2022<\/strong> Matthew O\u2019Hara, Norah Gharala, Jaime Rodr\u00edguez
\n2021 <\/strong>Alexander Avi\u00f1a, Susana Sosenski, Diana Monta\u00f1o
\n2020<\/strong> Paul Eiss, John Chuchiak, Nora Jaffary
\n2019 <\/strong>Kevin Gosner, Nichole Sanders, Christina Bueno
\n2018<\/strong> Tanal\u00eds Padilla, Peter Villella, William Taylor
\n2017<\/strong> Andrae Marak, Elena Albarr\u00e1n, Gabriel Mart\u00ednez-Serna
\n2016<\/strong> Carmen Collado, Alex Avi\u00f1a, Nora Jaffary
\n2015<\/strong> Jaime M. Pensado, Aurora Galvarriato Freer, Frank (Trey) Proctor
\n2014<\/strong> Jeremy Baskes, Andres Resendez, Daniela Spenser
\n2013<\/strong> Rick Lopez, Ethelia Ruiz Medrano, Maria Elena Martinez
\n2012<\/strong> Matthew Restall, Antonio Escobar Ohmstede, Anne Rubinstein
\n2011<\/strong> Matthew Restall, Dorothy Tanck de Estrada, Anne Rubinstein
\n2010<\/strong> Susan Kellogg, Kevin Gosner, Ramona Falc\u00f3n
\n2009 <\/strong> Margaret Chowning, Rebecca Horne, Guillermo Pal\u00e1cios y Olivares<\/p>\n