The Conference on Latin American History Prize was established in 1961 and renamed the Vanderwood Prize, in recognition of Paul Vanderwood, in 2012.<\/p>\n
$500 is awarded annually for the best article on Latin American history written in English, French, Portuguese, or Spanish and published in a journal other than the Hispanic American Historical Review<\/em> or The Americas<\/em>. An English translation of articles published in in French, Portuguese or Spanish is required.<\/p>\n 2025<\/strong> 2024<\/strong> 2023<\/strong> 2022<\/strong> 2021<\/strong> 2020<\/strong> 2019 2018<\/strong> 2017<\/strong> 2016<\/strong> 2015<\/strong> 2014<\/strong> 2013<\/strong> 2012<\/strong> 2011<\/strong> 2010<\/strong> 2009<\/strong> 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 Co-Winners: 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1979 1978 1977 1976 1975<\/strong> 1974 1973 1972Winners:<\/h3>\n
\nRachel Kaufman<\/strong>, \u201cA Mosaic of Exchange: History, Memory, and Representation of Women in the Borderlands Captivity Archive,\u201d Colonial Latin American Review <\/em>33, no. 3 (2024): 347-376.
\nHonorable Mention:
\nJos\u00e9 Carlos de la Puente Luna<\/strong>, \u201cCustoms Apart: Rethinking Inheritance and Competing Land Claims among Native Commoner Women in Colonial Andean Villages,\u201d Colonial Latin American Review <\/em>33, no. 1 (2024): 79-104.<\/p>\n
\nViridiana Hern\u00e1ndez Fern\u00e1ndez<\/strong>, \u201cThe March of Empire: The Californian Quest for Avocados in Early-Twentieth Century Mexico,\u201d Global Food History<\/em> 10, no. 1 (2023): 109-133.
\nHonorable Mention:
\n\u00c1ngela P\u00e9rez-Villa<\/strong>, \u201cEnslaved Litigants, Emotions, and a Shifting Legal Landscape in Cauca, Colombia (1825\u20131831),\u201d Journal of Social History<\/em> 57, no. 1 (2023): 49-77.<\/p>\n
\nKristie Patricia Flannery<\/strong>, “Can the Devil Cross the Deep Blue Sea?: Imagining the Spanish Pacific and Vast Early America from Below,”\u00a0The William and Mary Quarterly\u00a0<\/em>79, no. 1 (2022): 31-60.
\nHonorable Mention:
\nNatasha Lightfoot<\/strong>, “So Far to Leeward: Eliza Moore’s Fugitive Cosmopolitan Routes to Freedom in the Nineteenth Century Caribbean,”\u00a0The William and Mary Quarterly\u00a0<\/em>79, no. 1 (2022): 61-88.<\/p>\n
\nKevan Antonio Aguilar<\/strong>, “From Comrades to Subversives: Mexican Secret Police and ‘Undesirable’ Spanish Exiles, 1939-60,” Journal of Latin American Studies<\/em> 53 (2021): 1-24.
\nHonorable Mention:
\nAna Mar<\/strong>\u00eda Silva Campos<\/b>, “Fragile Fortunes: Afro-descended Women, Property Seizures, and the Remaking of Urban Cartagena,” Colonial Latin American Review<\/em> 30, no. 2 (2021): 197-213.<\/p>\n
\nAnne Rubenstein, <\/strong>“A Sentimental and Sexual Education: Men, Sex, and Movie Theaters, 1920-2010,” Mexican Studies\/Estudios Mexicanos<\/em> 36, nos. 1-2 (2020): 216-242.<\/p>\n
\nRoberto Franco, “<\/strong>Todos\/as somos 41: ‘The Dance of the Forty-One from Homosexual Reappropriation to Transgender Representation in Mexico, 1945-2001,”\u00a0Journal of the History of Sexuality,\u00a0<\/em>28, no. 1 (2019): 66-95.
\nHonorable Mention:
\nAndrew Walker<\/strong>, “All Spirits Are Roused,”\u00a0Slavery and Abolition\u00a0<\/em>40, no. 3 (2019): 583-605.<\/p>\n
\nAdriana Chira, <\/strong>“Affective Debts: Manumission by Grace and the Making of Gradual Emancipation Laws in Cuba, 1817\u201368,” Law and History Review<\/em> 36, no. 1 (2018): 1-33.
\nHonorable Mention:
\nErnesto Capello, <\/strong>“From Imperial Pyramids to Anticolonial Sundials: Commemorating and Contesting French Geodesy in Ecuador,” Journal of Historical Geography<\/em> 62 (2018): 37-50.<\/p>\n
\nMarc Hertzman<\/strong>, “Fatal Differences: Suicide, Race and Forced Labor in the Americas,” American Historical Review<\/em> 122, no. 2 (2017): 317-45.
\nHonorable Mention:
\nRyan C. Edwards<\/strong>, “Convicts and Conservation: Inmate Labor, Fires and Forestry in Southernmost Argentina,\u201d Journal of Historical Geography<\/em> 56, no. 2 (April 2017): 1-13.<\/p>\n
\nMarjoleine Kars<\/strong>, “Dodging Rebellion: Women and a Politics of Gender in the Berbice Slave Rebellion,” American Historical Review<\/em> 121, no. 1 (February 2016): 36-69.
\nHonorable Mention:
\nCristina Soriano and Krisna Huette-Orihuela<\/strong>, “Remembering the Slave Rebellion of Coro: Historical Memory and Politics in Venezuela,” Ethnohistory<\/em> 63, no. 2 (April 2016): 327-350.<\/p>\n
\nMarcy Norton<\/strong>, “The Chicken or the Iegue: Human-Animal Relationships and the Columbian Exchange,” American Historical Review<\/em> 120, no. 1 (2015): 28-60.
\nHonorable Mention:
\nRachel Hynson<\/strong>, “‘Count, Capture, and Reeducate’: The Campaign to Rehabilitate Cuba\u2019s Female Sex Workers, 1959\u20131966,” Journal of the History of Sexuality<\/em> 24, no. 1 (2015): 125-153.<\/p>\n
\nZeb Tortorici<\/strong>, \u201cVisceral Archives of the Body: Consuming the Dead, Digesting the Divine,\u201d GLQ: A<\/em> Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies<\/em> 20, no. 4 (2014): 407-437.<\/p>\n
\nMichel Gobat<\/strong>, \u201cThe Invention of Latin America: A Transnational History of Anti-Imperialism, Democracy, and Race,\u201d The American Historical Review<\/em> 118, no. 5 (2013): 1345-1375.<\/p>\n
\nAda Ferrer<\/strong>, \u201cHaiti, Free Soil, and Antislavery in the Revolutionary Atlantic,\u201d Antislavery In The Atlantic World<\/em> 117, no. 1 (2012): 40-66.<\/p>\n
\nBianca Premo<\/strong>, \u201cAn Equity Against the Law: Slave Rights and Creole Jurisprudence in Spanish America,\u201d Slavery & Abolition<\/em> 32, no. 4 (2011): 495\u2013517.
\nHonorable Mention:
\nBrian Bockelman<\/strong>, \u201cBetween the Gaucho and the Tango: Popular Songs and the Shifting Landscape of Modern Argentine Identity, 1895\u20131915,\u201d The American Historical Review<\/em> 116, no. 3 (2011): 577\u2013601.<\/p>\n
\nCelso Castilho and Camillia Cowling<\/strong>, “Funding Freedom, Popularizing Politics: Abolitionism and Local Emancipation Funds in 1880s Brazil,” Luso-Brazilian Review <\/em>47, no. 1 (Spring 2010): 89-120.<\/p>\n
\nDavid Carey<\/strong>, “Guatemala\u2019s Green Revolution: Synthetic Fertilizer, Public Health, and Economic Autonomy in the Mayan Highlands,” Agricultural History <\/em>83, no. 3 (Summer 2009): 283-322.
\nHonorable Mention:
\nBrenda Elsey<\/strong>, “The Independent Republic of Football: The Politics of Neighborhood Clubs in Santiago. Chile, 1948-1960,” Journal of Social History <\/em>42, no. 3 (Spring 2009): 605-630.<\/p>\n
\nRobert Haskett<\/strong>, “Dying for Conversion: \u00a0Faith, Obedience, and the Tlaxcalan Boy Martyrs in New Spain,” Colonial Latin American Review<\/em> (December 2008): 185-212.
\nHonorable Mention:
\nMargaret Power<\/strong>, “The Engendering of Anticommunism and Fear in Chile’s 1964 Presidential Election,” Diplomatic History<\/em> 32, no. 5 (November 2008): 931-953.<\/p>\n
\nBrian DeLay<\/strong>, “Independent Indians and the U.S.-Mexican War,” American Historical Review <\/em>112, no. 1 (February 2008): 35-68.<\/p>\n
\nLyman Johnson & Zephyr Frank<\/strong>, “Cities and Wealth in the South Atlantic: Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro before 1860,” Comparative Studies in Society and History<\/em> 48, no. 3 (July 2006): 634-668.
\nHonorable Mention:
\nBarbara Weinstein<\/strong>, “Inventing the ‘Mulher Paulista’: Politics, Rebellion and the Gendering of Brazilian Regional Identities,” The Journal of Women’s History<\/em> 18, no. 1 (Spring 2006): 22-49.<\/p>\n
\nHal Langfur<\/strong>, \u201cMoved by Terror: Frontier Violence as Cultural Exchange in Late-Colonial Brazil,\u201d Ethnohistory <\/em>52, no. 2 (Spring 2005): 255-289.
\nHonorable Mention:
\nChristine Ehrick<\/strong>, \u201cTo Serve the Nation: Juvenile Mothers, Paternalism, and State Formation in Uruguay, 1910-1930,\u201d Social Science History<\/em> 29, no. 3 (Fall 2005): 489-518.<\/p>\n
\nPaul Gootenberg,<\/strong> \u201cSecret Ingredients: The Politics of Coca in US-Peruvian Relations, 1915-65,\u201d Journal of Latin American Studies <\/em>36, no. 2 (May 2004): 233-265.<\/p>\n
\nCarolyn Dean and Dana Leibsohn<\/strong> “Hybridity and Its Discontents: Considering Visual Culture in Colonial Spanish America,” Colonial Latin American Review<\/em> 12, no. 1 (Fall 2003): 5-35.<\/p>\n
\nDavid Cahill,<\/strong> \u201cThe Virgin and the Inca: An Incaic Procession in the City of Cuzco in 1692,\u201d Ethnohistory<\/em> 49, no. 3 (Summer 2002): 611-649.
\nHonorable Mentions:
\nKaren Vieira Powers<\/strong> \u201cConquering Discourses of Sexual Conquest: Of Women, Language, and Mestizaje,\u201d Colonial Latin American Review <\/em>11, no. 1 (April 2002): 7-32
\nRebecca Scott and Michael Zeuske<\/strong>, \u201cProperty in Writing, Property on the Ground: Pigs, Horses, Land, and Citizenship in the Aftermath of Slavery, Cuba 1880-1909,\u201d Comparative Studies in Society and History <\/em>44, no. 4 (October 2002): 669-699.<\/p>\n
\nSteve Marquardt,<\/strong> \u201cGreen Havoc?: Panama Disease, Environmental Change, and Labor Process in the Central American Banana Industry,”\u00a0American Historical Review <\/em>106, no. 1 (February 2001): 49-80.<\/p>\n
\nLinda K. Salvucci and Richard Salvucci <\/strong>(co-authors), “Cuba and the Latin American Terms of Trade:\u00a0 Old Theories, New Evidence,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History <\/em>31, no. 2 (Autumn 2000): 197-222.
\nHonorable Mention:
\nJoan Bak,<\/strong> \u201cClass, Ethnicity, and Gender in Brazil: The Negotiation of Workers’ Identities in Porto Alegre’s 1906 Strike,” Latin American Research Review<\/em> 35, no. 3 (2000): 83-123.<\/p>\n
\nSergio Serulnikov<\/strong>, “Customs and Rules: Bourbon Rationalizing Projects and Social Conflicts in Northern Potos\u00ed during the 1770s,” Colonial Latin American Review <\/em>8, no. 21 (April 1999): 245-274.
\nHonorable Mention:
\nPeter M. Beattie<\/strong>, “Conscription Versus Penal Servitude: Army Reform’s Influence on the Brazilian State’s Management of Social Control, 1870-1930,” Journal of Social History <\/em>32, no. 4 (Summer 1999): 847-878.<\/p>\n
\nErik Ching and Virginia Tilley<\/strong>, \u201cIndians, the Military and the Rebellion of 1932 in El Salvador,\u201d Journal of Latin American Studies<\/em> 30, no. 1 (February 1998): 121-156.<\/p>\n
\nAdrian Bantjes,<\/strong> \u201cIdolatry and Iconoclasm in Revolutionary Mexico:\u00a0 The Dechristianization Campaigns, 1929-1940,\u201d Mexican Studies\/Estudios Mexicanos<\/em> 13, no. 1 (Winter 1997): 87-120.
\nHonorable Mentions:
\nAndres Guerrero<\/strong>, \u201cThe Construction of a Ventriloquist\u2019s Image: Liberal Discourse and the \u2018Miserable Indian Race\u2019 in Late 19th Century Ecuador,” Journal of Latin American Studies<\/em> 29, no. 3 (October 1997): 555-590.
\nSonya Lipsett-Rivera,<\/strong> \u201cThe Intersection of Rape and Marriage in Late-Colonial and Early National Mexico,” Colonial Latin American Historical Review<\/em> 6, no. 4 (Fall 1997): 559-590.<\/p>\n
\nThomas Miller Klubock<\/strong>, \u201cWorking-Class Masculinity, Middle Class Morality, and Labor Politics in the Chilean Copper Mines,” Journal of Social History<\/em> 30, no. 2 (Winter 1996): 435-463.
\nHonorable Mention:
\nMichael J. Schroeder,<\/strong> \u201cHorse Thieves to Rebels to Dogs: Political Gang Violence and the State in the Western Segovias, Nicaragua, in the time of Sandino, 1926-1934,\u201d Journal of Latin American Studies<\/em> 28, no. 2 (May 1996): 383-434.<\/p>\n
\nMark Thurner<\/strong>, \u201c\u2019Republicanos’ and ‘La Comunidad de Peruanos’: Unimagined Political Communities in Postcolonial Andean Peru,\u201d Journal of Latin American Studies<\/em> 27, no. 2 (May 1995): 291-318.<\/p>\n
\nLauren Derby<\/strong>, \u201cHaitians, Magic, and Money: Raza and Society in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands, 1900 to 1937,\u201d Comparative Studies in Society and History<\/em> 36, no. 3 (July 1994): 488-526.
\nHonorable Mention:
\nRebecca Scott,<\/strong> \u201cDefining the Boundaries of Freedom in the World of Cane: Cuba, Brazil, and Louisiana after Emancipation,\u201d American Historical Review<\/em> 74, no. 3 (August 1994): 70-102.<\/p>\n
\nJonathan C. Brown,<\/strong> \u201cForeign and Native-Born Workers in Porfirian Mexico,\u201d American Historical Review<\/em> 98, no. 3 (June 1993): 768-818.<\/p>\n
\nMuriel Nazzari<\/strong>, \u201cTransition Toward Slavery: Changing Legal Practice Regarding Indians in Seventeenth-Century S\u00e3o Paulo,\u201d The Americas<\/em> 49, no. 2 (October 1992): 131-155.
\nHonorable Mention:
\nAlan M. Taylor,<\/strong> \u201cExternal Dependence, Demographic Burdens, and Argentina\u2019s Economic Decline After the Belle Epoque,\u201d Journal of Economic History<\/em> 52, no. 4 (December 1992): 907-936.<\/p>\n
\nWilliam Culver and Cornel Reinhart,<\/strong> \u201cCapitalist Dreams: Chile\u2019s Response to Nineteenth-Century Copper Competition,\u201d Comparative Studies in Society and History<\/em> 31, no. 4 (October 1989): 722-744.
\nHonorable Mention:
\nLaird W. Bergad<\/strong>, \u201cThe Economic Viability of Super Production Based on Slave Labor in Cuba, 1859-1878,\u201d Latin American Research Review<\/em> 24, no. 1 (1989): 95-113.<\/p>\n
\nEric Van Young<\/strong>, \u201cThe Islands in the Storm: Quiet Cities and Violent Countrysides in the Mexican Independence Era,\u201d Past and Present<\/em> 118, no. 1 (February 1988): 130-155.
\nHonorable Mention:
\nDaniel James<\/strong>, \u201cOctober 17th and 18th, 1945: Mass Protest, Peronism and the Argentine Working Class,\u201d Journal of Social History<\/em> 21, no. 3 (Spring 1989): 441-461.<\/p>\n
\nWilliam B. Taylor<\/strong>, \u201cThe Virgin of Guadalupe in New Spain: An Inquiry into the Social History of Marian Devotion,\u201d American Ethnologist<\/em> 14, no. 1 (February 1987): 9-33.<\/p>\n
\nMark D. Szuchman<\/strong>, \u201cHousehold Structure and Political Crisis:\u00a0 Buenos Aires, 1810-1860,\u201d Latin American Research Review<\/em> 21, no. 3 (1986): 55-93.
\nHonorable Mention:
\nDavid G. LaFrance<\/strong>, \u201cGermany, Revolutionary Nationalism, and the Downfall of President Francisco I. Madero: The Covadonga Killings,\u201d Mexican Studies\/Estudios Mexicanos<\/em> 2, no. 1 (Winter 1986): 59-82.<\/p>\n
\nRam\u00f3n A. Guti\u00e9rrez,<\/strong> \u201cHonor Ideology, Marriage Negotiation, and Class-Gender Domination in New Mexico, 1690-1846,\u201d Latin American Perspectives<\/em> 12, no. 1 (January 1985): 81-104.<\/p>\n
\nRebecca J. Scott<\/strong>, \u201cExplaining Abolition: Contradiction, Adaptation, and Challenge in Cuban Slave Society, 1860-1886,\u201d Comparative Studies in Society and History<\/em> 26 no. 1 (January 1984): 83-111.<\/p>\n
\nSamuel Baily<\/strong>, \u201cAdjustment of Italian Immigrants in Buenos Aires and New York, 1870-1914,\u201d American Historical Review<\/em> 88, no. 2 (April 1983): 281-305.<\/p>\n
\nJohn Coatsworth<\/strong>, \u201cThe Limits of Colonial Absolutism: The State in Eighteenth Century Mexico,\u201d in Karen Spalding, ed., Essays in the Political, Economic, and Social History of Colonial Latin America <\/em>(University of Delaware Press, 1982), 25-82.<\/p>\n
\nDonna J. Guy,<\/strong> \u201cWomen, Peonage, and Industrialization: Argentina, 1810-1914,\u201d Latin American Research Review<\/em> 16, no. 3 (1981): 65-90.<\/p>\n
\nInga Clendinnen,<\/strong> \u201cLandscape and World View: The Survival of Yucatec Maya Culture Under Spanish Conquest,\u201d Comparative Studies in Society and History<\/em> 22, no. 3 (July 1980): 374-393.
\nHonorable Mention:
\nElizabeth A. Kuznesof<\/strong>, \u201cThe Role of the Female-Headed Household in Brazilian Modernization: S\u00e3o Paulo, 1765-1836,\u201d Journal of Social History <\/em>13, no. 4 (Summer 1980): 589-613.<\/p>\n
\nLinda Lewin<\/strong>, \u201cSome Historical Implications of Kinship Organization for Family-based Politics in the Brazilian Northeast,\u201d Comparative Studies in Society and History<\/em> 21, no. 2 (April 1979): 262-292.
\nHonorable Mention:
\nJohn H. Coatsworth<\/strong>, \u201cIndispensable Railroads in a Backward Economy: The Case of Mexico,\u201d Journal of Economic History<\/em> 39, no. 4 (December 1979): 939-960.<\/p>\n
\nLouis A. Perez, Jr.,<\/strong> \u201c\u2019La Chambelona\u2019: Political Protest, Sugar, and Social Banditry in Cuba, 1914-1917,\u201d Inter-American Economic Affairs<\/em> 31, no. 4 (Spring 1978): 3-27.
\nHonorable Mentions:
\nStuart B. Schwartz<\/strong>, \u201cIndian Labor and New World Plantations: European Demands and Indian Responses in Northeastern Brazil,\u201d American Historical Review<\/em> 83, no. 1 (February 1978): 43-79.
\nJohn Womack, Jr.,<\/strong> \u201cThe Mexican Economy During the Revolution, 1910-1920: Historiography and Analysis,\u201d Marxist Perspectives<\/em> 1, no. 4 (Winter 1978): 13-56.<\/p>\n
\nJohn K. Chance and William B. Taylor,<\/strong> \u201cEstate and Class in a Colonial City: Oaxaca in 1792,\u201d Comparative Studies in Society and History<\/em> 19, no. 4 (October 1977): 454-487.
\nHonorable Mentions:
\nMichael L. Conniff<\/strong>, \u201cGuayaquil Through Independence:\u00a0 Urban Development in a Colonial System,\u201d The Americas<\/em> 33, no. 3 (January 1977): 385-410.
\nJohn Hoyt Williams<\/strong>, \u201cForeign Tecnicos and the Modernization of Paraguay, 1840-1870,\u201d Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs<\/em> 19, no. 2 (May 1977): 233-257.<\/p>\n
\nRoderick Barman and Jean Barman<\/strong>, \u201cThe Role of the Law Graduate in the Political Elite of Imperial Brazil,\u201d Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs<\/em> 18, no. 4 (November 1976): 423-450.
\nHonorable Mention:
\nRalph della Cava<\/strong>, \u201cCatholicism and Society in Twentieth Century Brazil,\u201d Latin American Research Review<\/em> 11, no. 2 (1976): 7-50.<\/p>\n
\nLeon G. Campbell,<\/strong> \u201cThe Changing Racial and Administrative Structure of the Peruvian Military Under the Later Bourbons,\u201d The Americas<\/em> 32, no. 1(July 1975): 117-133.
\nHonorable Mention:
\nStanley E. Hilton<\/strong>, \u201cVargas and Brazilian Economic Development, 1930-1945: A Reappraisal of His Attitude Toward Industrialization and Planning,\u201d Journal of Economic History<\/em> 35, no. 4 (December 1975): 754-778.<\/p>\n
\nJohn M. Hart<\/strong>, \u201cNineteenth Century Urban Labor Precursors of the Mexican Revolution:\u00a0 The Development of an Ideology,\u201d The Americas<\/em> 30, no. 3 (January 1974): 297-318.
\nHonorable Mention:
\nDavid Nicholls<\/strong>, \u201cA Work of Combat: Mulatto Historians and the Haitian Past,\u201d Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs<\/em> 16, no. 1 (February 1974): 15-38.<\/p>\n
\nCharles A. Hale,<\/strong> \u201cReconstruction of Nineteenth Century Politics in South America: A Case for the History of Ideas,\u201d Latin American Research Review <\/em>8, no. 2 (Summer 1973): 53-73.
\nHonorable Mention:
\nPatricia Aufderheide<\/strong>, \u201cTrue Confessions: The Inquisition and Social Attitudes in Brazil at the Turn of the XVII Century,\u201d Luso-Brazilian Review<\/em> 10, no. 2 (Winter 1973): 208-240.<\/p>\n
\nJames R. Scobie<\/strong>, \u201cBuenos Aires as a Commercial-Bureaucratic City, 1880-1910:\u00a0 Characteristics of a City\u2019s Orientation,\u201d American Historical Review<\/em> 77, no. 4 (October 1972): 1035-1073.
\nHonorable Mention:
\nArnold J. Bauer<\/strong>, \u201cThe Hacienda El Huique in the Agrarian Structure of Nineteenth-Century Chile,\u201d Agricultural History <\/em>46, no. 4 (October 1972): 455-470.<\/p>\n
\nCarl Solberg<\/strong>, \u201cRural Unrest and Agrarian Policy in Argentina, 1912-1930,\u201d Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs<\/em> 13, no. 1 (January 1971): 18-52.
\nHonorable Mentions:
\nArnold J. Bauer<\/strong>, \u201cChilean Rural Labor in the Nineteenth Century,\u201d American Historical Review<\/em> 76, no. 4 (October 1971): 1059-1083.