The Melville prize, established in 2007 through a bequest from Elinor Melville, is awarded for the best book in English, French, Spanish or Portuguese on Latin American Environmental History.\u00a0 Melville defined environmental history as \u201cthe study of the mutual influences of social and natural processes.\u201d\u00a0 The prize goes to the book that best fits that definition, while also considering sound scholarship, grace of style, and importance of the scholarly contribution. Normally not considered are reprints or re-editions of works published previously, and works not primarily historical in aim or content.\u00a0 More general works of environmental history with significant Latin American content may also be considered. 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><\/p>\n Marcy Norton<\/strong>, The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492<\/em> (Harvard University Press, 2024)<\/p>\n 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n Germ\u00e1n Vergara<\/strong>, Fueling Mexico: Energy and Environment, 1850-1950<\/em> (Cambridge University Press, 2021)<\/p>\n Honorable Mention: 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n Roc\u00edo G\u00f3mez<\/strong>, Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs: Mining, Water, and Public Health in Zacatecas, 1835-1946<\/em> (Nebraska University Press, 2020)<\/p>\n 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n Mikael Wolfe<\/strong>, Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform<\/em> in Mexico <\/em>(Duke University Press, 2017)<\/p>\n 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n Barbara Mundy<\/strong>, The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City<\/em>\u00a0(University of Texas Press, 2015)<\/p>\n 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n Vera Candiani<\/strong>, Dreaming of Dry Land: Environmental Transformation in Colonial Mexico City <\/em>(Stanford University Press, 2014)<\/p>\n 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n Susanna Hecht<\/strong>, The Scramble for the Amazon and the ‘Lost Paradise’ of Euclides da Cunha<\/em> (University of Chicago Press, 2013)<\/p>\n 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n Eric D. Carter<\/strong>, Enemy in the Blood: Malaria, Environment, and Development in Argentina <\/em>(University of Alabama Press, 2012)<\/p>\n 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n Emily Wakild<\/strong>, Revolutionary Parks: Conservation, Justice, and Mexico\u2019s National Parks, 1910-1940<\/em> (University of Arizona Press, 2011)<\/p>\n 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n Mark Carey<\/strong>, In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers: Climate Change and Andean Society<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2010)<\/p>\n 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n Stefania Gallini<\/strong>, Una historia ambiental del caf\u00e9 en Guatemala: La Costa Cuca entre 1830 y 1902<\/em> (Guatemala City: Aviansco, 2009)<\/p>\n 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n Reinaldo Funes Monzote<\/strong>,\u00a0From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba: An Environmental History Since 1492<\/em> (University of North Carolina Press, 2008)<\/p>\n Honorable Mention: 2008 <\/strong><\/p>\n Shawn William Miller,<\/strong> An Environmental History of Latin America<\/em> (Cambridge University Press, 2007)<\/p>\n 2007 <\/strong><\/p>\n Myrna Santiago,<\/strong> The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938<\/em> (Cambridge University Press, 2006)<\/p>\n 2025<\/strong> Emily Wakild, Jennifer Eaglin, Mikael Wolfe<\/p>\n 2023\u00a0<\/strong>Barbara Mundy, Eric Carter, Roc\u00edo G\u00f3mez<\/p>\n 2021 <\/strong>Myrna Santiago, Jaime Rodr\u00edguez, Oscar de la Torre<\/p>\n 2019 <\/strong>Mark Healey , Stefania Gallini, Wilson Picado Uma\u00f1a<\/p>\n 2018<\/strong> Claudi Mar\u00eda Leal Le\u00f3n, Mark Healey, Kristin Wintersteen<\/p>\n 2016<\/strong> John Soluri, Sharika Crawford, Vera Candiani<\/p>\n 2016<\/strong> Thomas Rogers, John Soluri, Sharika Crawford<\/p>\n 2015<\/strong> Emily Wakild, Tom Rogers, John Soluri<\/p>\n 2014<\/strong> Mark Carey, Emily Wakild, Sharika Crawford<\/p>\n 2013<\/strong> Myrna Santiago, Emily Wakild, Mark Carey<\/p>\n 2012<\/strong> Shawn Miller, Myrna Santiago, Mark Carey<\/p>\n 2011<\/strong> Gregory Cushman, Shawn Miller, Myrna Santiago<\/p>\n 2010<\/strong> Susan Deeds, Gregory Cushman, Shawn Miller<\/p>\n 2009 <\/strong>Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, Susan Deeds, Gregory Cushman<\/p>\n 2008 <\/strong> Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, Stuart McCook, Susan Deeds<\/p>\n 2007 <\/strong> Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, Stuart McCook, Mark Carey<\/p>\n
\nSeth Garfield<\/strong>,\u00a0Guaran\u00e1: How Brazil Embraced the World’s Most Caffeine-Rich Plant<\/em> (University of North Carolina Press, 2022)<\/p>\n
\nRosalva Loreto Lopez<\/strong>, Una vista de ojos a una ciudad novohispana: La Puebla de los Angeles en el Siglo XVIII<\/em><\/p>\nMelville Prize Committees (Chair listed first):<\/h3>\n