The Howard F. Cline Memorial Prize, established in 1976, is awarded biennially (in odd years) to the book or article in English, German, or a Romance language judged to make the most significant contribution to the history of Indians in Latin America, referring to any time before the immediate present.\u00a0 Items appearing in the two calendar years just preceding may be considered for a given year’s award. In exceptional cases, the 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> 2023<\/strong> 2021 2019 2017<\/strong> 2015<\/strong> 2013<\/strong> 2011<\/strong> 2009<\/strong> 2007 2005 2003 2001 1999 1997 1995 1993 1991 1989 1987 1985 1983 1981 1979 1978 *Established 1976<\/p>\n 2025 <\/strong>Ken Mills, Hannah Abrahamson, Matthew Restall
\nCo-Winners:
\nSarah Newman<\/strong>, Unmaking Waste: New Histories of Old Things <\/em>(University of Chicago Press, 2023)
\nYanna Yannakakis<\/strong>, Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico <\/em>(Duke University Press, 2023)<\/p>\n
\nHeather Roller<\/strong>, Contact Strategies: Histories of Native Autonomy in Brazil<\/em> (Stanford University Press, 2021)<\/p>\n
\nElizabeth Penry<\/strong>, The People are King: The Making of an Indigenous Andean Politics<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2019)
\nHonorable Mention:
\nAllison Bigelow,<\/strong> Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World<\/em> (University of North Carolina Press, 2020)<\/p>\n
\nMatthew Restall, <\/strong>When Montezuma Met Cort\u00e9s: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History<\/em> (Harper Collins, 2018)
\nHonorable Mention:
\nYuko Miki,<\/strong> Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil<\/em> (Cambridge University Press, 2018)<\/p>\n
\nCamilla Townsend<\/strong>, Annals of Native America<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2016)<\/p>\n
\nHeather Roller<\/strong>, Amazonian Routes: Indigenous Mobility and Colonial Communities in Northern Brazil<\/em> (Stanford University Press, 2014)<\/p>\n
\nLaura Matthew<\/strong>, Memories of Conquest: Becoming Mexicano in Colonial Guatemala <\/em>(University of North Carolina Press, 2012)<\/p>\n
\nGabriela Ramos<\/strong>, Death and Conversion in the Andes: Lima and Cuzco, 1532-1670<\/em> (Norte Dame University Press, 2010)<\/p>\n
\nYanna Yannakakis<\/strong>, The Art of Being In-Between: Native Intermediaries, Indian Identity, and Local Rule in Colonial Oaxaca<\/em> (Duke University Press, 2008)<\/p>\n
\nCecilia Mendez<\/strong>, The Plebeian Republic: The Huanta Rebellion and the Making of the Peruvian State, 1820-1850<\/em> (Duke University Press, 2005)<\/p>\n
\nFrank Salomon<\/strong>, Cord Keepers: Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village<\/em> (Duke University Press, 2004)
\nHonorable Mention:
\nStephanie Wood<\/strong>, Transcending Conquest: Nahua Views of Spanish Colonial Mexico<\/em> (University of Oklahoma Press, 2003)<\/p>\n
\nKevin Terraciano,<\/strong> The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca: \u00d1udzahui History, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries<\/em> (Stanford University Press, 2001)<\/p>\n
\nDorothy Tanck de Estrada<\/strong>, Pueblos de indios y educaci\u00f3n en el M\u00e9xico colonial, 1750-1821<\/em> (Colegio de M\u00e9xico, 1999)
\nHonorable Mention:
\nGreg Grandin<\/strong>, The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation<\/em> (Duke University Press, 2000)<\/p>\n
\nThomas A. Abercrombie<\/strong>, Pathways of Memory and Power: Ethnography and History among an Andean People<\/em> (University of Wisconsin Press, 1998)<\/p>\n
\nKaren Vieira Powers<\/strong>, Andean Journeys: Migration, Ethnogensis, and the State in Colonial Quito<\/em> (University of New Mexico Press, 1995)
\nHonorable Mention:
\nSusan Kellogg<\/strong>, Law and Transformation of Aztec Culture: 1500-1700<\/em> (University of Oklahoma Press, 1995)<\/p>\n
\nDavid Block,<\/strong> Mission Culture on the Upper Amazon: Native Tradition, Jesuit Enterprise, and Secular Policy in Moxos, 1660-1880<\/em> (University of Nebraska Press, 1994)
\nHonorable Mention:
\nJohn Manuel Monteiro<\/strong>, Negros da terra: Indios e bandeirantes nas origens de S\u00e3o Paulo<\/em> (S\u00e3o Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1994)<\/p>\n
\nJames Lockhart<\/strong>, The Nahuas After the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries<\/em> (Stanford University Press, 1992)
\nHonorable Mention:
\nRam\u00f3n Guti\u00e9rrez,<\/strong> When Jesus Came the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality and Power in New Mexico 1300-1846<\/em> (Stanford University Press, 1991)<\/p>\n
\nSerge Gruzinski<\/strong>, Man-Gods in the Mexican Highlands: Indian Power and Colonial Society, 1520-1800<\/em> (Stanford University Press, 1989)
\nHonorable Mentions:
\nGrant D. Jones,<\/strong> Maya Resistance to Spanish Rule: Time and History on a Colonial Frontier<\/em> (University of New Mexico Press, 1989)
\nLouise Burkhart,<\/strong> The Slippery Earth: Nahua-Christian Moral Dialogue in Sixteenth-Century Mexico<\/em> (University of Arizona Press, 1989)<\/p>\n
\nGalo Ram\u00f3n Valarezo<\/strong>, La resistencia andina: Cayambe, 1500-1800<\/em> (Quito: Centro Andino de Acci\u00f3n Popular, 1987)<\/p>\n
\nRoss Hassig<\/strong>, Trade, Tribute and Transportation: The Sixteenth-Century Political Economy of the Valley of Mexico<\/em> (University of Oklahoma Press, 1985)<\/p>\n
\nKaren Spalding<\/strong>, Huarochiri: An Andean Society Under Inca and Spanish Rule<\/em> (Stanford University Press, 1984)
\nJerome A. Offner,<\/strong> Law and Politics in Aztec Texcoco<\/em> (Cambridge University Press, 1983)<\/p>\n
\nVictoria Reifler Bricker<\/strong>, The Indian Christ, The Indian King: The Historical Substrata of Maya Myth and Ritual<\/em> (University of Texas Press, 1981)
\nHonorable Mention:
\nSteve J. Stern,<\/strong> Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest: Huamanga to 1640<\/em> (University of Wisconsin Press, 1982)<\/p>\n
\nFrank Salomon<\/strong>, Los se\u00f1ores \u00e9tnicos de Quito en la \u00e9poca de los Incas<\/em> (Otavalo, Ecuador: Instituto Otavale\u00f1o de Antropolog\u00eda, 1980)
\nHonorable Mentions:
\nEdward Spicer<\/strong>, The Yaquis: A Cultural History<\/em> (University of Arizona Press, 1980)
\nMar\u00eda Rostworowski de Diez Canseco<\/strong>, Se\u00f1or\u00edos ind\u00edgenas de Lima y Canta<\/em> (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 1980)
\nLouis Necker<\/strong>, Indiens Guaran\u00ed et Chamanes Franciscains: Les premi\u00e8res r\u00e9ductions du Paraguay (1580-1800)<\/em> (Paris: Anthropos, 1979)<\/p>\n
\nFranklin Pease G. Y.<\/strong> Del Tawantinsuyu a la historia de Per\u00fa<\/em> (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 1978)<\/p>\n
\nPeter Gerhard<\/strong>, \u201cCongregaciones de indios en la Nueva Espa\u00f1a antes de 1570,\u201d Historia Mexicana<\/em> 26 (January-March 1977): 347-95.<\/p>\nHoward F. Cline Prize Committees (by year in which award is made, chair listed first):<\/h3>\n
\n2023 <\/strong>Bradley Benton, Amara Solari, Carmen Soliz
\n2021 <\/strong>Kevin Terraciano, Barbara Sommer, Miguel Le\u00f3n.
\n2019 <\/strong>Alex Hidalgo, Ignacio D\u00edaz Gallup, Alejandra Boza Villareal
\n2017<\/strong> Heather Roller, Catherine Komisaruk, Jose Carlos de la Puente
\n2015<\/strong> Laura Matthews, Hal Langfur, Jeremy Mumford
\n2013<\/strong> Cecilia M\u00e9ndez, Seth Garfield, Gabriela Ramos
\n2011<\/strong> Pete Sigal, Laura Gotkowitz, Alan Durston
\n2009<\/strong> Robert Haskett, Cecilia Mendez, Brooke Larson
\n2007<\/strong> Thomas Klubock, Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Michael Ducey
\n2005<\/strong> Susan Ramirez, Kevin Gosner, Rebecca Horn
\n2003<\/strong> Catherine Julien, Grant Jones, David Block
\n2001<\/strong> Matthew Restall, Cynthia Radding, Tom Abercrombie
\n1999<\/strong> Susan Schroeder, Karen M. Powers, Susan M. Deeds, Kevin Terraciano
\n1997<\/strong> Ann Wightman, Cynthia Radding, Francisco Scarano
\n1995<\/strong> Erick Langer, Kevin Gosner, Mary Karasch
\n1993<\/strong> Arnold Bauer, Rebecca Horn, Jorge Klor de Alba, Anthony Pagden
\n1991<\/strong> Karen Spalding, Susan K. Bessee, Benjamin Keen
\n1990<\/strong> Karen Spalding, Susan K. Bessee, Benjamin Keen
\n1989<\/strong> Nancy Fariss, Sabine MacCormack, Frank Salomon
\n1987<\/strong> John Chance, Victoria Bricker, Steve Stern
\n1985<\/strong> John V. Murra, William Taylor, S. L. Cline, Franklin Pease
\n1983<\/strong> Stuart Schwartz, John Chance, Peter Gerhard, Donald Gibbs
\n1981<\/strong> Nobel David Cook, Michael Hamerly, Mary Karasch
\n1980<\/strong> Robert Padden, Michael Hamerly, Mary Karasch
\n1979<\/strong> James Lockhart, Karen Spalding, Murdo MacLeod
\n1978<\/strong> John J. TePaske, John V. Murra, Donald Robertson, William B. Taylor
\n1977<\/strong> Dave Warren, John Murra, Donald Robertson
\n*Established 1976<\/p>\n