This award was created through generous donations from students, colleagues, and family members of the late Lewis Hanke.\u00a0 It will be given annually to a recent Ph.D. recipient in order to conduct field research that will allow transformation of the dissertation into a book.\u00a0 Applicants must have completed their Ph.D. degrees in the field of Latin American history no more than four years prior to the closing date of the application.<\/p>\n
2025<\/strong> 2024 2023<\/strong> 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018<\/strong> 2017<\/strong> 2016<\/strong> 2015<\/strong> 2014<\/strong> 2013<\/strong> 2012<\/strong> 2011<\/strong> 2010<\/strong> 2009<\/strong> 2008<\/span> 2007<\/span> 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 2026 <\/strong>Lori Flores, Robert Franco, Rick L\u00f3pez
\nFidel Rodr\u00edguez Vel\u00e1squez, <\/strong>Pontificia Universidade Cat\u00f3lica do Rio de Janeiro, \u201cEntangled by Pearls: Agents, Politics, and Labour in the Making of the Early Modern Atlantic World\u201d<\/p>\n
\nHaley Schroer<\/strong>, Texas Lutheran University, “Sartorial Subversions: Appearance, Identity, and Sumptuary Legislation in the Spanish Empire”<\/p>\n
\nHannah Abrahamson<\/strong>, College of the Holy Cross, “Her Hands Full of Tribute: Labor and the Encomienda in Early Colonial Yucat\u00e1n”<\/p>\n
\nWilliam Cohoon<\/strong>, Texas Christian University, \u201cInformation Empire: Environmental Social Policy and Resistance in Bourbon Peru\u201d<\/p>\n
\nAntony Keane-Dawes,<\/strong> University of South Carolina, \u201c<\/b>The Spirit of Opposition: Dominican Politics, Independence, and Loyalties in a Revolutionary Age\u201d<\/p>\n
\nMaria-Clara Torres Bustamante,<\/strong> Stony Brook University, “The Roots of an Illegal Peasant Crop: Coca in Colombia, 1950’s- 1990’s”<\/p>\n
\nAndra B. Chastain,<\/strong> Washington State University, “Visions of Progress: The Santiago Metro and the Struggle for a Rational City”
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\nJoseph Clark<\/strong>, University of Kentucky, “Veracruz and the Caribbean in the Seventeenth Century”<\/p>\n
\nNatasha Varner<\/strong>, University of Arizona, \u201cLa Raza Cosm\u00e9tica: Beauty, Race, And Indigeneity in Post-Revolutionary Mexico”<\/p>\n
\nJennifer Eaglin<\/strong>, Ohio State University, \u201cSweet Fuel: The Public-Private Development of Brazil\u2019s Ethanol Industry in Ribeir\u00e3o Preto, S\u00e3o Paulo\u201d<\/p>\n
\nChristy Thornton<\/strong>, Rowan University, “‘Sovereignty and Solidarity”
\nHonorable Mention:
\nRebecca Herman<\/strong>, University of California, Berkeley, “‘Contesting Sovereignty”<\/p>\n
\nAlexander Hidalgo<\/strong>, Texas Christian University \u201cThe Indian Map Trade in Colonial Oaxaca\u201d<\/p>\n
\nEnver Casimir<\/strong>, Marist College, \u201cKid Chocolate-Champion of the Patria: Sport, Race, and National Aspiration in Republican Cuba\u201d<\/p>\n
\nZeb Tortorici<\/strong>, New York University, \u201cContra Natura: Desire, Colonialism and the Unnatural\u201d<\/p>\n
\nDavid Rex-Galindo<\/strong>, Southern Methodist University, “‘To Sin No More’: Franciscan Missionaries and the Conversion of the Hispanic World”
\nHonorable Mention:
\nCamilo Trumper<\/strong>, University of California, Berkeley, “‘A Ganar La Calle’: The Politics of Public Space and Public Art in Allende’s Chile”<\/p>\n
\nDana Velasco Murillo<\/strong>, University of California, Irvine, “Indians of the Silver City of Zacatecas, Mexico: 1546-1806”<\/p>\n
\nCelso Castilho<\/strong>, Vanderbilt University, “The Rosario Brotherhood, Antislavery, and Public Politics in Late-Nineteenth-Century Recife”<\/p>\n
\nM. Kittiya Lee<\/span>, Ohio State University, “Conversing in Colony: \u00a0The Brasilica and the Vulgar in Portuguese America, 1500-1759”<\/p>\n
\nIan Read<\/span>, <\/span>University of California, Berkeley, “Unequally Bound: \u00a0The Conditions of Slave Life and Treatment in Santos County, Brazil, 1822-1888”<\/p>\n
\nThomas Rogers<\/strong>, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, \u201cThe Deepest Wounds: The Laboring Landscapes of Sugar in Northeastern Brazil\u201d<\/p>\n
\nNicole Sanders<\/strong>, Lynchburg College, \u201cGender, Welfare, and the Mexican \u2018Miracle\u2019: The Politics of Modernization in Post-Revolutionary Mexico, 1937-1958\u201d<\/p>\n
\nKristen McCleary<\/strong>, James Madison University, “Culture and Commerce: An Urban History of Theater in Buenos Aires, 1880-1920”
\nHonorable Mentions:
\nCynthia Milton<\/strong>, Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, “The Many Meanings of Poverty: Colonial Compacts and Social Assistance in Eighteenth-Century Quito”
\nEdward Osowski<\/strong>, Penn State University, “Saints of the Republic: Nahua Religious Obligations in Central Mexico, 1692-1810”<\/p>\n
\nMar\u00eda Elena Mart\u00ednez<\/strong>, University of Southern California, “The Spanish Concept of Limpieza de Sangre and the Emergence of the Race\/ Class System in the Viceroyalty of New Spain\u201d<\/p>\n
\nBianca Premo<\/strong>, Emory University, \u201cChildren of the Father King: Youth, Authority and Legal Minority in Colonial Lima\u201d<\/p>\n
\nMark Healey<\/strong>, New York University, \u201cMemories of Catastrophe: Rebuilding Lives after the 1944 Earthquake in San Juan, Argentina\u201d<\/p>\n
\nLessie Jo Frazier<\/strong>, University of South Carolina, \u201cSalt in the Sand: Memory and State Violence in Tarapac\u00e1 Chile, 1890-Present\u201d<\/p>\n
\nPatrice Elizabeth Olsen<\/strong>, Stephen F. Austin State University, \u201cArtifacts of Revolution:\u00a0 Architecture, Society, and Politics in Mexico City, 1920-1940\u201d<\/p>\n
\nS. Elizabeth Penry<\/strong>, Fordham University, \u201cThe People Are King: Modernity and Popular Sovereignty in Indigenous Rebellions of Colonial Peru\u201d
\nHonorable Mentions:
\nKaren Racine<\/strong>, Valparaiso University \u201cImagining Independence:\u00a0 London\u2019s Spanish American Community (1790-1830)\u201d
\nMarc Becker<\/strong>, Gettysburg College, \u201cIndian Movement and the Left in Twentieth-Century Ecuador\u201d<\/p>\nHanke Prize Committees (Chair listed first):<\/h3>\n
\n2025 <\/strong>David Wheat, Mateo Jarqu\u00edn, Andra Chastain
\n2024 <\/strong>Lance Ingwersen, Gabriela Aceves, Jorell Melendez-Badillo
\n2023 <\/strong>Sarah Hines, Lance Ingwersen, Ignacio Mart\u00ednez
\n2022<\/strong> Renata Keller, Robert Saba, Elizabeth Schwall
\n2021<\/strong> Sylvia Sellers Garc\u00eda (chair), Heidi Scott, Javier Puente
\n2020 <\/strong>Sherwin Bryant (chair), Justin Wolfe, Karoline Cook
\n2019 <\/strong>Adam Warren, Karen Racine, Justin Castro
\n2018<\/strong> Yuko Miki, Casey Lurtz, Ernesto Bassi
\n2017<\/strong> Miguel La Serna, Alex Borucki, Claudia Brosseder
\n2016<\/strong> Julia Rodr\u00edguez, Teresita Levy, Victor Uribe
\n2015<\/strong> Stephen Lewis, Kirsten Weld, Eve Buckley
\n2014<\/strong> Fabricio Prado, Dana Velasco Murillo, Frank Robinson
\n2013<\/strong> Frank Guridy, Pamela Voekel, Paulina Alberto
\n2012<\/strong> Sherry Johnson, Celso Catilho, Camilo Trumper
\n2011<\/strong> Alejandra Osorio, Patrick Barr-Melej, Gillian MacGillivray
\n2010<\/strong> Suzanne Austin, Juliana Barr, Diego Armus
\n2009<\/strong> David Sheinin, Nils Jacobsen, Michelle Reid
\n2008<\/strong> Charles Walker, Alida Metcalf, Christine Ehrick
\n2007<\/strong> Sandra McGee Deutsch, Nicole Sanders, David Sheinin
\n2006<\/strong> Susan Deeds, Pat McNamara, Kirsten Schultz, Stuart Voss
\n2005<\/strong> Jeremy Adelman, Susie Porter, Samuel Brunk
\n2004<\/strong> Matthew Restall, Stephanie Bower, Anne Rubenstein
\n2003<\/strong> Lawrence Clayton, Adrian Bantjes, Barbara Ganson
\n2002<\/strong> Colin Maclachlan, Richard Slatta, Amy Bushnell
\n2001<\/strong> Richard Walter, Aline Helg, Trudy Yeager
\n2000<\/strong> Steve Topik, Ken Mills, Kathryn Burns
\n1999<\/strong> Fritz Schwaller, Mary Karasch, Adrian Bantjes
\n1998<\/strong> Allen Wells, Charles J. Fleener, Camilla D. Townsend
\n1997<\/strong>\u00a0(inactive) Karen Vieira Powers
\n1996<\/strong> Richard Graham
\n1995<\/strong> not active<\/p>\n