Cabrera Awards are made possible by a generous bequest from Lydia Cabrera.\u00a0 They are available to support the study of Cuba between 1492 and 1868.\u00a0 Awards are designed specifically to support:\u00a0 1) original research on Cuban history in Spanish, Mexican, and U. S. archives; 2) the publication of meritorious books on Cuba currently out of print; and 3) the publication of historical statistics, historical documents, and\u00a0 guides to Spanish archives relating to Cuban history between 1492 and 1868.<\/p>\n
Applicants must be trained in Latin American history and possess knowledge of Spanish.\u00a0 Successful applicants will be expected to disseminate the results of their research in scholarly publications and\/or professional papers delivered at scholarly conferences and public lectures at educational institutions.\u00a0 Applicants for original research are to be currently engaged in graduate studies at a U.S. institution or be affiliated with a college\/university faculty or accredited historical association in the United States.<\/p>\n
2025<\/strong> 2024 2022<\/strong> 2021 2020 2019 2018<\/strong> 2017<\/strong> 2016<\/strong> 2015<\/strong> 2014<\/strong> 2013<\/strong> 2012<\/strong> 2011<\/strong> 2010<\/strong> 2009<\/strong> (Co-Winners) 2008<\/span> 2007<\/span> (Co-Winners) 2006 <\/strong>(Co-Winners)<\/span> 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 2026 <\/strong>Jennifer Lambe, Gillian McGillivray, Mariola Espinosa
\nCo-winners:
\nKeith Richards<\/strong>, Tulane University, \u201cCommerce and Colonialism: Eastern Cuba and the 17th<\/sup>-Century Caribbean\u201d
\nJustin Jones<\/strong>, Vanderbilt University, \u201cAmerica\u2019s Most Wanted: Revolutionary Privateering and the Illegal Slave Trade in the Early Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World\u201d<\/p>\n
\nBonnie Lucero<\/strong>, Texas Christian University, “Powering the Laboring Body: Beef as a Product of Primary Necessity during Colonial Cuba’s Plantation Slavery Boom, 1760s-1820s”
\nDalia Gri\u00f1an<\/strong>, Rutgers University, “Tracing Intimate Knowledge’: African Women in Nineteenth Century Urban Cuba”
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\n2023<\/strong>
\nNo award<\/p>\n
\nSophia Kitlinski<\/strong>, Yale Univeristy
\nDaylin Pujol L\u00f3pez<\/strong>, Tulane University<\/p>\n
\nOriol Regu\u00e9 Sendros<\/strong>, Johns Hopkins University, \u201cAt the Fringes of Slavery: Forced Labor, Colonial Experiments, and the Spanish Empire in Nineteenth-Century Cuba\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>No applications submitted due to the COVID-2019 pandemic<\/p>\n
\nScott Doebler<\/strong>, Pennsylvania State University, \u201cCreating a Connected Caribbean: Entangled Commodity Ecologies of Colonial Yucat\u00e1n, Cuba, and Jamaica, 1492-1717\u201d<\/p>\n
\nDavid C. LaFevor<\/strong>, University of Texas, Arlington, “The Arguelles Affair and the Slave Ship Ciceron”<\/p>\n
\nBethany Marie Wade<\/strong>, University of Pittsburgh, “Cemeteries and the Social Order in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean”
\nWilliam Morgan<\/strong>, Lone Star College, “Tobacco and Coartaci\u00f3n in Nineteenth-Century Cuba”<\/p>\n
\nJason Daniel<\/strong>, Florida International University, “Contraband, Ship Construction, and Environmental Change in Cuba under the Early Spanish Bourbons, 1700-1762”<\/p>\n
\nAdriana Chira<\/strong>, University of Michigan, “Owning Intimacies: Slavery, Family, and Property among Afro-descendants in Santiago de Cuba, 1803-1868”
\nJorge Felipe<\/strong>, Michigan State University, “The Origins of the Cuban-based Slave Trade: Atlantic Networks and Local Changes (1789-1820)”<\/p>\n
\nScott Cave<\/strong>, Pennsylvania State University, \u201cSignals: Cross-Cultural Communication in the Spanish Atlantic Frontier, 1470-1570\u201d<\/p>\n
\nAndr\u00e9s Pletch<\/strong>, University of Michigan, \u201cState of Exception\u201d<\/p>\n
\nJoseph M. Clark<\/strong>, The Johns Hopkins University, \u201cRegional Exchange in the Atlantic World: The Caribbean \u2018Mirror Cities\u2019 of Havana and Veracruz in the Seventeenth Century\u201d<\/p>\n
\nSitela Alvarez<\/strong>, Tulane University, “The Religious and Nationalist Transformation of Cuba”<\/p>\n
\nJacqueline Kent<\/strong>, University of Miami, “Public Performance: Libres de Color Negotiating Equality in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cuba, 1844-1868”<\/p>\n
\nJoanna Elrick<\/strong>, Vanderbilt University, “Black Religions with White Faces: \u00a0the Creolization of Religious Belief and Practice in Cuba, 1650-1750”
\nDaniel Rood<\/strong>, University of California, Irvine, “Industrial Epistemologies: \u00a0Slavery, Technology, and Economy in the Atlantic World, 1840-1860”<\/p>\n
\nRachel Hynson<\/span>, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Politicians, Physicians, and Psychopaths: Public Responses to Insanity in Cuba, 1854-1868”<\/p>\n
\nAmanda Warnock<\/span>, Rutgers University, “Partner and Rivals: \u00a0New England, Cuba, and the Atlantic World”
\nAlejandro de la Fuente<\/span>, University of Pittsburgh, “Slaves and the Law in Colonial Cuba”<\/p>\n
\nEric Paul<\/strong>, University of California, Davis, \u201cEnlightenment Slavery: The Cuban Plantation in the Age of Revolution\u201d
\nMarianne Samayoa<\/strong>, University of Minnesota, \u201cShaping Health Care in Early Nineteenth-Century Cuba\u201d
\nDavid Wheat<\/strong>, Vanderbilt University,\u201cShouldering the Golden Age: Africans and Afrocreoles in Havana, 1580-1640\u201d<\/p>\n
\nAisha Finch<\/strong>, New York University, \u201cJunctures of Insurgency: Cuban Slaves and the Conspiracy of La Escalera, 1843-44\u201d<\/p>\n
\nEvelyn Powell Jennings<\/strong>, Saint Lawrence University, “State Slavery in Colonial Havana, 1763-1840”<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>No award (no applications received)<\/p>\n
\nMichele Reid<\/strong>, University of Texas, Austin, \u201cNegotiating a Slave Regime: Free People of Color in Cuba, 1844-1868\u201d<\/p>\n
\nMaria Elena Diaz<\/strong>, Merrill College, “Slave Emancipation and the Changing Meanings of Freedom in Cuba and Spain, 1780-1810”
\nCharlotte Cosner<\/strong>, Florida International University, “Rich and Poor, Black and White, Slave and Free:\u00a0 A Social History of Cuba’s Tobacco Farmers, 1763-1817”
\nWilliam Van Norman<\/strong>, University of North Carolina, “Shade Grown Slavery: Life on a Coffee Plantation in Western Cuba,1790-1845”<\/p>\n
\nLuis Mart\u00ednez Fern\u00e1ndez<\/strong>, Rutgers University, \u201cTranslation of Alexander von Humboldt’s “Political Essay on the Island of Cuba”
\nDavid A. Sartorius,<\/strong> University of North Carolina, “The Limits of Loyalty: Race and the Public Sphere in19th Century Cienfuegos”<\/p>\n
\nJane Landers<\/strong>, Vanderbilt University \u201cAfro-Floridian Exiles in Cuba, 1763 and 1821″<\/p>\n
\nMarikay McCabe<\/strong>, Columbia University, “Regulating Work, Legislating Gender: ‘Public Women’ in Nineteenth-Century Havana, Cuba”
\nM. Sherry Johnson<\/strong>, Florida International University “The Majority Were Totally Destroyed: Natural Disasters and the Course of Cuban History, 1763-1804.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nJeffrey Voris<\/strong>, Emory University, \u201cThe Development of 16th Century Cuban Society”
\nChristopher Schmidt-Nowara<\/strong>, Stanford University, \u201cEmpire and Anti- Slavery: Spain, Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1833-1898″<\/p>\n
\nMatt D. Childs<\/strong>, University of Texas, Austin, “The Aponte Conspiracy of 1812”<\/p>\n
\nJoseph Carroll Dorsey<\/strong>, Hamilton College, “Troubled Tao: Self, Otherness, and Dissidence Among Chinese Workers in Nineteenth-Century Cuba”<\/p>\n
\nAmy Ferlazzo<\/strong> \u201cVagrancy in 19th Century Cuba 1820-1868″
\nAlfonso Quiroz,<\/strong> Columbia University, \u201cThe Origins of Financial Institutions in Cuba 1840-1868″
\nLinda Salvucci,<\/strong> Trinity University, \u201cSpanish Protectionist Policies US-Cuba Trade, 1821-1898″<\/p>\nCabrera Prize Committees (Chair listed first):<\/h3>\n
\n2025 <\/strong>Bonnie Lucero, Sara Kozameh, Jorge Felipe-Gonzalez
\n2024 <\/strong>Kathleen Lopez, Marc McLeod, Michelle Chase
\n2023 <\/strong>Takkara Brunson, Aisha Finch, Fernanda Bretones Lane
\n2022<\/strong> Takkara Brunson, Aisha Finch, Fernanda Bretones
\n2021 <\/strong>Matt Childs, Takkara Brunson, Aisha Finch
\n2020 <\/strong>Matt Childs, Mariola Espinosa, Lillian Guerra
\n2019<\/strong> Camillia Cowling, Matt Childs, Mariola Espinosa
\n2018<\/strong> Reinaldo Rom\u00e1n, Mariola Espinosa, Matt Childs
\n2017<\/strong> Alejandra Bronfman, Reinaldo Rom\u00e1n, Camillia Cowling
\n2016<\/strong> William Van Norman, Alejandra Bronfman, Reinaldo Rom\u00e1n
\n2015<\/strong> Michele Reid-Vazquez, William Van Norman, Alejandra Bronfman
\n2014<\/strong> David Wheat, Michele Reid-Vazquez, William Van Norman
\n2013<\/strong> Lillian Guerra, David Wheat, Michele Reid-Vasquez
\n2012<\/strong> Joseph Dorsey, Lillian Guerra, David Wheat
\n2011<\/strong> Christopher Schmidt Nowara, Joseph Dorsey, Lillian Guerra
\n2010<\/strong> Jane Landers, Christopher Schmidt Nowara, Joseph Dorsey
\n2009 <\/strong> Jane Landers, Maria Elena D\u00edaz, Christopher Schmidt Nowara
\n2008 <\/strong> Lauren (Robin) Derby, David Sartorius, Sherry Johnson
\n2007 <\/strong> Ada Ferrer, Louis Perez, Reinaldo L. Rom\u00e1n
\n2006<\/strong> Lynn Stoner, Juan Carlos Santamarina, Joan Casanovas
\n2005<\/strong> Lynn Stoner, Juan Carlos Santamarina, Joan Casanovas
\n2004<\/strong> Joan Casanovas, David Sartorius, Juan Carlos Santamaria
\n2003<\/strong> Colin Palmer, Alejandro de la Fuente, Mar\u00eda Elena D\u00edaz
\n2002<\/strong> Laird W. Bergard, Eileen Findlay, Alejandra Bronfman
\n2001<\/strong> Lynn Stoner, Alida Metcalf, Kirwin R. Shaffer
\n2000<\/strong> Ada Ferrer, Jane Landers, Sherry Johnson
\n1999<\/strong> Rosalie Schwartz, Allen Kuethe, Luis Martinez-Fernandez
\n1998<\/strong> Louis P\u00e9rez Jr., Luis Mart\u00ednez-Fern\u00e1ndez, Lynn Stoner
\n1997<\/strong> Louis P\u00e9rez Jr., Rebecca J. Scott, Lynn Stoner
\n1996<\/strong> Louis P\u00e9rez Jr., Rebecca J. Scott, Lynn Stoner
\n1995<\/strong> Lous P\u00e9rez Jr., Antonio Benitez-Rojo, Robert Paquette<\/p>\n