The Warren Dean Memorial Prize was established in 1995 and carries a stipend of $500. It recognizes the book or article judged to be the most significant work on the history of Brazil published in English during the year prior to the award year. Publications by scholars other than historians will be considered as long as the work has substantial historical content. Comparative works (e. g. on Brazil and another country) will be eligible as long as they include a substantial amount of material on Brazil. 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> 2024<\/strong> 2023<\/strong> 2022<\/strong> 2021 2020 2019 2018<\/strong> 2017<\/strong> 2016<\/strong> 2015<\/strong> 2014<\/strong> 2013<\/strong> 2011<\/strong> 2009<\/strong> 2007<\/span> 2005 <\/strong> 2003 <\/strong> 2002 <\/strong> 2001 <\/strong> 2000<\/strong> 1999 <\/strong> 2026<\/strong> Dain Borges, Joel Wolfe, Camillia Cowling<\/p>\n 2025<\/strong> Hal Langfur, Molly Ball, Seth Garfield<\/p>\n 2024<\/strong> Sueann Caulfield, Marc Herztman, Keila Grinberg<\/p>\n 2023\u00a0<\/strong>Heather Roll, Colin Snider, Rodrigo Camargo de Godoi<\/p>\n 2022<\/strong> Andy Kirkendall, Patricia Acerbi, Kirsten Schultz<\/p>\n 2021 <\/strong>Gabriel Paquette (chair), Alexandre Fortes, Mary Hicks<\/p>\n 2020 <\/strong>Mariana Dantas (chair), Gregory Childs, Brian Owensby<\/p>\n 2019 <\/strong>Okezi Otovo, Celso Castilho, Eve Buckley<\/p>\n 2018 <\/strong> Ben Cowan, Teresa Cribelli, Mieko Nishida<\/p>\n 2016 <\/strong> Joel Wolfe, Ana L\u00facia Ara\u00fajo, Amy Chazkel<\/p>\n 2016 <\/strong> Hendrik Kraay, Roger Kittleson, Paulina Alberto<\/p>\n 2015 <\/strong> Kirsten Schultz, Gail Triner, Justin Wolfe<\/p>\n 2013 <\/strong> Daryle Williams, Brodwyn Fischer, Bryan McCann<\/p>\n 2011 <\/strong> Mary Karasch, Daryle Williams, John French<\/p>\n 2009 <\/strong> Teresa Meade, Kristen Schultz, Jeffrey Needell<\/p>\n 2007 <\/strong> Todd Diacon, Julyana Peard, Joan Bak<\/p>\n 2005 <\/strong> Marshall Eakin, Sueann Caulfield, William Summerhill<\/p>\n 2003 <\/strong> Joseph Love, Mary Karasch, Jeffrey Lesser<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> Thomas Skidmore, David Robinson, David Sweet<\/p>\n 2001 <\/strong> Dauril Alden, Stephen Bell, B.J. Barickman<\/p>\n 2000 <\/strong> Elinor Melville, Stephen Bell, Dain Borges<\/p>\n 1999 <\/strong> Jeffrey Lesser, Dauril Alden, Elinor Melville<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nMary Hicks<\/strong>, Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery <\/em>(Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press, 2024)
\nHonorable Mention:
\nMarc Hertzman<\/strong>, After Palmares: Diaspora, Inheritance, and the Afterlives of Zumbi <\/em>(Duke University Press, 2024)<\/p>\n
\nKirsten Schultz<\/strong>, From Conquest to Colony: Empire, Wealth, and Difference in Eighteenth-Century Brazil<\/em> (Yale University Press, 2023)
\nHal Langfur<\/strong>, Adrift on an Inland Sea: Misinformation and the Limits of Empire in the Brazilian Backlands<\/em> (Stanford University Press, 2023)<\/p>\n
\nSeth Garfield<\/strong>,\u00a0Guaran\u00e1: How Brazil Embraced the World’s Most Caffeine-Rich Plant\u00a0<\/em>(University of North Carolina Press, 2022)
\nHonorable Mention:
\nB. J. Barickman and eds. Hendrik Kraay and Bryan McCann<\/strong>,\u00a0From Sea-Bathing to Beach-Going: A Social History of the Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil\u00a0<\/em>(University of New Mexico Press, 2022)<\/p>\n
\nFrederico Freitas<\/strong>, Nationalizing Nature: Iguazu Falls and National Parks at the Brazil-Argentina Border<\/em> (Cambridge University Press, 2021)<\/p>\n
\nJohn D. French, <\/strong>Lula and His Politics of Cunning: From Metalworker to President of Brazil<\/em> (University of North Carolina Press, 2020)
\nHonorable Mentions:
\nJeffrey D. Needell<\/strong>, The Sacred Cause: The Abolitionist Movement, Afro-Brazilian Mobilization, and Imperial Politics in Rio de Janeiro<\/em> (Stanford University Press, 2020)
\nErika Helgen<\/strong>, Religious Conflict in Brazil: Protestants, Catholics and the Rise of Religious Pluralism in the Early Twentieth Century<\/em> (Yale University Press, 2020)<\/p>\n
\nJessica Graham, <\/strong>Shifting the Meaning of Democracy: Race, Politics, and Culture in the United States and Brazil<\/em> (University of California Press, 2019)<\/p>\n
\nYuko Miki, <\/strong>Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil<\/em> (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
\nHonorable Mention:
\nAnne G. Hanley<\/strong>, The Public Good and the Brazilian State: <\/em>Municipal Finance and Public Services In Sao Paulo, 1822\u20131930\u00a0<\/em>(University of Chicago Press, 2018)
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\nPatricia Acerbi<\/strong>, Street Occupations: Urban Vending in Rio de Janeiro, 1850-1925<\/em> (University of Texas Press, 2017)
\nHonorable Mentions:
\nAntoine Acker<\/strong>, Volkswagen in the Amazon: The Tragedy of Global Development in Modern Brazil<\/em> (University of Cambridge Press, 2017)
\nEve Buckley<\/strong>, Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil<\/em> (University of Cambridge Press, 2017)<\/p>\n
\nCelso Castilho<\/strong>, Slave Emancipation and Transformations in Brazilian Political Citizenship<\/em> (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
\nHonorable Mention:
\nMary Karach<\/strong>, Before Bras\u00edlia: Frontier Life in Central Brazil<\/em> (University of New Mexico Press, 2016)<\/p>\n
\nBarbara Weinstein<\/strong>, The Color of Modernity: S\u00e3o Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil<\/em> (Duke University Press, 2015)
\nHonorable Mention:
\nJo\u00e3o Reis<\/strong>, The Story of Domingos Sodr\u00e9, an African Priest in Nineteenth-Century Brazil <\/em>(Cambridge University Press, 2015)<\/p>\n
\nRoger Kittleson<\/strong>, The Country of Football: Soccer and the Making of Modern Brazil <\/em>(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014)<\/p>\n
\nHendrik Kraay<\/strong>, Days of National Festivity in Rio de Janeiro, 1823-1889 <\/em>(Stanford University Press, 2013)<\/p>\n
\nPaulina Alberto<\/strong>, Terms of Inclusion: Black Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century Brazil <\/em>(University of North Carolina Press, 2011)<\/p>\n
\nThomas Rogers<\/strong>, The Deepest Wounds: A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil<\/em> (University of North Carolina University Press, 2010)
\nHonorable Mentions:
\nMark Harris<\/strong>, Rebellion on the Amazon: The Cabanagem, Race, and Popular Culture in the North of Brazil, 1798-1840<\/em> (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
\nHeather Flynn Roller<\/strong>, “Colonial Collecting Expeditions and the Pursuit of Opportunities in the Amazonian Sert\u00e3o, c. 1750-1800,” The Americas<\/em> 66, no. 4 (April 2010): 435-467.<\/p>\n
\nBrodwyn Fisher<\/strong>, A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth Century Rio de Janiero<\/em> (Stanford University Press, 2008)<\/p>\n
\nJeffrey Needell<\/span>, The Party of Order: The Conservatives, the State, and Slavery in the Brazilian Monarchy, 1831-1871<\/em> (Stanford University Press, 2006)
\nHonorable Mention:
\nHal Langfur<\/span>, Forbidden Lands: Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence, and the Persistence of Brazil’s Eastern Indians, 1750-1830<\/em> (Stanford University Press, 2006)<\/p>\n
\nTodd Diacon,<\/strong> Stringing Together a Nation: Candido Mariano de Silva Rondon and the Construction of Modern Brazil, 1906-1930<\/em> (Duke University Press, 2004)
\nHonorable mention:
\nLinda Lewin<\/strong>, Surprise Heirs<\/em>, vol. 2 (Stanford University Press, 2003)<\/p>\n
\nPeter Beattie<\/strong>, The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil, 1864-1945<\/em> (Duke University Press, 2001)
\nHonorable Mention:
\nHendrik Kraay<\/strong>, Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil: Bahia, 1790s-1840s<\/em> (Stanford University Press, 2001)<\/p>\n
\n Sergio D\u00edaz-Briquets and Jorge P\u00e9rez-L\u00f3pez<\/strong>, Conquering Nature: The Environmental Legacy of Socialism in Cuba <\/em>(Pittsburgh University Press, 2000)<\/p>\n
\n Roderick J. Barman<\/strong>,\u00a0Citizen Emperor: Pedro II and the Making of Brazil, 1825-1891<\/em> (Stanford University Press, 1999)
\nHonorable Mention:
\nJudy Bieber<\/strong>, Power, Patronage, and Political Violence: State Building on a Brazilian Frontier, 1822-1889<\/em> (University of Nebraska Press, 1999)<\/p>\n
\nNone awarded<\/p>\n
\n Stephen Bell<\/strong>, Campanha ga\u00facha: A Brazilian Ranching System, 1850-1920<\/em> (Stanford University Press, 1998)
\nHonorable Mention:
\nThomas Cohen<\/strong>, The Fire of Tongues: Ant\u00f3nio Vieira and the Missionary Church in Brazil and Portugal<\/em> (Stanford University Press, 1998)<\/p>\nDean Prize Committees (Chair listed first):\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n