LASA "Archives" Section Award for Best Public Project
Presented by the Archives, Libraries and Digital Scholarship section
Winner
Lucía Campanella
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Portal Historia de la Traducción en Uruguay
LASA "Archives" Section Award for Best Publication
Presented by the Archives, Libraries and Digital Scholarship section
Winner
Alejandro L. Madrid
Harvard University
Listening through the Colonial Noise: Things, Sound Objects, and Legacy at the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv’s Konrad T. Preuss Collection", Journal of the American Musicological Society (2025) 78 (1): 195–240.
Premio a mejor artículo LASA Colonial Section 2026
Presented by the Colonial section
Winner
Maya Caterina Feile Tomes
University of Glasgow
"Una heroica dama? The Discurso en loor de la poesía (1608) in context and the case for Diego Mexía as ‘Clarinda’." Colonial Latin American Review, 32:4 (2023; p. Jan. 2024), 452–480
Honorable Mention
Karen Graubart
University of Notre Dame
"Dialogic Depositions: Finding Black Women's Presence in Spanish Colonial Legal Records." Renaissance Quarterly LXXVIII:2 (2025): 349-78.
Premio a mejor tesis doctoral LASA Colonial Section 2026
Presented by the Colonial section
Winner
Alfredo Luis Escudero Villanueva
Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología (UTEC)
Mountains of Knowledge: Indigenous Labor, Land Inspections and the Engineering of the Early Colonial Andes
Honorable Mention
Celia Rodríguez Tejuca
Johns Hopkins University
From the Ground Up: Picturing Scientific Knowledge in the Late Eighteenth-Century Spanish Americas
Honorable Mention
Mary Newman
University of Oxford
An Assault on the Senses: The Five Senses in the Literature of the Arauco War
Premio a la Excelencia Académica de la Sección Cuba de LASA2026
Presented by the Cuba section
Winner
Miguel Alejandro Figueras Pérez
Centro de Estudios de la Economía Cubana de la Universidad de la Habana
Premio a la Mejor Tesis de Doctorado en Estudios Cubanos 2026
Presented by the Cuba section
Winner
Ricardo González
Universidad de La Habana
Essays of misallocation of resources: evidence from Cuba
Best Article Award
Presented by the Economics and Politics section
Winner
Julia Smith Coyoli and Candelaria Garay
University of Strathclyde and Cornell University
Subnational democracy, protest, and welfare, World Development, Volume 188, 2025
Best Book Prize
Presented by the Economics and Politics section
Winner
Claudia Kedar
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The World Bank and the Cold War in Latin America. Stanford University Press, 2025
Honorable Mention
Luis Schiumerini
University of Notre Dame
Why Political Office is a Blessing and a Curse in Latin America, Cambridge University Press, 2025
Honorable Mention
Sebastian Carrasco
Universidad San Sebastián, Chile
From (De)regulation to Industrialization Chilean Lithium Policy in Comparative Perspective, Palgrave, 2026
Mejor Artículo Publicado: Dolores Cacungo
Presented by the Ecuadorian Studies section
Winner
Mark Alan Becker
Truman State University
The Complex Dynamics of Indigenous Education in Mid-Twentieth-Century Ecuador as a Theater for Political Debate
Honorable Mention
María Dolores Vaca and Jenny Pontón-Cevallos
FLACSO-Ecuador and FLACSO-Ecuador
Mujeres y prendas en conflicto: exclusividad y exclusión del diseño de modas en Ecuador
Premio al Mejor Libro: Nelson Estupiñán-Bass
Presented by the Ecuadorian Studies section
Winner
Kathleen S. Fine-Dare
Fort Lewis College
Dinámicas de la indigeneidad en contextos urbanos: Historia, actuación y educación en Cotocollao, Quito
LASA Environment Section Best Article Award
Presented by the Environment section
Winner
Francisco Gerardo Tijerina Martínez
Washington University in St. Louis
2025 “Technopoetics of the Anthropocene: Rendering Our Present through Echoes in Mexican Bots and Machines.” Bulletin of Latin American Studies. Vol 44: 3, July
Winner
Micah McKay
University of Alabama
2025 “Logics of Waste in Liliana Colanzi’s You Glow in the Dark.” THEORY NOW: Journal of Literature, Critique, and Thought. Vol 8: 1 January – June
Honorable Mention
Mariana Calcagni
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
2025 “From peasant women to social change: The politicization of identities and materialities toward socio-ecological transformations.” Grassroots – Journal of Political Ecology. Grassroots – Journal of Political Ecology. Vol. 32
LASA Environment Section Best Book Award
Presented by the Environment section
Winner
Rick A. López
Amherst College
Rooted in Place: Botany, Indigeneity, and Art in the Construction of Mexican Nature, 1570-1914 (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2025)
Honorable Mention
Fernando Pérez Montesinos
Universidad de California, Los Ángeles,
Landscaping Indigenous Mexico: The Liberal State and Capitalism in the Purépecha Highlands (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2025)
Chaney & Safa- Best Paper Award
Presented by the Gender and Feminist Studies section
Winner
Andrea Román Alfaro
University of New Mexico - Albuquerque
Life-crafting Pedagogy: Motherwork amid Violence at Peru´s Urban Margins
Honorable Mention
Marie Kolling
Danish Institute for International Studies
Women, household finance, and reconfigurations of indebtedness under Brazil’s ‘fintech revolution
Marielle Franco Activism Paper Award
Presented by the Gender and Feminist Studies section
Winner
Soledad Fernández Bouzo
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas - Universidad de Buenos Aires
Territorios de amor, furia y resistencia: el legado de Lohana Berkins llega a su Salta natal a través de la Cooperativa textil travesti-trans 'Nadia Echazú
Article/Book Chapter Award
Presented by the Haiti/ Dominican Republic section
Winner
Jesús Ruiz
Vanderbilt University
Freedom, Faith and Sovereignty
Guy Alexandre Paper Presentation Prize
Presented by the Haiti/ Dominican Republic section
Winner
Pedro Valdez Castro
Brown University
Border-Making in Hispaniola Island: The Social Construction of the Dominican-Haitian Border Through Migration and Border Policy During the Era of Trujillo
Isis Duarte Book Prize
Presented by the Haiti/ Dominican Republic section
Winner
Darlène Elizabeth Dubuisson
University of California, Berkeley
Reclaiming Haiti’s Futures: Return Intellectuals, Placemaking, and Radical Imagination (Rutgers University Press)
Winner
Sharina Maíllo-Pozo
University of Georgia
Bridging Sonic Borders: Popular Music in Contemporary Dominican/ Dominicanyork Literature (University of Texas Press)
The Quisqueya–Ayiti Enduring Legacy Award in Dominican and Haitian Studies
Presented by the Haiti/ Dominican Republic section
Winner
Sarah Aponte
City University of New York
For her pioneering and sustained contributions to the development of Dominican studies in the United States.
Winner
Silvio Torres-Saillant
Syracuse University
For having dedicated his life to establishing and promoting Dominican and Latino studies in the United States.
Health, Science and Technology Section Graduate Student Paper Prize
Presented by the Health, Science, and Technology section
Winner
Tiago Tasca
University of California, Santa Cruz
When Capacity Is Not Enough: Evidence from Brazil’s Vaccination Rates
Honorable Mention
Diego Alonso Cerna Aragon
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Orienting Capital: Transformations in the Production of Geological Information during the Peruvian Neoliberal Turn
Health, Science, and Technology Section Article Prize
Presented by the Health, Science, and Technology section
Winner
Julio Villa-Palomino
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Home sweet harm: Confinement and tranquilidad in post-asylum Peru
Honorable Mention
Pablo Lapegna, Johana Kunin, and Tomás Palmisano
University of Georgia, Universidad Nacional de San Martín & Uppsala University and CONICET & Universidad de Buenos Aires
Between Regulation and Practice: Situated Pesticide Governance in Argentina
Premio de Mejor Libro
Presented by the Historia Reciente y Memoria section
Winner
Rachel Nolan
Boston University
Until I find you : disappeared children and coercive adoptions in Guatemala. (Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England; Harvard University Press, 2024)
Honorable Mention
Katia Chornik
University of Cambridge
Music and Political Imprisonment in Pinochet’s Chile. (New York; Oxford, 2025)
Honorable Mention
Mónica M. Salas Landa
Lafayette College
Visible ruins : the politics of perception and the legacies of Mexico’s revolution. (Austin; University of Texas Press, 2024)
2025 Best articles and book chapters: Category - Graduate Students
Presented by the Labor Studies section
Winner
Ivan Ojeda-Pereira
Instituto de Sociología UC - CIGIDEN - LUT University
Securitizing the technoplatformized City: How delivery workers construct urban safe spaces in Chile’s gig economy. Digital Geography and Society 9, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diggeo.2025.100136
Honorable Mention
Yasmin Getirana
London School of Economics
Organized domestic workers struggles in Brazil (1960s and 1980s)
2025 Best articles and book chapters: Category -Professors and Post Doctoral Researchers
Presented by the Labor Studies section
Winner
Francisca Gutierrez-Crocco and Sebastián Budnevich
Universidad Austral de Chile and Universidad Catolica de Chile
Resistance, accommodation, or assimilation? The contested role of worker solidarity in food delivery platforms. Economic and Industrial Democracy 00, 1-26.
Honorable Mention
Pablo Pérez-Ahumada and Kevin Carrasco
Universidad de Chile and Centro de Estudios de Conflicto y Cohesion Social
Política de clases y confianza en los sindicatos en América Latina. Latin American Research Review 60, 410–433. https://doi.org/10.1017/lar.2024.64
Best article Award Humanities
Presented by the Latinx Studies section
Winner
Carlos Velazco Fernández
University of Virginia
Jicotea en Estados Unidos: Lydia Cabrera y el puente antropomórfico a la diáspora cubana
Honorable Mention
Nancy Kang
University of Manitoba
Madre de Sangre/Mother of Blood: Vampirizing La Virgen
Best article Award Social Sciences
Presented by the Latinx Studies section
Winner
Eduardo Muñoz Suarez
University of Kansas
Being Hispanic Matters? Ethnicity as Predictor of Vote Preference in the Arizona 2024 U.S. Senate Election
Honorable Mention
Arturo Chang
University of Toronto
Tradition and Disruption in Latinx and Latin American Political Thought
Best book Award Humanities
Presented by the Latinx Studies section
Winner
Lilian Gorman
University of Arizona
Zones of encuentro: Language and Identities in Northern New Mexico
Honorable Mention
Stephanie L. Canizales
University of California, Berkeley
Everyday futures – Language as Survival for Indigenous Youth in Diaspora
Best book Award Social Sciences
Presented by the Latinx Studies section
Winner
Tania Lizarazo
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Postconflict Utopias
Honorable Mention
Regina Mills
Texas A&M University
Invisibility and Influence: A Literary History of AfroLatinidades
Lifetime achievement Award Humanities
Presented by the Latinx Studies section
Winner
Debra Castillo
Lehman College
Lifetime achievement Award Social Sciences
Presented by the Latinx Studies section
Winner
Silvia Pedraza
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Premio a Mejor Tesis Doctoral 2026 de la Sección Medios, Comunicación y Cultura de LASA
Presented by the Media, Communication & Culture section
Winner
Alejandra Sañudo Martín
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO)
Directoras Mexicanas y el Cine como Resistencia: Mirada Interseccional entre sus Prácticas de Producción Cinematográfica y las Mujeres dentro de la Ficción
Honorable Mention
Alejandro Hans Bruna Silva
Tecnológico de Monterrey
Contar historias en la era digital: estructura sistémica de la industria de la telenovela chilena
Honorable Mention
Facundo Nazareno Suenzo
Universidad de San Andrés
Techno-Affective Ecologies: A Sociocultural History Of Gay Sexuality In Post-Dictatorship Argentina
Mejor artículo Ciencias Sociales
Presented by the Mexico section
Winner
Dolores Trevizo
Occidental College
Organizational FOrm and Fragmentation in the Lethal Outcomes of Mexico's Vigilante Mobilizations, 2012-2015
Honorable Mention
Brian Palmer-Rubin, Jesica Tapia Reyes, Daniel Berliner, Aaron Erlich and Benjamin Bagozzi
Occidental College, University of Southern California, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), McGill University and University of Delaware
Accountability in Time: Evolution and Expertise in Participatory Institutions
Mejor libro Ciencias Sociales
Presented by the Mexico section
Winner
Enrique Ochoa
California State, Los Angeles
Mexico Between Feast and Famine: Food, Corporate Power, and Inequality
Mejor libro Humanidades
Presented by the Mexico section
Winner
Lesley A. Wolff
University of Tampa
Culinary Palettes: The Visuality of Food in Post-Revolutionary Mexican Art
Honorable Mention
Alejandro Madrid
Harvard University
The Archive and the Aural City: Sound, Knowledge and the Politics of Listening
Honorable Mention
Rick A Lopez
Amherst College
Rooted in Place: Botany, Indigeneity and Art in the Construction of Mexican Nature, 1570-1914
Mejor artículo Humanidades
Presented by the Mexico section
Winner
Alejandra Vela Martinez
Harvard University
Elena Garro's Gambit: The Politics of a Female Writer's Intimate Archive (1935-1998)
Honorable Mention
Regina Pieck Azuara
Stanford University
Anotar con Cuidado: Una Critica del lenguaje botanico desde la ecopoesia
Premio Jóvenes Investigadores/as de la Sección Migraciones, Desplazamientos y Movilidades de LASA 2026
Presented by the Migraciones, Desplazamientos y Movilidades section
Winner
Israel Perez Medina
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Una poética del movimiento en Nocturno de frontera de Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez
Honorable Mention
Denisse Delgado
Georgetown University
Cuba’s Post-2021 Exodus and the Reconfiguration of Remittances: Gender, Transnational Care, and Digital Transformation in Two Diaspora Hubs—Miami and Madrid
Premio Mejor Libro de la Sección Migraciones, Desplazamientos y Movilidades de LASA 2026
Presented by the Migraciones, Desplazamientos y Movilidades section
Winner
Douglas De Toledo Piza
Lafayette College
Beyond Informality. How Chinese Migrants Transformed a Border Economy
Honorable Mention
Claudia Patricia Masferrer León, Erin R. Hamilton and Nicole Denier
El Colegio de México, University of California, Davis and Colby College
The returned. Former U.S. migrants’ lives in Mexico City
Award for Best Book in History and Social Sciences
Presented by the Nineteenth Century section
Winner
Ana María Otero-Cleves
University of York
Plebeian Consumers: Global Connections, Local Trade, and Foreign Goods in Nineteenth-Century Colombia (Cambridge UP)
Award for Best Book in the Humanities
Presented by the Nineteenth Century section
Winner
Ashley Elizabeth Kerr
University of Idaho
Vida Zoo-cial: The Buenos Aires Zoo and the Making of Argentine Society, 1875-1924 (Vanderbilt UP)
Best Article Award
Presented by the Nineteenth Century section
Winner
Elizabeth Mirabal
University of Virginia
Flores dispersas, hojas secas: El herbarium poeticus epistolar y exílico de Dolores Rodríguez de Tió, Revista Hispánica Moderna, vol. 78 no. 1, 2025, p. 21-38
Honorable Mention
Emmanuel Velayos Larrabure
The City University of New York / The Cooper Union
“Graffiti as Earthly Inscriptions: Human Acts and Geological Forces in Euclides Da Cunha’s Os Sertões (1902),” in Changes in the Landscape: Humans and Nature in Nineteenth-Century Latin America (ed. Jennifer L. French), Vanderbilt University Press, 2025
Best Doctoral Dissertation Award
Presented by the Nineteenth Century section
Winner
Gabriel Lesser
University of California, Berkeley
Hegemonic Humor: Racial Satires, Caricatures, and Nation Building in Nineteenth-Century Mexico and Brazil, University of California, Berkeley
Honorable Mention
Mariana Katz
University of California, San Diego
The Labor of the State: Unfree Workers and the Making of Republican Paraguay (1811-1864), Columbia University
Premio Otros Saberes LASA 2026
Presented by the Otros Saberes section
Winner
Colectivo Mulheres ao Vento
Por su metodología colectiva, que articula danza, performance, oralidad y textualidad, y por su capacidad de generar un impacto transformador en mujeres afro de las favelas brasileñas. Asimismo, se valora su compromiso con epistemologías que surgen de la lucha y de la colaboración entre la academia y la comunidad
Honorable Mention
Comunidade Ribeirinha Ilha do Capim, de la Amazonía Brasileña
Por su contribución al diálogo intercultural y valorización de saberes, a la identidad y memoria local de una comunidad amazónica, a la formación de investigadoras/es comunitarias/os a través de metodologías participativas, y a la justicia socioambiental.
2025 Donna Lee Van Cott Book Award
Presented by the Political Institutions section
Winner
Raul L. Madrid
University of Texas (Austin)
The Birth of Democracy in South America (Cambridge University Press 2025)
2025 LAPIS Best Paper Award
Presented by the Political Institutions section
Winner
Verónica Pérez Betancur, Rafael Piñeiro Rodríguez and Fernando Rosenblatt
Universidad de la República -Uruguay, Universidad Católica del Uruguay and University of Manchester
The Political Incorporation of Popular Sectors in Latin America
Premio Blanca Silvestrini al mejor artículo sobre estudios puertorriqueños 2025
Presented by the Puerto Rico section
Winner
Isar Godreau, Mariluz Franco Ortiz, Gabriela Ortiz Laureano, Andrea Texidor Cintrón and Rafael Capó García
Universidad de Puerto Rico Recinto de Cayey, Universidad de Puerto Rico Recinto de Cayey, Estudiante e Investigadora, Estudiante e Investigadora, Universidad de Puerto Rico y Memoria (De)colonial
Colorismo en la educación: colonialidad y blanqueamiento en textos escolares, Centro Journal vol 37, no.1: 51-88
Honorable Mention
Christopher Lesser
University of North Carolina-Charlotte
Paying Up: Colonial Capture and Regressive Restructuring in Puerto Rico’s Highways and Transportation Authority. Sociology of Development, 11(2): 85-108.
Mejor Artículo Científico
Presented by the Southern Cone Studies section
Winner
Debbie Sharnak and Francesca Parente
Rowan University and Christopher Newport University
From Cautious Optimism to Backlash: Uruguay and the Gelman Decision after Ten Years
Honorable Mention
Cole Rizki
University of Virginia
Antifascist feminisms: forging a travesti-trans international
Mejor Libro Ciencias Sociales
Presented by the Southern Cone Studies section
Winner
Rodrigo Zarazaga
Instituto Universitario CIAS and the National Council for Science and Technology from Argentina (CONICET)
Poverty Shaping Politics. Machine Parties and Their Unexpected Challengers
Honorable Mention
Nayla Luz Vacarezza
Universidad de Buenos Aires - CONICET
Las pasiones alegres del feminismo. O cómo agitar la imaginación política contemporánea
Mejor Libro Humanidades
Presented by the Southern Cone Studies section
Winner
Katia Chornik
University of Cambridge
Music and Political Imprisonment in Pinochet’s Chile
Honorable Mention
Jennifer Thompson
Southern Methodist University
Performing Citizenship
Mejor Tesis Doctoral
Presented by the Southern Cone Studies section
Winner
Mariana Katz
University of California, San Diego
The Labor of the State: Unfree Workers and the Making of Republican Paraguay (1811-1864)
LASA Student Section Paper Award 2026
Presented by the Student Section of LASA section
Winner
Francisco Torres -Camacho
Universidad de los Andes
Standardized Exclusion: Educational Policy, Impoverishment, and Struggles for Justice
Winner
Gabriel Jose Carrion Perez
University of Oregon
Repúblicas desplazadas y subjetividades políticas entre maritorios, periferias y paraestados
Winner
Raúl Romo
University of California, Irvine
A galope desbocado: configurando a Zapata desde Anenecuilco hasta Bellas Artes
Best Book in Subnational Politics and Society
Presented by the Subnational Politics and Society section
Winner
Luis Schiumerini
University of Notre Dame
Incumbency Bias: Why Political Office is a Blessing and a Curse in Latin America. Cambridge University Press
Best Paper Award
Presented by the Subnational Politics and Society section
Winner
Gabriel Suchodolski
Georgetown University
State Performance with Weak Bureaucracies: Land policy implementation in Amazonia
Premio Paula Vásquez 2025 al mejor artículo sobre Venezuela en el área de ciencias sociales
Presented by the Venezuelan Studies section
Winner
Masaya Llavaneras Blanco and Antulio Rosales
Huron University College at Western University and York University
Embodying the cost of a predatory state: Depletion via social reproduction in Venezuela’s crisis (2013-2021)
Honorable Mention
José Manuel Puente
Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA) - IE University- España
Venezuela, 1980-2022: la historia de un colapso que pudo ser evitado
Premio Paula Vásquez 2025 al mejor artículo sobre Venezuela en el área de humanidades
Presented by the Venezuelan Studies section
Winner
Fidel Rodríguez Velásquez
Centro de Investigaciones Históricas Antropológicas y Culturales (CIHAC AIP)
Isabel and Orocomay: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Politics of Territorial Control in the Sixteenth-Century Caribbean
Honorable Mention
Santiago Acosta
Yale University
Unearthing Value: Visions of Gold in Contemporary Venezuelan Art
ALAA-LASA VCS Afro-Latin American Scholarship Prize
Presented by the Visual Culture Studies section
Winner
Paul Niell
Florida State University
“Following the Footsteps of Juana Agripina: Slavery, Memory, and the Architecture of Invisibility in Ponce, Puerto Rico,” Architectures of Slavery: Ruins and Reconstructions, edited by Nathaniel Robert Walker and Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann (The University of Virginia Press, 2025), 94–115
Best Book in Latin American Visual Culture Studies 2025
Presented by the Visual Culture Studies section
Winner
Kency Cornejo
Universidad de California en Los Angeles
Visual Disobedience. Art and Decoloniality in Central America
Winner
Paola Uparela
University of Florida
Invaginaciones coloniales.Mirada, genitalidad y (de)generación en la Modernidad temprana
Best Book in Latin American Visual Culture Studies 2026
Presented by the Visual Culture Studies section
Winner
Paloma Checa-Gismero
Swarthmore College
Biennial Boom: Making Contemporary Art Global (Duke UP, 2024)