LARR-Pitt Best Article Award

About the Award

The LARR-Pitt award is presented at each LASA International Congress to the best research article published by the Latin American Research Review (LARR) during the past calendar year (i.e., in the volume of the journal preceding the year of the Congress).

The award covers articles published by LARR in all disciplines and in any language. The winners are expected to be present at the LASA Congress to receive the award in person and participate in a special panel. The winners may also be invited to present their research at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt).

Call for nominations

The LARR-Pitt award is offered to the best article published by the Latin American Research Review in its last volume (i.e., the year prior to the award). Research articles published by LARR in all disciplines and any language are eligible for the award; book and documentary film reviews are not eligible.

Nominations from LARR readers and self-nominations from authors are encouraged. Nominators do not require to be LASA members. To nominate an article, complete this nomination form, providing: the title of the article, the LARR issue, the link to the article page in LARR, a brief paragraph indicating the contribution of this paper to the field of Latin American Studies, and the name and e-mail address of the nominator.

Nominations should be submitted to LASA's Award Submission System by December 31, 2019. 

Members of the 2020 Selection Committee:

Mónica Espinosa Arango (Chair)
Universidad de los Andes

Matías Dewey
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies

Caitlin Bruce
University of Pittsburgh

Award history

2020 - LARR Volume 54 (1)

AWARDEE: Albert Sergio Laguna, Assistant Professor of Ethnicity, Race and Migration, Yale University

2019 - LARR Volume 53 (2)

AWARDEE: Eli Carter, Assistant Professor of Portuguese, University of Virginia