Awards, Prizes and Grants 2021
Judy B. McInnis Distinguished Service Award
Dr. Joan Marx of Muhlenberg College has achieved eminence as an outstanding scholar, professor, and leader in service to the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS), which takes pride in honoring her. Dr. Marx is a long-standing MACLAS member. Some of her contributions were as a member of the MACLAS journal, Latin American Essays editorial board from 2003 to 2006. Later she served as the managing editor from 2006 to 2011. After thirty years of publishing high-quality scholarly contributions to Latin American Studies, the printed journal was converted in 2017 into the current online publication, the Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies (MARLAS).
The 2021 Władysław Maryan Froelich Research Grant
Jeff Pugh. (University of Massachusetts, Boston) Project: Entre Voces: Voice, and Mobility in the Americas Podcast Series. To develop a podcast series exploring how marginalized groups and migrants across the Americas use their voices to contest injustice, advocate for changes, negotiate identities, and overcome exclusion and silencing.
Patricia Rodriguez. (Ithaca College) Project: Book Manuscript - Colombia. To engage in archival and interview research in Colombia that will contribute to a book project on social movements and alternatives in the peace process. T
James Street Prize
The recipient for the best paper published in MARLAS is Miguel Ángel Latouche (Universidad Central de Venezuela) Venezuela and Its Labyrinth: Institutional Change and Authoritarianism in Twenty-First Century Socialism Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies, 3(2), pp.1–26. DOI: http://doi.org/10.23870/marlas.229
Juan Espadas Prize
Gabriella Farrell was the winner of the Juan Espadas Prize for their presentation, titled “Invisibility and Resistance: Bolivian Migrant Women in Argentina and Gendered Labor Trajectories.” This presentation was based on their outstanding undergraduate thesis at Dickinson University.
John D. Martz Prize
Amanda Summers received the John D. Martz Prize for their presentation, titled “God Keeps Her in Heaven and Forgives Her But She Had a Good Soul: Gendered and Economic Power in the Converso Community of Mexico City, 1642-1649.” This presentation is based on their research as graduate student in History department at Temple University.
Arthur P. Whitaker Prize
MACLAS honored Dr. Jeffrey Pugh (Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Boston) at the annual conference in March 2021 with the Arthur P. Whitaker Prize, awarded each year for the best book published in the previous two years by a member of MACLAS. His book is titled The Invisibility Bargain: Governance Networks and Migrant Human Security (Oxford University Press, 2021). Dr. Pugh teaches conflict resolution in the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Dr. Pugh holds a Ph.D. from John Hopkins University. He is also a visiting scholar of conflict management and Latin American studies affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC. He is also the executive director of the Center for Mediation, Peace, and Resolution of Conflict (CEMPROC), based in Quito, Ecuador. He was previously assistant professor of political science at Providence College.