Whitaker Prize for best book by a MACLAS member:
Winner: George Reid Andrews, Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay (UNC Press, 2010). Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh
Honorable Mention: Betsy Konefal, For Every Indio Who Falls: A History of Maya Activism in Guatemala, 1960-1990 (University of New Mexico Press, 2010). Assistant Professor of History, William and Mary
Honorable Mention: Regina Root, Couture and Consensus: Fashion and Politics in Postcolonial Argentina (University of Minnesota Press, 2010). Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, William and Mary
Davis Prize for best article published by a MACLAS member:
Brian Turner, “Paraguay: Muchas novedades y poco cambio/Paraguay 2009: Many Differences and Little Change,” Revista de Ciencia Política, vol. 30, no. 2 (2010): 439-450.
Street Prize for best article in MACLAS: Latin American Essays: Consuelo Hernández of American University, “El Inmigrante como sujeto polidimensional en Viaje a la tierra del abuelo de Bencastro”
Martz Prize for best paper written by a graduate student and presented at the 2011 MACLAS conference:
Laura Romah, American University, MA Candidate. “Engaging Men in Gender Equality Programs: The Case of Nicaragua.”
EspadasPrize for best paper written by an undergraduate student and presented at the 2011 MACLAS conference:
Eleonora Figliuoli, “La Argentina de Martín Fierro: La encrucijada del dolor y la política”
Turner Travel Grants:
Ted Cohen, Tom Long; and Amelia Frank-Vitale.
University of Pittsburgh Travel Grants:
Ted Cohen, Paulo Fraga, Amelia Frank Vitale, Jeff Pugh, Silvia Serrano, Camelia Tigau, and Esther Moss.