2012 MACLAS Prizes and Awards
Arthur P. Whitaker Prize, for the best book published by a MACLAS member, 2010-2011: Regina A. Root, The College of William and Mary, Couture and Consensus: Fashion and Politics in Postcolonial Argentina (University of Minnesota Press, 2010)
Harold Eugene Davis Prize, for the best article published by a MACLAS member, 2010-2011: Rosa Tezanos-Pinto, University of Indiana-Purdue University Indianapolis, “La escritura diarística y la autorrepresentación en Los deseos oscuros y los otros. Cuadernos de New York, de Luisa Valenzuela,” Gramma: Revista de la Escuela de Letras, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad del Salvador 47 (2010)
John D. Martz III Prize, for the best article presented by a graduate student at the 2012 MACLAS Conference: Tom Long, American University, “Convincing the Colossus: Latin American Leaders Face the United States”
Juan Espadas Prize, for the best article presented by an undergraduate student at the 2012 MACLAS Conference: Allison Sylvester, American University, “Collective Memory of Villa Grimaldi: Contentious Frameworks for Understanding Torture After Transition in Chile”
James Street Prize, for the best article published by a MACLAS member in the 2011 volume of Latin American Essays: Mirna Trauger, Muhlenberg College, “El cuerpo y su conceptualización posmoderna en Pájaros de la playa”
Judith B. McInnis Distinguished Service Award: Jack Child, American University
Władysław Maryan Froelich Research Award: Carlos Riobó, City College of New York, CUNY
Christina Turner Graduate Student Travel Awards:
Pablo Calderón Martínez, King’s College London
Theodore Cohen, University of Virginia
A. N. Meadow, Kennesaw State University
Kate Witt, University of Maryland, Baltimore County