2019
Kearney Lecture Award
Yarimar Bonilla, Rutgers University
The Coloniality of Disaster: Race, Empire, and Emergency in Puerto Rico, USA
Book Award
Winner: Kathleen M. Millar (Simon Fraser University), Reclaiming the Discarded: Life and Labor in Rio’s Garbage Dump (Duke University Press).
Honorable Mention: Alexander L. Fattal (UC San Diego), Guerilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia (University of Chicago Press).
Roseberry-Nash Graduate Student Paper Award
Winner: Daniel Salas (Dalhousie University), “Practices of Double Currency: Value and Politics in Rural Cuba”
Honorable Mention: Felipe Fernández Lozano (Freie Universität, Berlin), “Diseños para escalar la infraestructura. A propósito de la intervención estatal en el casco urbano de Buenaventura, Colombia.”
2018
Book Award
Winner: Alex E. Chávez (University of Notre Dame), Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migrations, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño (Duke University Press).
Honorable Mention: Mariana Mora (CIESAS, Mexico), Kuxlejal Politics: Indigenous Autonomy, Race, and Decolonizing Research in Zapatista Communities (University of Texas Press).
Roseberry-Nash Graduate Student Paper Award
Winner: Jennifer Cearns (University College London), “The ‘Mula Ring’: networks of material circulation and exchange through the Cuban world.”
Honorable Mention: Werner B. Hertzog (Vanderbilt University), “The Economics of Nativist Cycles: Credit, Liquidity, and the Highland Chiapas ‘Cargo Bubble,’ 1940-1970.”
2017
Kearney Lecture Award
Marc Edelman, Hunter College & The Graduate Center, City University of New York
¿Cuánta soberanía alimentaria se puede conseguir por un millón de dólares?
Book Award
Winner: Angela Steusse (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill), Scratching Out a Living: Latinos, Race, and Work in the Deep South (University of California Press).
Honorable Mention: Christina Bueno (Northeastern Illinois University), The Pursuit of Ruins: Archaeology, History, and the Making of Modern Mexico (University of New Mexico Press).
Roseberry-Nash Graduate Student Paper Award
Winner: Luis Alfredo Briceño González (Flacso-Ecuador), “Agencia indígena y recuperación de territorio: caso del líder yukpa Sabino Romero en la Sierra de Perijá.”
Whiteford Graduate Student Award
Winner: Matthew Lebrato (Indiana University), “Utilizing Local Epistemologies in Building a Framework for Indigenous/Non-Indigenous Collaborations.”
Honorable Mentions: Claudia Bongianino (National Museum/ Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), “Spiritual and Physical Borderlands: Exhibiting the Invisible Presence of God and Other Afro-Caribbean Kindred in Old Bank Panama.” and Justin Perez (University of California Irvine) “The Erotic Equation of Truth: Collective Accounts of the Internal Armed Conf