Paul Vanderwood Prize

2025
Rachel Kaufman, “A Mosaic of Exchange: History, Memory, and Representation of Women in the Borderlands Captivity Archive,” Colonial Latin American Review 33, no. 3 (2024): 347-376.
Honorable Mention:
José Carlos de la Puente Luna, “Customs Apart: Rethinking Inheritance and Competing Land Claims among Native Commoner Women in Colonial Andean Villages,” Colonial Latin American Review 33, no. 1 (2024): 79-104.

2024
Viridiana Hernández Fernández, “The March of Empire: The Californian Quest for Avocados in Early-Twentieth Century Mexico,” Global Food History 10, no. 1 (2023): 109-133.
Honorable Mention:
Ángela Pérez-Villa, “Enslaved Litigants, Emotions, and a Shifting Legal Landscape in Cauca, Colombia (1825–1831),” Journal of Social History 57, no. 1 (2023): 49-77.

2023
Kristie Patricia Flannery, “Can the Devil Cross the Deep Blue Sea?: Imagining the Spanish Pacific and Vast Early America from Below,” The William and Mary Quarterly 79, no. 1 (2022): 31-60.
Honorable Mention:
Natasha Lightfoot, “So Far to Leeward: Eliza Moore’s Fugitive Cosmopolitan Routes to Freedom in the Nineteenth Century Caribbean,” The William and Mary Quarterly 79, no. 1 (2022): 61-88.

2022
Kevan Antonio Aguilar, “From Comrades to Subversives: Mexican Secret Police and ‘Undesirable’ Spanish Exiles, 1939-60,” Journal of Latin American Studies 53 (2021): 1-24.
Honorable Mention:
Ana María Silva Campos, “Fragile Fortunes: Afro-descended Women, Property Seizures, and the Remaking of Urban Cartagena,” Colonial Latin American Review 30, no. 2 (2021): 197-213.

2021
Anne Rubenstein, “A Sentimental and Sexual Education: Men, Sex, and Movie Theaters, 1920-2010,” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 36, nos. 1-2 (2020): 216-242.

2020
Roberto Franco, “Todos/as somos 41: ‘The Dance of the Forty-One from Homosexual Reappropriation to Transgender Representation in Mexico, 1945-2001,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 28, no. 1 (2019): 66-95.
Honorable Mention:
Andrew Walker, “All Spirits Are Roused,” Slavery and Abolition 40, no. 3 (2019): 583-605.

2019
Adriana Chira, “Affective Debts: Manumission by Grace and the Making of Gradual Emancipation Laws in Cuba, 1817–68,” Law and History Review 36, no. 1 (2018): 1-33.
Honorable Mention:
Ernesto Capello, “From Imperial Pyramids to Anticolonial Sundials: Commemorating and Contesting French Geodesy in Ecuador,” Journal of Historical Geography 62 (2018): 37-50.

2018
Marc Hertzman, “Fatal Differences: Suicide, Race and Forced Labor in the Americas,” American Historical Review 122, no. 2 (2017): 317-45.
Honorable Mention:
Ryan C. Edwards, “Convicts and Conservation: Inmate Labor, Fires and Forestry in Southernmost Argentina,” Journal of Historical Geography 56, no. 2 (April 2017): 1-13.

2017
Marjoleine Kars, “Dodging Rebellion: Women and a Politics of Gender in the Berbice Slave Rebellion,” American Historical Review 121, no. 1 (February 2016): 36-69.
Honorable Mention:
Cristina Soriano and Krisna Huette-Orihuela, “Remembering the Slave Rebellion of Coro: Historical Memory and Politics in Venezuela,” Ethnohistory 63, no. 2 (April 2016): 327-350.

2016
Marcy Norton, “The Chicken or the Iegue: Human-Animal Relationships and the Columbian Exchange,” American Historical Review 120, no. 1 (2015): 28-60.
Honorable Mention:
Rachel Hynson, “‘Count, Capture, and Reeducate’: The Campaign to Rehabilitate Cuba’s Female Sex Workers, 1959–1966,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 24, no. 1 (2015): 125-153.

2015
Zeb Tortorici, “Visceral Archives of the Body: Consuming the Dead, Digesting the Divine,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 20, no. 4 (2014): 407-437.

2014
Michel Gobat, “The Invention of Latin America: A Transnational History of Anti-Imperialism, Democracy, and Race,” The American Historical Review 118, no. 5 (2013): 1345-1375.

2013
Ada Ferrer, “Haiti, Free Soil, and Antislavery in the Revolutionary Atlantic,” Antislavery In The Atlantic World 117, no. 1 (2012): 40-66.

2012
Bianca Premo, “An Equity Against the Law: Slave Rights and Creole Jurisprudence in Spanish America,” Slavery & Abolition 32, no. 4 (2011): 495–517.
Honorable Mention:
Brian Bockelman, “Between the Gaucho and the Tango: Popular Songs and the Shifting Landscape of Modern Argentine Identity, 1895–1915,” The American Historical Review 116, no. 3 (2011): 577–601.

2011
Celso Castilho and Camillia Cowling, “Funding Freedom, Popularizing Politics: Abolitionism and Local Emancipation Funds in 1880s Brazil,” Luso-Brazilian Review 47, no. 1 (Spring 2010): 89-120.

2010
David Carey, “Guatemala’s Green Revolution: Synthetic Fertilizer, Public Health, and Economic Autonomy in the Mayan Highlands,” Agricultural History 83, no. 3 (Summer 2009): 283-322.
Honorable Mention:
Brenda Elsey, “The Independent Republic of Football: The Politics of Neighborhood Clubs in Santiago. Chile, 1948-1960,” Journal of Social History 42, no. 3 (Spring 2009): 605-630.

2009
Robert Haskett, “Dying for Conversion:  Faith, Obedience, and the Tlaxcalan Boy Martyrs in New Spain,” Colonial Latin American Review (December 2008): 185-212.
Honorable Mention:
Margaret Power, “The Engendering of Anticommunism and Fear in Chile’s 1964 Presidential Election,” Diplomatic History 32, no. 5 (November 2008): 931-953.

2008
Brian DeLay, “Independent Indians and the U.S.-Mexican War,” American Historical Review 112, no. 1 (February 2008): 35-68.

2007
Lyman Johnson and Zephyr Frank, “Cities and Wealth in the South Atlantic: Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro before 1860,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 48, no. 3 (July 2006): 634-668.
Honorable Mention:
Barbara Weinstein, “Inventing the ‘Mulher Paulista’: Politics, Rebellion and the Gendering of Brazilian Regional Identities,” The Journal of Women’s History 18, no. 1 (Spring 2006): 22-49.

2006
Hal Langfur, “Moved by Terror: Frontier Violence as Cultural Exchange in Late-Colonial Brazil,” Ethnohistory 52, no. 2 (Spring 2005): 255-289.
Honorable Mention:
Christine Ehrick, “To Serve the Nation: Juvenile Mothers, Paternalism, and State Formation in Uruguay, 1910-1930,” Social Science History 29, no. 3 (Fall 2005): 489-518.

2005
Paul Gootenberg, “Secret Ingredients: The Politics of Coca in US-Peruvian Relations, 1915-65,” Journal of Latin American Studies 36, no. 2 (May 2004): 233-265.

2004
Carolyn Dean and Dana Leibsohn, “Hybridity and Its Discontents: Considering Visual Culture in Colonial Spanish America,” Colonial Latin American Review 12, no. 1 (Fall 2003): 5-35.

2003
David Cahill, “The Virgin and the Inca: An Incaic Procession in the City of Cuzco in 1692,” Ethnohistory 49, no. 3 (Summer 2002): 611-649.
Honorable Mentions:
Karen Vieira Powers “Conquering Discourses of Sexual Conquest: Of Women, Language, and Mestizaje,” Colonial Latin American Review 11, no. 1 (April 2002): 7-32
Rebecca Scott and Michael Zeuske, “Property in Writing, Property on the Ground: Pigs, Horses, Land, and Citizenship in the Aftermath of Slavery, Cuba 1880-1909,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 44, no. 4 (October 2002): 669-699.

2002
Steve Marquardt, “Green Havoc?: Panama Disease, Environmental Change, and Labor Process in the Central American Banana Industry,” American Historical Review 106, no. 1 (February 2001): 49-80.

2001
Linda K. Salvucci and Richard Salvucci, “Cuba and the Latin American Terms of Trade:  Old Theories, New Evidence,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 31, no. 2 (Autumn 2000): 197-222.
Honorable Mention:
Joan Bak, “Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in Brazil: The Negotiation of Workers’ Identities in Porto Alegre’s 1906 Strike,” Latin American Research Review 35, no. 3 (2000): 83-123.

2000
Sergio Serulnikov, “Customs and Rules: Bourbon Rationalizing Projects and Social Conflicts in Northern Potosí during the 1770s,” Colonial Latin American Review 8, no. 21 (April 1999): 245-274.
Honorable Mention:
Peter M. Beattie, “Conscription Versus Penal Servitude: Army Reform’s Influence on the Brazilian State’s Management of Social Control, 1870-1930,” Journal of Social History 32, no. 4 (Summer 1999): 847-878.

1999
Erik Ching and Virginia Tilley, “Indians, the Military and the Rebellion of 1932 in El Salvador,” Journal of Latin American Studies 30, no. 1 (February 1998): 121-156.

1998
Adrian Bantjes, “Idolatry and Iconoclasm in Revolutionary Mexico:  The Dechristianization Campaigns, 1929-1940,” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 13, no. 1 (Winter 1997): 87-120.
Honorable Mentions:
Andres Guerrero, “The Construction of a Ventriloquist’s Image: Liberal Discourse and the ‘Miserable Indian Race’ in Late 19th Century Ecuador,” Journal of Latin American Studies 29, no. 3 (October 1997): 555-590.
Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, “The Intersection of Rape and Marriage in Late-Colonial and Early National Mexico,” Colonial Latin American Historical Review 6, no. 4 (Fall 1997): 559-590.

1997
Thomas Miller Klubock, “Working-Class Masculinity, Middle Class Morality, and Labor Politics in the Chilean Copper Mines,” Journal of Social History 30, no. 2 (Winter 1996): 435-463.
Honorable Mention:
Michael J. Schroeder, “Horse Thieves to Rebels to Dogs: Political Gang Violence and the State in the Western Segovias, Nicaragua, in the time of Sandino, 1926-1934,” Journal of Latin American Studies 28, no. 2 (May 1996): 383-434.

1996
Mark Thurner, “’Republicanos’ and ‘La Comunidad de Peruanos’: Unimagined Political Communities in Postcolonial Andean Peru,” Journal of Latin American Studies 27, no. 2 (May 1995): 291-318.

1995
Lauren Derby, “Haitians, Magic, and Money: Raza and Society in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands, 1900 to 1937,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 36, no. 3 (July 1994): 488-526.
Honorable Mention:
Rebecca Scott, “Defining the Boundaries of Freedom in the World of Cane: Cuba, Brazil, and Louisiana after Emancipation,” American Historical Review 74, no. 3 (August 1994): 70-102.

1994
Jonathan C. Brown, “Foreign and Native-Born Workers in Porfirian Mexico,” American Historical Review 98, no. 3 (June 1993): 768-818.

1993
Muriel Nazzari, “Transition Toward Slavery: Changing Legal Practice Regarding Indians in Seventeenth-Century São Paulo,” The Americas 49, no. 2 (October 1992): 131-155.
Honorable Mention:
Alan M. Taylor, “External Dependence, Demographic Burdens, and Argentina’s Economic Decline After the Belle Epoque,” Journal of Economic History 52, no. 4 (December 1992): 907-936.

1990
William Culver and Cornel Reinhart, “Capitalist Dreams: Chile’s Response to Nineteenth-Century Copper Competition,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 31, no. 4 (October 1989): 722-744.
Honorable Mention:
Laird W. Bergad, “The Economic Viability of Super Production Based on Slave Labor in Cuba, 1859-1878,” Latin American Research Review 24, no. 1 (1989): 95-113.

1989
Eric Van Young, “The Islands in the Storm: Quiet Cities and Violent Countrysides in the Mexican Independence Era,” Past and Present 118, no. 1 (February 1988): 130-155.
Honorable Mention:
Daniel James, “October 17th and 18th, 1945: Mass Protest, Peronism and the Argentine Working Class,” Journal of Social History 21, no. 3 (Spring 1989): 441-461.

1988
William B. Taylor, “The Virgin of Guadalupe in New Spain: An Inquiry into the Social History of Marian Devotion,” American Ethnologist 14, no. 1 (February 1987): 9-33.

1987
Mark D. Szuchman, “Household Structure and Political Crisis:  Buenos Aires, 1810-1860,” Latin American Research Review 21, no. 3 (1986): 55-93.
Honorable Mention:
David G. LaFrance, “Germany, Revolutionary Nationalism, and the Downfall of President Francisco I. Madero: The Covadonga Killings,” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 2, no. 1 (Winter 1986): 59-82.

1986
Ramón A. Gutiérrez, “Honor Ideology, Marriage Negotiation, and Class-Gender Domination in New Mexico, 1690-1846,” Latin American Perspectives 12, no. 1 (January 1985): 81-104.

1985
Rebecca J. Scott, “Explaining Abolition: Contradiction, Adaptation, and Challenge in Cuban Slave Society, 1860-1886,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 26 no. 1 (January 1984): 83-111.

1984
Samuel Baily, “Adjustment of Italian Immigrants in Buenos Aires and New York, 1870-1914,” American Historical Review 88, no. 2 (April 1983): 281-305.

1983
John Coatsworth, “The Limits of Colonial Absolutism: The State in Eighteenth Century Mexico,” in Karen Spalding, ed., Essays in the Political, Economic, and Social History of Colonial Latin America (University of Delaware Press, 1982), 25-82.

1982
Donna J. Guy, “Women, Peonage, and Industrialization: Argentina, 1810-1914,” Latin American Research Review 16, no. 3 (1981): 65-90.

1981
Inga Clendinnen, “Landscape and World View: The Survival of Yucatec Maya Culture Under Spanish Conquest,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 22, no. 3 (July 1980): 374-393.
Honorable Mention:
Elizabeth A. Kuznesof, “The Role of the Female-Headed Household in Brazilian Modernization: São Paulo, 1765-1836,” Journal of Social History 13, no. 4 (Summer 1980): 589-613.

1980
Linda Lewin, “Some Historical Implications of Kinship Organization for Family-based Politics in the Brazilian Northeast,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 21, no. 2 (April 1979): 262-292.
Honorable Mention:
John H. Coatsworth, “Indispensable Railroads in a Backward Economy: The Case of Mexico,” Journal of Economic History 39, no. 4 (December 1979): 939-960.

1979
Louis A. Perez, Jr., “’La Chambelona’: Political Protest, Sugar, and Social Banditry in Cuba, 1914-1917,” Inter-American Economic Affairs 31, no. 4 (Spring 1978): 3-27.
Honorable Mentions:
Stuart B. Schwartz, “Indian Labor and New World Plantations: European Demands and Indian Responses in Northeastern Brazil,” American Historical Review 83, no. 1 (February 1978): 43-79.
John Womack, Jr., “The Mexican Economy During the Revolution, 1910-1920: Historiography and Analysis,” Marxist Perspectives 1, no. 4 (Winter 1978): 13-56.

1978
John K. Chance and William B. Taylor, “Estate and Class in a Colonial City: Oaxaca in 1792,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 19, no. 4 (October 1977): 454-487.
Honorable Mentions:
Michael L. Conniff, “Guayaquil Through Independence:  Urban Development in a Colonial System,” The Americas 33, no. 3 (January 1977): 385-410.
John Hoyt Williams, “Foreign Tecnicos and the Modernization of Paraguay, 1840-1870,” Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs 19, no. 2 (May 1977): 233-257.

1977
Roderick Barman and Jean Barman, “The Role of the Law Graduate in the Political Elite of Imperial Brazil,” Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 18, no. 4 (November 1976): 423-450.
Honorable Mention:
Ralph della Cava, “Catholicism and Society in Twentieth Century Brazil,” Latin American Research Review 11, no. 2 (1976): 7-50.

1976
Leon G. Campbell, “The Changing Racial and Administrative Structure of the Peruvian Military Under the Later Bourbons,” The Americas 32, no. 1(July 1975): 117-133.
Honorable Mention:
Stanley E. Hilton, “Vargas and Brazilian Economic Development, 1930-1945: A Reappraisal of His Attitude Toward Industrialization and Planning,” Journal of Economic History 35, no. 4 (December 1975): 754-778.

1975
John M. Hart, “Nineteenth Century Urban Labor Precursors of the Mexican Revolution:  The Development of an Ideology,” The Americas 30, no. 3 (January 1974): 297-318.
Honorable Mention:
David Nicholls, “A Work of Combat: Mulatto Historians and the Haitian Past,” Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 16, no. 1 (February 1974): 15-38.

1974
Charles A. Hale, “Reconstruction of Nineteenth Century Politics in South America: A Case for the History of Ideas,” Latin American Research Review 8, no. 2 (Summer 1973): 53-73.
Honorable Mention:
Patricia Aufderheide, “True Confessions: The Inquisition and Social Attitudes in Brazil at the Turn of the XVII Century,” Luso-Brazilian Review 10, no. 2 (Winter 1973): 208-240.

1973
James R. Scobie, “Buenos Aires as a Commercial-Bureaucratic City, 1880-1910:  Characteristics of a City’s Orientation,” American Historical Review 77, no. 4 (October 1972): 1035-1073.
Honorable Mention:
Arnold J. Bauer, “The Hacienda El Huique in the Agrarian Structure of Nineteenth-Century Chile,” Agricultural History 46, no. 4 (October 1972): 455-470.

1972
Carl Solberg, “Rural Unrest and Agrarian Policy in Argentina, 1912-1930,” Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs 13, no. 1 (January 1971): 18-52.
Honorable Mentions:
Arnold J. Bauer, “Chilean Rural Labor in the Nineteenth Century,” American Historical Review 76, no. 4 (October 1971): 1059-1083.
Karen Spalding, “The Colonial Indian: Past and Future Research Perspectives,” Latin American Research Review 7, no. 1 (Spring 1972): 47-76.

1971
Joseph Love, “Political Participation in Brazil,” Luso-Brazilian Review 7, no. 2 (Winter 1970): 3-24.
Honorable Mention:
Joyce F. Riegelhaupt and Shepard Forman, “Bodo Was Never Brazilian:  Economic Integration and Rural Development Among a Contemporary Peasantry,” Journal of Economic History 30, no. 1 (March 1970): 100-116.

1970
Michael P. Costeloe, “Guadalupe Victoria and a Personal Loan from the Church in Independent Mexico,” The Americas 25, no. 3 (January 1969): 223-246.
Hermannus Hoetink, “Materiales para el estudio de la República Dominicana en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX,” Caribbean Studies 8, no. 3 (January-July 1969): 3-22.
Honorable Mentions:
Joseph S. Tulchin, “The Argentine Proposal for Non-Belligerency,” Journal of Inter-American Studies 11, no. 4 (October 1969): 571-604.
Richard E. Greenleaf, “The Mexican Inquisition and the Masonic Movement: 1751-1820,” New Mexico Historical Review 44, no. 2 (1969): 93-117.
Joseph A. Boromé, “How Crown Colony Government Came to Dominica by 1898,” Caribbean Studies 9, no. 3 (October 1969): 26-67.
Truman R. Clark, “President Taft and the Puerto Rican Appropriation Crisis of 1909,” The Americas 26, no. 2 (October 1969): 152-170.

1969
No award given

1968
Richard E. Greenleaf, “The Obraje in the Late Mexican Colony,” The Americas 23, no. 2 (January 1967): 227-250.
Honorable Mentions:
Fredrick B. Pike, “Church and State in Peru and Chile since 1840,” American Historical Review 73, no. 1 (October 1967): 30-50.
Harris Gaylord Warren, “The Paraguay Central Railway, 1856-1889,” Inter-American Economic Affairs 20, no. 4 (Spring 1967): 3-22.
Harris Gaylord Warren, “The Paraguay Central Railway, 1889-1907,” Inter-American Economic Affairs 21, no. 1 (Summer 1967): 31-48.
Richard E. Greenleaf, “The Mexican Inquisition and the Enlightenment, 1763-1805,” New Mexico Historical Review 41, no. 3 (July 1966): 181-196.

1967
Herbert S. Klein, “Peasant Communities in Revolt: The Tzeptal Republic of 1712,” Pacific Historical Quarterly 35, no. 3 (August 1966): 247-263.
Honorable Mentions:
Stanley E. Hilton, “Argentine Neutrality, September 1939-June 1940,” The Americas 22, no. 3 (January 1966): 227-257.
Harris Gaylord Warren, “The Paraguay Central Railway, 1856-1907,” Inter-American Economic Affairs 20, no. 4 (Spring 1967): 3-22 and 21, no. 1 (Summer 1967): 31-48.

1966
Howard F. Cline, “The Oztoticpac Lands Map of Texcoco, 1540,” Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 23, no. 2 (April 1966): 76-115.
Honorable Mention (posthumous):
George W. Baker Jr., “The Wilson Administration and Nicaragua, 1913-1921,” The Americas 22, no. 4 (April 1966): 339-376.
Honorable Mention:
Lyle N. McAlister, “Recent Research and Writings on the Role of the Military in Latin America,” Latin American Research Review 2, no. 1 (Fall 1966): 5-36.

1965
Dauril Alden, “The Growth and Decline of Indigo Production in Colonial Brazil: A Study in Comparative Economic History,” Journal of Economic History 25, no. 1 (March 1965): 35-60.

1964
George W. Baker, “Ideals and Realities in the Wilson Administration’s Relations with Honduras,” The Americas 21, no. 1 (July 1964): 3-19.
Honorable Mention:
Dauril Alden, “Yankee Sperm Whalers in Brazilian Waters and the Decline of the Portuguese Whale Fisheries, 1773-1801,” The Americas 20, no. 2 (January 1964): 267-288.

1963
Francisco Miró Quesada, “Metaphysics and Latin American Ideology,” Journal of the History of Ideas 24, no. 4 (October-December 1963): 539-552.
Honorable Mention:
Matthew Edel, “Land Reform in Puerto Rico, 1940-1959: Part One,” Caribbean Studies 2, no. 3 (October 1962): 26-60.
Matthew Edel, “Land Reform in Puerto Rico, 1940-1959: Part Two,” Caribbean Studies 2, no. 4 (January 1963): 28-50.

1962
Richard M. Morse, “Some Characteristics of Latin American Urban History,” American Historical Review 67, no. 2 (January 1962): 317-338.