Warren Dean Memorial Prize

2025
Mary Hicks, Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press, 2024)
Honorable Mention:
Marc Hertzman, After Palmares: Diaspora, Inheritance, and the Afterlives of Zumbi (Duke University Press, 2024)

2024
Kirsten Schultz, From Conquest to Colony: Empire, Wealth, and Difference in Eighteenth-Century Brazil (Yale University Press, 2023)
Hal Langfur, Adrift on an Inland Sea: Misinformation and the Limits of Empire in the Brazilian Backlands (Stanford University Press, 2023)

2023
Seth Garfield, Guaraná: How Brazil Embraced the World’s Most Caffeine-Rich Plant (University of North Carolina Press, 2022)
Honorable Mention:
B. J. Barickman and eds. Hendrik Kraay and Bryan McCann, From Sea-Bathing to Beach-Going: A Social History of the Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (University of New Mexico Press, 2022)

2022
Frederico Freitas, Nationalizing Nature: Iguazu Falls and National Parks at the Brazil-Argentina Border (Cambridge University Press, 2021)

2021
John D. French, Lula and His Politics of Cunning: From Metalworker to President of Brazil (University of North Carolina Press, 2020)
Honorable Mentions:
Jeffrey D. Needell, The Sacred Cause: The Abolitionist Movement, Afro-Brazilian Mobilization, and Imperial Politics in Rio de Janeiro (Stanford University Press, 2020)
Erika Helgen, Religious Conflict in Brazil: Protestants, Catholics and the Rise of Religious Pluralism in the Early Twentieth Century (Yale University Press, 2020)

2020
Jessica Graham, Shifting the Meaning of Democracy: Race, Politics, and Culture in the United States and Brazil (University of California Press, 2019)

2019
Yuko Miki, Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Honorable Mention:
Anne G. Hanley, The Public Good and the Brazilian State: Municipal Finance and Public Services In Sao Paulo, 1822–1930 (University of Chicago Press, 2018)

2018
Patricia Acerbi, Street Occupations: Urban Vending in Rio de Janeiro, 1850-1925 (University of Texas Press, 2017)
Honorable Mentions:
Antoine Acker, Volkswagen in the Amazon: The Tragedy of Global Development in Modern Brazil (University of Cambridge Press, 2017)
Eve Buckley, Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil (University of Cambridge Press, 2017)

2017
Celso Castilho, Slave Emancipation and Transformations in Brazilian Political Citizenship (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
Honorable Mention:
Mary Karach, Before Brasília: Frontier Life in Central Brazil (University of New Mexico Press, 2016)

2016
Barbara Weinstein, The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil (Duke University Press, 2015)
Honorable Mention:
João Reis, The Story of Domingos Sodré, an African Priest in Nineteenth-Century Brazil (Cambridge University Press, 2015)

2015
Roger Kittleson, The Country of Football: Soccer and the Making of Modern Brazil (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014)

2014
Hendrik Kraay, Days of National Festivity in Rio de Janeiro, 1823-1889 (Stanford University Press, 2013)

2013
Paulina Alberto, Terms of Inclusion: Black Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century Brazil (University of North Carolina Press, 2011)

2011
Thomas Rogers, The Deepest Wounds: A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil (University of North Carolina University Press, 2010)
Honorable Mentions:
Mark Harris, Rebellion on the Amazon: The Cabanagem, Race, and Popular Culture in the North of Brazil, 1798-1840 (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
Heather Flynn Roller, “Colonial Collecting Expeditions and the Pursuit of Opportunities in the Amazonian Sertão, c. 1750-1800,” The Americas 66, no. 4 (April 2010): 435-467.

2009
Brodwyn Fisher, A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth Century Rio de Janiero (Stanford University Press, 2008)

2007
Jeffrey Needell, The Party of Order: The Conservatives, the State, and Slavery in the Brazilian Monarchy, 1831-1871 (Stanford University Press, 2006)
Honorable Mention:
Hal Langfur, Forbidden Lands: Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence, and the Persistence of Brazil’s Eastern Indians, 1750-1830 (Stanford University Press, 2006)

2005
Todd Diacon, Stringing Together a Nation: Candido Mariano de Silva Rondon and the Construction of Modern Brazil, 1906-1930 (Duke University Press, 2004)
Honorable Mention:
Linda Lewin, Surprise Heirs, vol. 2 (Stanford University Press, 2003)

2003
Peter Beattie, The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil, 1864-1945 (Duke University Press, 2001)
Honorable Mention:
Hendrik Kraay, Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil: Bahia, 1790s-1840s (Stanford University Press, 2001)

2002
Sergio Díaz-Briquets and Jorge Pérez-López, Conquering Nature: The Environmental Legacy of Socialism in Cuba (Pittsburgh University Press, 2000)

2001
Roderick J. Barman, Citizen Emperor: Pedro II and the Making of Brazil, 1825-1891 (Stanford University Press, 1999)
Honorable Mention:
Judy Bieber, Power, Patronage, and Political Violence: State Building on a Brazilian Frontier, 1822-1889 (University of Nebraska Press, 1999)

2000
No award given

1999
Stephen Bell, Campanha gaúcha: A Brazilian Ranching System, 1850-1920 (Stanford University Press, 1998)
Honorable Mention:
Thomas Cohen, The Fire of Tongues: António Vieira and the Missionary Church in Brazil and Portugal (Stanford University Press, 1998)