Thomas McGann Award

Originally given to the outstanding presentation at the annual RMCLAS meeting, it is currently awarded to the outstanding book published by a member of the association in the previous calendar year.  Books should be sent to each committee member by February 28, 2010.

Chair:
Roderic Ai Camp
Claremont McKenna College
850 Columbia Ave.
Claremont, CA 91711
roderic.camp@cmc.edu



Susan Deeds
Department of History
PO Box 6023
Univ. of Northern Arizona
Building 18/Room 211
Flagstaff, Arizona 86011
susan.deeds@nau.edu


Dina Berger
Department of History
Loyola University Chicago
Crown Center, 548
1032 West Sheridan Road
Chicago, Illinois 60660
dberge2@luc.edu



Previous Award Winners
2009 Asunción Lavrin, History Deparment, Arizona State University, for
        Brides of Christ: Conventional Life in Colonial Mexico (Stanford University Press, 2008)

Honorable Mention: Samuel Brunk, History Department, University of Texas
        at El Paso, for The Posthumous Career of Emiliano Zapata: Myth, Memory,
        and Mexico's Twentieth Century, University of Texas Press, 2008.

Honorable Mention: John Dwyer, History Department, Duquesne University, for
        The Agrarian Dispute: The Expropriation of American-Owned Rural Land in
        Postrevolutionary Mexico (Duke University Press, 2008).

2004 Susan Deeds, Northern Arizona University
        Defiance and Deference in Colonial Mexico:
        Indians under Spanish Rule in Nueva Vizcaya
2003
2002
2001
2000 Ann Twinam, University of Cincinatti
        Public Lives, Private Secrets:
        Gender, Honor, Sexuality, and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America
1999 Jeffrey Pilcher, The Citadel
        ĦQue Vivan Los Tamales! Food and the Making of Mexican Identity
1998 Paul Vanderwood, San Diego State University
        The Power of God Against the Guns of Government:
        Religious Upheaval in Mexico at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
1997 Karen Powers, Northern Arizona University
        Andean Journeys:
        Migration, Ethnogenesis, and the State in Colonial Quito
1994 Frederick M. Nunn, Portland State University
        The Time of the Generals:
        Latin American Professional Militarism in World Perspective
1992 Donna Guy, University of Arizona
        Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires:
        Prostitution, Family, and Nation in Argentina




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