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. Please send a copy of the book to each member of the committee at their respective addresses. Deadline: February 10th, 2012.

Chair:
Dr. Kendall Brown
History Department
2130 JFSB
Provo, UT 84602



Dr. Alcira Dueñas
Ohio State University-Newark
583 Mawyer Dr.
Columbus, OH 43085

Jamie Sanders
History Department
Utah State
0710 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-0710



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).

2005 Francie R. Chassen-López, University of Kentucky
        From Liberal to Revolutionary Oaxaca:
        The View from the South, Mexico 1876-1911
        (University Park: Penn State University
        Press, 2004)


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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