SECOLAS: The Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies

Alfred B. Thomas Award Recipients

Year	Award Winner
2011-2012	Emily Wakild. Revolutionary Parks: Conservation, Social Justice, and Mexico's National Parks, 1910-1940. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2011. Honorable Mention: James A. Wood. The Society of Equality. Popular Republicanism and Democracy in Santiago de Chile 1818-1851. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2011.
2010-2011	Ida Altman, The War for Mexico's West: Indians and Spaniards in New Galicia, 1524-1550. University of New Mexico Press, 2010. Honorable Mention: Jerry Dávila, Hotel Trópico: Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization, 1950-1980. Duke University Press, 2010.
2009-2010	Jan H. French. Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil's Northeast (University of North Carolina, 2009). Honorable Mention: Stephen D. Morris. Political Corruption in Mexico: The Impact of Democratization (Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner, 2009) .
2008-2009	John J. Dwyer. The Agrarian Dispute: The Expropriation of American-Owned Rural Land in Postrevolutionary Mexico (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2008). Honorable Mention: Verónica Grossi. Sigilosos v(u)elos epistemológicos en Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2007).
2007-2008	Kathleen R. Martin, Discarded Pages: Araceli Cab Cumi, Maya Poet and Politician (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007).
2006-2007	Jurgen Buchenau, Plutarco El ias Calles and the Mexican Revolution (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).
2005-2006	Michael Handelsman, Leyendo la globalización desde la mitad del mundo: Identidad y resistencia en el Ecuador (Quito: Editorial El Conejo, 2005). Honorable Mention: Stephen D. Morris, Gringolandia: Mexican Identiy and Perceptions of the United States (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).
2004-2005	Alan McPherson, Yankee No: Anti-Americanism in US-Latin American Relations (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2006). Honorable Mention: Jurgen Buchenau, Tools of Progress: A German Merchant Family in Mexico City, 1865- present (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2004)
2003-2004	Max Paul Friedman, Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign against the Germans of Latin America in World War II (New York: Cambridge UP, 2003). Honorable Mention: David A. Carey, Jr. Our Elders Teach Us: Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press 2002).
2002-2003	Merlin H. Forster, The Committed Word: Studies in Spanish-American Poetry (Oxford: University of Mississippi, Romance Monographs No. 59, 2002).
2001-2002	James Henderson, Modernization in Columbia: The Laureano Gomez Years, 1889-1965 (Gainesville: U Press of Florida, 2001).
2000-2001
1999-2000
1998-1999	Thomas Schoonover, Germany in Central America: Competitive Imperialism, 1821-1929 (Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama Press, 1998).
1997-1998	Kyle Longley, The Sparrow and the Hawk: Costa Rica and the United States during the rise of José Figueres (Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama Press, 1997).
1996-1997	Judith Ewell, Venezuela and the United States: From Monroe's Hemphere to Petroleum's Empire (Athens: U Georgia Press, 1996).
1995-1996	John A Britton, Revolution and Ideology: Images of the Mexican Revolution in the United States (Lexington: U Press of Kentucky, 1995).
1994-1995	Ralph Lee Woodward, Rafael Carrera and the Emergence of the Republic of Guatemala, 1821-1871 (Athens: U Georgia Press, 1993).
1993-1994
1992-1993	Helen Delpar, The Enormous Vogue of Things Mexican (Tuscaloosa: U Alabama Press, 1992).
1991-1992