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CLAH
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Established 1926, this professional organization is devoted to encourage the diffusion of knowledge about Latin America. It is an affiliate of @historians.org
CLAH Fall 2025 newsletter is now available! clah.h-net.org/wp-content/u...
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October 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
See the attached flyer for info on a job opportunity! The Institute of Fine Arts at New York University is seeking an Assistant Professor for the Sheldon H. Solow Professorship in the history of architecture, any geographic area after 1400. apply.interfolio.com/175115
October 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Registration has opened for this exciting upcoming lecture series! "Mapping from Mexico" will examine how histories of Mexican cartography can rewrite common narratives and popular assumptions. See here for further details and registration information: www.newberry.org/calendar/22n....
October 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Congratulations to Kristie Flannery (@thehistoriann.bsky.social) for winning the Bolton-Johnson Prize for her book, Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World (@pennpress.bsky.social).
October 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Congratulations to Brooke Larson for winning the Bolton-Johnson Prize for her book, The Lettered Indian: Race, Nation, and Indigenous Education in Twentieth-Century Bolivia (@dukepress.bsky.social).
October 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Congratulations to Ángela Pérez-Villa for winning the CLAH Teaching Award!
October 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Congratulations to Marc Hertzman for receiving an honorable mention for the Warren Dean Prize for his book, After Palmares: Diaspora, Inheritance, and the Afterlives of Zumbi (@dukepress.bsky.social).
October 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Congratulations to Mary Hicks (@maryhicks.bsky.social) for winning the Warren Dean Prize for her book, Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery (@oieahc.bsky.social & @uncpress.bsky.social).
October 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Congratulations to Marcy Norton (@marcynorton.bsky.social) for winning the María Elena Martínez Prize for her book, The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492 (@harvardpress.bsky.social).
October 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Congratulations to Marcy Norton (@marcynorton.bsky.social) for winning the Elinor Melville Prize for her book, The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492 (@harvardpress.bsky.social).
October 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Congratulations to Yanna Yannakakis for winning the Howard F. Cline Prize for her book, Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico (@dukepress.bsky.social).
October 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Congratulations to Sarah Newman for winning the Howard F. Cline Prize for her book, Unmaking Waste: New Histories of Old Things (@uchicagopress.bsky.social).
October 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Congratulations to Fidel Rodríguez Velásquez (@fidelrodv.bsky.social) for winning the Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award for his book project, "Entangled by Pearls: Agents, Politics, and Labour in the Making of the Early Modern Atlantic World."
October 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Congratulations to our James R. Scobie Award winners: Beatriz de Souza Bravo, Jack Casey, Paloma Czapla, Nathan Darmiento, Yohad Zacarías S. (@yzacarias.bsky.social)
and Mariana Charry Esguerra! Reports on their pre-dissertation research trips will appear in our upcoming fall newsletter.
October 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Congratulations to Justin Jones for winning the Lydia Cabrera Award in support of his dissertation, "America's Most Wanted: Revolutionary Privateering and the Illegal Slave Trade in the Early Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World."
October 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Congratulations to Keith Richards for winning the Lydia Cabrera Award in support of his dissertation, "Commerce and Colonialism: Eastern Cuba and the 17th-Century Caribbean."
October 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Congratulations to José Carlos de la Puente Luna for receiving an honorable mention for his article in the Colonial Latin American Review, "Customs Apart: Rethinking Inheritance and Competing Land Claims among Native Commoner Women in Colonial Andean Villages."
October 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Congratulations to Rachel Kaufman for winning the Paul Vanderwood Prize for her article in the Colonial Latin American Review, "A Mosaic of Exchange: History, Memory, and Representation of Women in the Borderlands Captivity Archive."
October 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Congratulations to Travis Knoll for receiving an honorable mention for the Antonine Tibesar Prize for his article in The Americas, "'In the Name of the God of All Names: Yahweh, Obatalá, Olorum': The 1981 Quilombos Mass as an Ecumenical Pilgrimage in Brazil."
October 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Congratulations to Ana Vergara Sierra for winning the Antonine Tibesar Prize for her article in The Americas, "The Escribano of Babel: Power, Exile, and Enslavement in the Venezuelan Llanos during the War of Independence (1806-1833)."
October 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Congratulations to Damian Clavel and Susanna B. Hecht for receiving an honorable mention for the James Alexander Robertson Prize for their article in @hahr21.bsky.social, "Colonial Exiles: The Tambora Volcanic Explosion, Environmental History, and Swiss Immigration to Nova Friburgo, Brazil."
October 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Congratulations to Julia Madajczak for winning the James Alexander Robertson Prize for her article in @hahr21.bsky.social, "Nahua Fasting in a Series of Don'ts: An Interpretation of the Precontact Nezahualiztli Practice."
October 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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October 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
See the attached flyer for an exciting upcoming event in Kansas City, the Painted Worlds Symposium: Color, Cosmology, Materiality, and Transformation in the Indigenous Arts of Mesoamerica! It is co-hosted by UMKC's School of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
September 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Calling all Andean Studies Section members! Your section leaders, Drs. Marlen Rosas (Chair) and Silvia Escanilla Huerta (Secretary), are seeking self-nominations for next year's leadership position. If you are interested in serving CLAH in this capacity, please reach out to them!
September 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM