Awards

Criteria and Details

Listing of Awards

The Murdo J. Macleod Book Prize

The Murdo J. Macleod Book PrizeEach year LACS-SHA awards a prize for the best book published in the previous year in the fields of Latin America, Caribbean, American Borderlands and Frontiers, or Atlantic World history. Authors must be or become LACS members at he time of submission.

Kimberly Hanger Article Prize

Each year LACS-SHA awards a prize for the best article published in the previous year in the fields of Latin America, Caribbean, American Borderlands and Frontiers, or Atlantic World history. Authors must be or become LACS members at he time of submission.

Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. Prize

Each year LACS-SHA awards a prize for the best graduate student article presented at the previous meeting of the SHA  in the fields of Latin America, Caribbean, American Borderlands and Frontiers, or Atlantic World history. Students must be or become LACS members by the time of the meeting to be considered.

LACS Richmond Brown Dissertation Prize

Each year LACS-SHA awards a prize for the best dissertation in Latin American, Caribbean, or borderlands history completed and defended in the previous year. Dissertations defended at any southern institution will be considered.