New England Council of Latin American Studies - NECLAS

The NECLAS mission is to foster and develop interests in Latin American studies by scholars, researchers, teachers, students, and the general public primarily located in the New England region, to encourage more effective training, teaching and research in Latin American affairs, and to facilitate greater exchanges within the region of information and ideas through lectures, forum, seminars, conferences, and publications.

NECLAS 2012

November 3, 2012 at Yale University

Prize Nominations

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Deadline: July 1, 2012

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NECLAS is delighted to announce the 2011 Prize Winners:

BEST BOOK

Federico Finchelstein, The New School, Transatlantic Fascism: Ideology, Violence, and the Sacred in Argentina and Italy, 1919-1945

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BEST DISSERTATION

Patricia Acerbi, Russell Sage College, “Slave Legacies, Ambivalent Modernity:  Street Commerce and the Transtion to Free Labor in Rio de Janeiro, 1850-1925”

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BEST MEDIA

Julia Rodríguez, University of New Hampshire, HOSLAC: History of Science in Latin America and the Caribbean (www.hoslac.org)

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BEST ARTICLE

David Carey, University of Southern Maine, and M. Gabriela Torres, Wheaton College,

“Precursors to Femicide: Guatemalan Women in a Vortex of Violence,” Latin American Research Review, vol. 38, no. 7.