Dr. Monica Orozco, who earned her PhD in Latin American history from UCSB in 1999, is Director of the Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library. She established this award in 2011 to recognize the best paper on a historical subject in Latin American history produced by a graduate student in History or Latin American and Iberian Studies, with a strong preference for pre-20th-century Latin American topics.
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Current and Previous Recipients
2026, Eduardo Castro
2023, Amy Houser, “Contentious Memories: Remembering, Reconciling, and Forgetting the Recent Past in Chile
and Peru”; and Chris McQuilkin, “‘A National Calamity’: Locust Eradication Efforts in Argentina, ca. 1890-1920”
2022, Maria del Pilar Ramirez Restrepo, “What is happening in Colombia?”
2021, No Award
2020, Andreina Soto Segura, From Marronage to Reducción: Colonial Policies and Local Projects in Early Modern Venezuela; Mario Tumen, “Decolonizing Taxation: Indigenous Peasants and the Civil War of 1895 in Peru”
2019, No Award
2018, Mario Tumen, “Decolonizing Taxation: Indigenous Peasants and the Civil War of 1895 in Peru”
2017, Kevin Breu, “The AIDs Crisis in Brazil, Argentina, Haiti, and Cuba, Differing Approaches Between 1980 and 2000”
2016, Doug Genens, “A Comparative Study of 19th-century Independence Struggles in Haiti, Brazil, and Cuba.”
2015, No Award
2014, Cheryl Frei, “Representing Argentina’s Invisible Indigenous: Commemorations, Collective Memory, and the Power of Public Space.”