Book Award - Dissertation Award
2009
Annabeth Headrick, The Teotihuacan Trinity:
The Sociopolitical Structure of an Ancient
Mesoamerican City. University of Texas Press, 2007.
2008
Olivier Debroise, ed., La era de la discrepencia/the age of discrepancies. Arte y cultura visual en México/art and visual culture in Mexico, 1968-1997. Mexico City: Universidad Nacional de Autónoma de México.
2007
Virginia M. Fields and Dorie Reents-Budet, Lords of Creation: The Origins of Sacred Maya Kingship. London: Scala.
2006
Gabriela Siracusano, El poder de los colores: de lo material a lo simbólico en las prácticas culturales andinas: siglos XVI-XVII. Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica de Argentina.
Honorable Mentions
Elena Phipps, Johanna Hecht, Cristina Esteras Martin, The Colonial Andes: Tapestries and Silverwork, 1530-1830. New York and New Haven: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press.
2005
Jaime Caudriello, Las glorias de la república de Tlaxcala: o la conciencia como imagen sublime. Mexico, D.F.: Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas.
Honorable Mentions
Ilona Katzew, Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Matthew Looper, Lightning Warrior: Maya Art and Kingship at Quirigua. Austin: University of Texas Press.
2004
Magali Carrera, Imagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Honorable Mentions
Diana DuPont, editor and co-author with Luis-Martín Lozano, Cuauhtémoc Medina, and Eduardo de la Vega Alfaro, Risking the Abstract: Mexican Modernism and the Art of Gunther Gerzso. Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
2003
Rebecca Stone-Miller, Seeing with New Eyes: Highlights of The Michael C. Carlos Museum Collection of Art of The Ancient Americas. Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum.
Honorable Mentions
Allen Christenson, Art and Society in a Highland Maya Community: The Altarpiece of Santiago Atitlán. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Laura Malosetti Costa, Los primeros modernos. Arte y sociedad en Buenos Aires a fines del siglo XIX. Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica de Argentina, S.A.
Nelly Sigaut, Tatiana Falcón y Javier Vázquez Negrete, José Jaurez. Discursos y recursos del arte de pintar. México: Museo Nacional de Arte.
2002
Andrea Giunta, Vanguardia, internacionalismo, y política:arte Argentino en los años sesenta. Buenos Aires: Paídos Press.
Honorable Mentions
Merideth Paxton, The Cosmos of the Yucatec Maya: Cycles and Steps in the Madrid Codex. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Honorable Mentions
Jacqueline Barnitz, 20th Century Art of Latin America. Austin: University of Texas Press.
2001
Elizabeth Hill Boone, Stories in Red and Black: Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs. Austin: University of Texas Press.
2009
Lynda Klich. “Revolution and Utopia: Estridentismo and the Visual Arts, 1921-27.”
2007
Daniela Bleichmar. "Visual Culture in Eighteenth-Century Natural History: Botanical Illustrations and Expeditions in the Spanish Americas."
2005
Anna Indych-López. "Mexican Muralism Without Walls: The Critical Reception of Portable Work by Orozco, Rivera, and Siqueiros in the United States, 1927-1940."