ALAA/LASA-VCS Afro Latin American/Afro-Latinx Scholarship Prize Award Recipients

2023

Abigail Lapin-Dardashti, “Abstracted Resistance: Third-Worldism in Rubem Valentim’s Afro-Brazilian Symbolism, 1963-66.” Art Journal, 80:3 (2021), 56-77

Honorable Mention: Brendan Weaver, “La Estética Política, Espectadores Artísticos y la Arqueología de la Esclavitud: Las Haciendas Jesuitas de Nasca, Perú.” Revista de Arqueología Histórica Argentina y Latinoamericana, 15:2 (2021)

2022

Miguel Valerio, “Architects of their own humanity: race, devotion, and artistic agency in Afro-Brazilian confraternal churches in eighteenth-century Salvador and Ouro Preto,” Colonial Latin American Review 30, no. 2 (2021): 238-271.

Honorable Mention: Vincent Joos, “Echoes of Past Revolutions: Architecture, Memory, and Spectral Politics in the Historic Districts of Port-au-Prince,” Vibrant (Dossier Caribbean Routes: Ethnographic Experiences, Theoretical Challenges, and the Production of Knowledge) 17 (2020): 1-23.