Bryce Wood Book Award
Acerca del premio
En cada Congreso Internacional de LASA, la Asociación de Estudios Latinoamericanos concede el Bryce Wood Book Award a un libro destacado sobre América Latina en el ámbito de las Ciencias Sociales y las Humanidades publicado en inglés.
Llamado a nominaciones
Para el Congreso Internacional de LASA2027, los libros que opten al premio deberán haber sido publicados entre el 1° de julio de 2025 y el 30 de junio de 2026. Si bien los libros no pueden participar más de una vez, se pueden considerar sus traducciones. Las antologías de selecciones de varios autores o las reediciones de obras publicadas previamente, no optan al premio. Los libros son evaluados por su calidad de investigación, análisis y redacción, y por la importancia de su contribución a los estudios latinoamericanos. Los libros pueden ser nominados por sus autores o autoras, la membresía de LASA o las editoriales.
Las personas que nominan los libros deben confirmar la fecha de publicación y cargar una copia digital al sistema. Además deben indicar la dirección postal completa, el número de teléfono y la dirección de correo electrónico de la persona nominada. Las nominaciones al Bryce Wood Book Award deben enviarse de forma electrónica completando el formulario de nominación a más tardar el 21 septiembre de 2026.
En enero del 2027, el comité seleccionará el libro ganador. También podrá otorgar una mención honorífica. El premio será anunciado durante la Ceremonia de Bienvenida de LASA2027 y la persona galardonada será homenajeada públicamente. Además, la persona premiada presentará su libro en un panel durante el Congreso. No es necesario ser miembro de LASA para recibir el premio.
Miembros del Comité 2027
Nora Nagels (Co-chair)
Université du Québec à Montréal
María José Álvarez Rivadulla (Co-chair)
Universidad de los Andes
Santiago Anria
Cornell University
Nelson Arteaga Botello
Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, México
Elisabeth Jay Friedman
University of San Francisco
Inés Fynn
Universidad Católica del Uruguay
Olivia Gomes da Cunha
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Cristina Herrera
El Colegio de México
Fabio Kerche
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Helena López González de Orduña
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Nicolás Loza Otero
Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, México
Lindsay Mayka
Colby college
Kelly S. McDonough
University of Texas at Austin
Veronica Schild
Western University
Gabriel Vommaro
Universidad Nacional de San Martín / CONICET
Historial de premios
2026
LIBRO GANADOR: Barbara Andrea Sostaita, Sanctuary Everywhere: The Fugitive Sacred in the Sonoran Desert (Duke University Press, Sept. 2024)
2025
LIBRO GANADOR: Kelly S. McDonough, Indigenous Science and Technology: Nahuas and the World Around Them (The University of Arizona Press, 2024)
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Paloma Duong, Portable Postsocialisms New Cuban Mediascapes after the End of History (University of Texas Press, 2024)
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Andrea Marston, Subterranean Matters: Cooperative Mining and Resource Nationalism in Plurinational Bolivia (Duke University Press, 2024)
2024
LIBRO GANADOR: Chelsea Schields, Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean (University of California Press, 2023)
2023
LIBRO GANADOR: Sabine F. Cadeau, More than a Massacre: Racial Violence and Citizenship in the Haitian–Dominican Borderlands (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Eduardo Moncada, Resisting Extortion: Victims, Criminals, and States in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Francesca Lessa, The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America (Yale University Press, 2022)
2022
LIBRO GANADOR: Bret Gustafson, Bolivia in the Age of Gas (Duke University Press, 2020)
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Thea Riofrancos, Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador (Duke University Press, 2020)
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Frederico Freitas, Nationalizing Nature: Iguazu Falls and National Parks at the Brazil-Argentina Border (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Kristin A. Wintersteen, The Fishmeal Revolution: The Industrialization of the Humboldt Current Ecosystem (University of California Press, 2021)
2021
LIBRO GANADOR: Jessica Graham, Shifting the Meaning of Democracy: Race, Politics, and Culture in the United States and Brazil (University of California Press, 2019)
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Paulo Drinot, The Sexual Question: A History of Prostitution in Peru, 1850s-1950s (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Kristina M. Lyons, Vital Decomposition: Soil Practitioners and Life Politics (Duke University Press, 2020)
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Kevin Lewis O’Neill, Hunted: Predation and Pentecostalism in Guatemala (University of Chicago Press, 2019)
2020
LIBRO GANADOR: Elena A. Schneider, The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, and the University of North Carolina Press, 2018)
2019
LIBRO GANADOR: Susan H. Ellison, Domesticating Democracy: The Politics of Conflict Resolution in Bolivia (Duke University Press, 2018)
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Ana R. Minian, Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration (Harvard University Press, 2018)
2018
LIBRO GANADOR: Stephen B. Neufeld, The Blood Contingent: The Military and the Making of Modern Mexico, 1876-1911 (University of New Mexico Press, 2017)
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Candelaria Garay, Social Policy Expansion in Latin America(Cambridge University Press, 2017)
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Ernesto Bassi, An Aqueous Territory. Sailor Geographies and New Granada´s Transimperial Greater Caribbean World (Duke University Press, 2017)
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Jocelyn Olcott, International Women´s Year: The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event in History (Oxford University Press, 2017)
2017
LIBRO GANADOR: Michael Albertus, Autocracy and Redistribution: The Politics of Land Reform (Cambridge University Press)
LIBRO GANADOR: Barbara E. Mundy, The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City (University of Texas Press)
2016
LIBRO GANADOR: Ann Twinam, Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies (Stanford University Press)
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Fabiana Li, Unearthing Conflict: Corporate Mining, Activism and Expertise in Peru (Duke University Press)
2015
LIBRO GANADOR: David Carey Jr., I ask for Justice: Maya Women, Dictators, and Crime in Guatemala, 1898-1944 (University of Texas Press)
LIBRO GANADOR: Thomas M. Klubock, La Frontera: Forest and Ecological Conflict in Chile’s Frontier Territory (Duke University Press)
2014
LIBRO GANADOR: Lillian Guerra, Visions of Power in Cuba: Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971 (University of North Carolina Press)
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Marc Hertzman, Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil (Duke University Press)
2013
LIBRO GANADOR: Joanne Rappaport and Tom Cummins, Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes (Duke University Press, 2012)
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Isaac Campos, Home Grown: Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico's War on Drugs (The University of North Carolina Press, 2012)
2012
LIBRO GANADOR: Jody Pavilak, Mining for the Nation: The Politics of Chile’s Coal Communities from the Popular Front on the Cold War
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Kathryn Burns, Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: James Mahoney, Colonialism and Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective
2010
LIBRO GANADOR: Brian DeLay, War of a Thousand Deserts
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Lauren Derby, The Dictator's Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo
2009
LIBRO GANADOR: Winifred Tate, Counting the Dead: The Culture and Politics of Human Rights Activism in Colombia
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Carmelo Mesa Lago, Reassembling Social Security: A Survey of Pensions and Health Care Reforms In Latin America
2007
LIBRO GANADOR: Myrna I. Santiago, The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Steve J. Stern, Battling for Hearts and Minds. Memory Struggles in Pinochet’s Chile, 1973-1988 (Vol 2)
2006
LIBRO GANADOR: Sybille Fisher, Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Steve J. Stern, Remembering Pinochet´s Chile: on the Eve of London 1998
2004
LIBRO GANADOR: Charles L. Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs, Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Leslie Salzinger, Genders in Production. Making Workers in Mexico’s Global Factories
2003
LIBRO GANADOR: Carmen Diana Deere and Magdalena León, Empowering Women: Land and Property Rights in Latin America (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002)
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Francine Masiello, The Art of Transition: Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis (Duke University Press, 2002)
2001
LIBRO GANADOR: Greg Grandin, The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Louis A. Perez Jr., On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality and Culture
2000
LIBRO GANADOR: Friedrich Katz, The Life and Times of Pancha Villa
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: José C. Moya, Cousins and Strangers
1998
LIBRO GANADOR: Mary Kay Vaughan, Cultural Politics in Revolution: Teachers, Peasants and Schools in Mexico, 1930-1940
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Terry Karl, The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Carlos Monsivais, Mexican Postcards
1997
LIBRO GANADOR: William B. Taylor, Magistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth Century Mexico
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Warren Dean, With Broadax and Firebrand: the Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
1995
LIBRO GANADOR: Florencia Mallon, Peasant and Nation: The Making of Postcolonial Mexico and Peru
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Robert G. Williams, States and Social Evolution: Coffee and the Rise of National Governments in Central America
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Life on the Hyphen: the Cuban-American Way
1994
LIBRO GANADOR: Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Berkeley, 1992 [A Centennial Book])
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Gordon Brotherston, Book of the Fourth World: Reading the Native Americans through Their History (Cambridge, 1992)
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Joyce Marcus, Meso-American Writing Systems: Propaganda, Myth and History in Four Ancient Civilizations (Princeton, 1992)
1992
LIBRO GANADOR: Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, Myth and Archives: A Theory of the Latin American Narrative (Cambridge University Press)
PRIMERA MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Ramón A. Gutiérrez, When Jesus Came the Corn Mothers Went Away (Stanford University Press)
SEGUNDA MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Nicholas Shumway, The Invention of Argentina(University of California Press
1991
LIBRO GANADOR: Paul Drake, The Money Doctor in the Andes: The Kemmerer Missions, 1923-1933
MENCIÓN HONORABLE: Regina Harrison, Signs, Songs, and Memory in the Andes: Translating Quechua Language and Culture (University of Texas Press, 1989)
1989
LIBRO GANADOR: Thomas Skidmore, The Politics of Military Rule In Brazil, 1964-1985