Adrian Bantjes Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper
This award (in honor of Adrian Bantjes) honors the best graduate student presentation at the annual
meeting. $200.00 award. Please submit via email in pdf format. Deadline: February 15, 2021.
Amanda Lopez, Chair
St. Xavier University
alopez@sxu.edu
Kris Lane
Tulane University
klane1@tulane.edu
Chad McCutchen
Minnesota State University, Mankato
chad.mccutchen@mnsu.edu
Previous Award Winners
2021, Jian Gao, “Political Mobilizations and Cultural Spaces: Transnational Chinese Associations in Mexico, 1922-1945.”
2019 Frank Lacopo, “Linguistic Appropriation, the Society of Jesus, and Peru in the World of Catholic Renewal: Localism and Globalism in Transatlantic Missionary Strategy, 1543-1683”
2016 Jennifer C. González, Michigan State University
“Marriage and Sex in Colonial New Mexico, 1681-1730: The Deflowerment Cases”
2015 James Mestaz, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Their Technology, Our Way: Mayo Uses of Fuerte River”
2014 Julia Ogden, University of Texas
“Sodomy, Masculinity and Victimized Adolescents in Buenos Aires, 1853-1912”
2013 Michael D. Kirkpatrick, University of Saskatchewan
“Stasis and the Culture of Movement in Liberal Guatemala City”
2012 Anna Alexander, University of Arizona
“Calculated Responses to Gut-Wrenching Tragedy: Technological Innovation and Fire Safety in Mexico City, 1860-1910”
