Judy Ewell Award for Best Publication on Women’s History (formerly Ligia Parra Jahn Award)
The Judy Ewell Award is presented for the best publication (book or article) on women’s history or written by a woman that originated as an RMCLAS presentation and was published in 2026. Due to global shipping challenges, RMCLAS will accept book nominations in either physical or digital (e-book/PDF) formats. If both are available, our readers would appreciate access to both. To be eligible, candidates must be members for two of the last three years, including the current year.
Deadline: TBD
Please send copies of the nominated work to:
TBD
Previous Award Winners:
2026, Stephanie Mitchell, Carthage College. “Out from the Shadows: Gendered Archetypes and the Landscape of History.” Women’s History Review, 35(2): 345-369.
2025, Susan Kellogg, A Concise History of the Aztecs. Cambridge University Press. 2024.
2024, Elizabeth O’Brien, Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-1940, University of North Carolina Press, 2023
2023, Juandrea M. Bates, Winona State University, “Unaccompanied Minors and Fraudulent Fathers: Civil Law in the Unmaking of Immigrant Family in Buenos Aires, 1869–1920,” Hispanic American Historical Review, (2022) 102 (1): 95–126
2022, Vanessa de Veritch Woodside, Ripped Apart: Unsettling Narratives of Transnational Migration, Texas Tech University Press, 2021
2021, Patricia Harms, Ladina Social Activism in Guatemala City, 1871-1954, University of New Mexico Press
2020, Natalia Milanesio, ¡Destape! Sex, Democracy, and Freedom in Postdictatorial Argentina, University of Pittsburgh Press
Honorable Mention, Sonia Lipsett-Rivera. The Origins of Macho: Men and Masculinity in Colonial Mexico, University of New Mexico Press
2019, Rachel Corr, Interwoven: Andean Lives in Colonial Ecuador’s Textile Economy, University of Arizona Press
2016 Ann Twinam, Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies
2015 Michelle McKinley, “Illicit Intimacies: Virtuous Concubinage in Colonial Lima,” Journal of Family History 39:3 (July 2014), 204-221.
2014 Dana Velasco Murillo, “Laboring Above Ground: Indigenous Women in New Spain’s Silver-Mining District, Zacatecas, Mexico, 1620-1770,” The Hispanic American Historical Review 93:1 (2013), 3-32.
2013 Ageeth Sluis, “Projecting Pornography and Mapping Modernity in Mexico City,” Journal of Urban History, May 2012.
2012 Yanna Yannakakis, “Allies or Servants? The Journey of Indian Conquistadors in the Lienzo of Analco,” Ethnohistory 58:4 (Fall 2011), 653-682.
2011 Christina Bueno, “Forjando Patrimonio: The Making of Archaeological Patrimony in Porfirian Mexico,” The Hispanic American Historical Review 90, no. 2 (May 2010): 215-246.
2008 Karen Graubart, With Our Labor and Sweat: Indigenous Women and the Formation of Colonial Society in Peru, 1550-1700, Stanford University Press