Michael C. Meyer for Best Book on Mexican History in a Five-Year Period
This prize is awarded to the outstanding book published by a member of the association in the previous 5 calendar years on the subject of Mexican history. To be eligible, candidates must be members for two out of three years including the present year. Deadline: TBD.
Previous Award Winners
2023, Diana J. Montaño, Washington University, St. Louis, Electrifying Mexico: Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City (Texas, 2021)
Honorable mention Donald F. Stevens, Drexel University, Mexico in the Time of Cholera (New Mexico, 2019)
2018 Christina M. Bueno, Northeastern Illinois University
The Pursuit of Ruins: Archaeology, History, and the Making of Modern Mexico
2013 Frances L. Ramos, University of Southern Florida
Identity, Ritual, and Power in Colonial Puebla. (University of Arizona Press, 2012)
Special Commendation: William H. Beezley, University of Arizona
A Companion to Mexican History and Culture. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
2009 John Mason Hart, University of Houston
Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico Since the Civil War. (University of California Press, 2002)
2005 Friedrich E. Schuler, Portland State University
Mexico between Hitler and Roosevelt: Mexican Foreign Relations in the Age of Lázaro Cárdenas, 1934-1940. (UNM Press, 1998)