Susan M. Deeds Article Award
The Susan M. Deeds Article Award recognizes the most outstanding journal article or book chapter published in the preceding calendar year (2026). To be eligible, candidates must have held membership for two of the last three years, including the current year. An exception is made for graduate students who joined RMCLAS in their final year of study and published the work the following year. Please submit all entries via email in PDF format.
Deadline: TBD
Please email PDF submissions of nominated articles to committee members:
TBD
Previous Award Winners
2026, Peter Soland. “El Santo vs. La Bomba. La tecnología nuclear en la cultura popular y el discurso público durante los inicios de la Guerra Fría.” In Adriana Corral Bustos and Jennifer L. Jenkins, eds., Historia publica: cultura material e inmaterial, 297-335. Colegio de San Luis, 2025.
Honorable Mention – Brittany Erwin, “‘An Unthinkable Novelty’: Ceremonies, Contests for Power, and the Creation of the Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata.” Colonial Latin American Review 34(1): 1-24.
2025, Julia Ogden. “The Age of Malice”: Estupro, Consent,and the Foundations of Victim Blaming in the Criminal Courts of Buenos Aires, 1853–1878” Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (4): 615–645.
Honorary Mention – Chad McCutchen.“Free Though They Are Yanaconas” Spanish Frontier Policy and the Conflict over Indigenous Labor in the Audiencia of Charcas.” in Overlooked Places and Peoples Indigenous and African Resistance in Colonial Spanish America, 1500-1800. Edited By Dana Velasco Murillo, Robert C. Schwaller Routledge.
2024, Rocío Gomez, Virginia Commonwealth University, “Mining the Sky: José Árbol y Bonilla, Zacatecas Meteorites, and the Circulation of Scientific Knowledge” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos (2023) 39, no. 3: 401–426.
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
Honorable Mention – Olga González-Silen, Independent Scholar, “Judging Freedom and Loyalty in Venezuela during the War of Spanish Independence,” Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (1): 31–59
2022, Christina Bueno, Northern Illinois University, “The Tangled Journey of the Cross of Palenque” in Museum Matters: Making and Unmaking Mexico’s National Collections edited by Miruna Achim, Susan Deans-Smith, Sandra Tozental. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2021, pp. 111-134.
Honorable Mention – Mark Lentz, Utah Valley University for “Mediating at the Margins: Yucatan’s Interpreters in Unconquered Lands, 1600-1697,” Historia Crítica, no. 80, pp. 11-33 2021.
2021, Robert Franco, “Transgressing Che: Irina Layevska Echeverría Gaitán, Disability Politics, and Transgendering the New Man in Mexico, 1964-2001,” Radical History Review 136 (January 2020).
2020, Vanessa Freije, “Speaking of Sterilization: Rumors, the Urban Poor and the Public Sphere in Greater Mexico City,”HAHR 99: 2(2019).
Honorable Mention – Jian Gao, “Restoring the Chinese Voice during Mexican Sinophobia, 1919-1934,” The Latin Americanist 63: 1(March 2019).
2019, Steven Hyland, “The Syrian-Ottoman Home Front in Buenos Aires and Rosario during the First World War,” Journal of Migration History 4(1), 2019.
2017, Mark W. Lentz, Utah Valley University