Awards
ALAA’s annual awards program recognizes excellence in Latinx and Latin American art scholarship. Awards are announced each year at the ALAA Business Meeting, held at the College Art Association Annual Conference. All winners are acknowledged in the ALAA newsletter and receive a monetary prize.
Award submissions are currently closed. Awards will be announced in February 2026. The next cycle of award submissions will open in Spring 2026. ALAA will be accepting applications for the following awards (see respective award pages for full details):
ALAA-Arvey Foundation Book Award
ALAA-Thoma Foundation Exhibition Catalogue Award
ALAA/LASA-VCS Afro-Latin American/Latinx Scholarship Prize
ALAA Article Award
The current cycle of awards will be announced in 2026.
**The ALAA Graduate Student Travel Award will begin accepting submissions in September 2025.
**The ALAA Dissertation Award is run on a biennial cycle. Submissions for the award will next open in 2026.
previous award recipients
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“The ALAA Graduate Travel Award supported my first-time participation in the CAA Annual Conference, where I presented in the session “The State of Central American Art History: Foundations and Future Directions” and attended ALAA events that enriched my knowledge of Latin American art. While in New York, I also visited the Hispanic Society of America and viewed a temporary exhibition featuring an early 19th-century Mexican folding screen, contemporaneous with the Guatemalan biombo I study in my dissertation, making the visit especially significant for my research.”
“Receiving the ALAA Dissertation Award is a true honor, placing my work among that of the scholars I admire, who have earned the same distinction. As I start my tenure-track position this Fall and continue to develop my dissertation into a monograph, this award will help me articulate the importance of my work to academic presses.”
“The ALAA Graduate Student Travel Award allowed me to travel to NYC to present at the CAA panel The Power of Body Transformations and receive critical feedback for a dissertation chapter I’m currently working on. Additionally, I was able to see archives pertaining to artists I am investigating at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) and at MoMA. ”