ALAA Article Award*

Award submissions are currently closed. Awards will be announced in February 2026. The next cycle of award submissions will open in Spring 2026.

Competition for the 2026 ALAA Article Award (now closed):

Deadline: August 1, 2025

Essays may cover any aspect of Latin American/Latinx art, architecture, or visual culture, of any period from antiquity to the present, and may be written in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. Submissions must have been published between August 1, 2024 and July 31, 2025 in a peer-reviewed journal, edited volume, or exhibition catalogue.

Submissions should be sent as a pdf of the article, with the publication date clearly indicated, to the committee chair, Danielle Stewart, danielle.stewart@usu.edu.

The award consists a $500 honorarium and will be presented at the ALAA business meeting at the annual meeting of the College Art Association in February 2025. The name of the recipient will appear in the newsletters of both ALAA and CAA. This Award is generously funded by Edward J. Sullivan, Helen Gould Sheppard Professor of the History of Art at New York University.

Please note that, per the ALAA Awards Guidelines, articles may not be considered for more than one award category (e.g., the ALAA Article Award or the ALAA/LASA-VCS Afro Latin American/Afro-Latinx Scholarship Prize). It will be the responsibility of the author to determine which category best fits the submission.

Essays will be evaluated by a three-person committee of accomplished art historians, each with expertise in a wide geographical and temporal range. For consideration, authors should send their articles as a pdf to the Chair of the ALAA article award committee no later than August 1, 2025. Peer nominations will also be accepted.

Article Award Committee

Danielle Stewart (chair), danielle.stewart@usu.edu

Margaret Jackson, mars@unm.edu

Catherine Burdick, catherine.burdick@umayor.cl