Past Recipients of the ALAA/LASA-VCS Afro Latin American/Afro-Latinx Scholarship Prize

2025

Tatiana Flores, “The We Within: Oceanic Imaginaries of Caribbean Art, “La Escuela_Journal, No. 1: ‘Hydrocommons Cultures: Art, Pedagogy, and Care Practices across the Americas,’ (eds) Lisa Blackmore and Alejandro Ponce de León (2024), 278–304.

Honorable Mention: Gigi Otalvaro-Hormillosa, “Michael Richards: Performance as Ritual and Black-Indigenous Haptic Visuality,” The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History, (eds) Tatiana Flores, Florencia San Martín, and Charlene Villaseñor-Black (2024), 544–554.

2024

Matthew Rarey, “Leave No Mark: Blackness and Inscription in the Inquisitorial Archive.” In Black Modernisms in the Transatlantic World, ed. Steven Nelson and Huey Copeland (Washington: National Gallery of Art and Yale University Press, 2023): 34-55.

Honorable Mention: Jennifer Jolly, “José María Morelos, Brownness, and the Visibility of Race in Nineteenth-Century Mexico,” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 39 (2) (2023): 302–342.

2023

Abigail Lapin-Dardashti, “Abstracted Resistance: Third-Worldism in Rubem Valentim’s Afro-Brazilian Symbolism, 1963-66.” Art Journal, 80:3 (2021), 56-77

Honorable Mention: Brendan Weaver, “La Estética Política, Espectadores Artísticos y la Arqueología de la Esclavitud: Las Haciendas Jesuitas de Nasca, Perú.” Revista de Arqueología Histórica Argentina y Latinoamericana, 15:2 (2021)

2022

Miguel Valerio, “Architects of their own humanity: race, devotion, and artistic agency in Afro-Brazilian confraternal churches in eighteenth-century Salvador and Ouro Preto,” Colonial Latin American Review 30, no. 2 (2021): 238-271.

Honorable Mention: Vincent Joos, “Echoes of Past Revolutions: Architecture, Memory, and Spectral Politics in the Historic Districts of Port-au-Prince,” Vibrant (Dossier Caribbean Routes: Ethnographic Experiences, Theoretical Challenges, and the Production of Knowledge) 17 (2020): 1-23.