Past Recipients of the ALAA Article Award

2025

Savannah Esquivel, “Haunted Monasteries: Troubling Indigenous Erasure in Early Colonial Mexican Architecture.” Arts 13, no. 61. (2024) https://doi.org/10.3390/arts13020061

Honorable Mentions:

Lucy O’Sullivan, “Martyrdom in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: The Photograph as Testimony and Trace in Mexico’s Cristero War (1926–29),” Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, Vol. 6, Number 1 (2024), 1–19.

Trenton Barnes, “Blood, Obsidian, and the Teotihuacan Cult of the Mirror,” Ancient Mesoamerica (2024), 1–21

2024

Marisol Villela Balderrama, “Doves and Machetes: Rina Lazo’s Portable Mural Venceremos (1959) in Guatemala, North Korea and Beyond,” Art History Vol. 45, issue 5 (November 2022): 1038–1057.

2023
Aaron Hyman and Dana Leibsohn, “Lost and Found at Sea, or a Shipwreck’s Art History.” West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture (November 2021): 43-74.

2022
Juanita Solano Roa, “Melodrama’s Fictional System: Fernell Franco’s Photography and the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema,” History of Photography 44 (May 2021): 172-191.

2021
Lisa Trever, “A Moche Riddle in Clay: Object Knowledge and Art World in Ancient Peru,” Art Bulletin 101, no. 4 (2019): 18-38.

2020
Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa, “Metamorphic and Sensuous Brown Bodies: Queer Latina/x Visual Performance Cultures in San Francisco Strip clubs, 1960s-1970s.”  Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture. 1.2 (April 2019): pp. 58-73.

2019
Ananda Cohen-Aponte, “Decolonizing the Global Renaissance: A View from the Andes,” in The Globalization of Renaissance Art: A Critical Review, ed. Daniel Savoy (Leiden: Brill, 2017)