We hope you enjoy this virtual space showcasing our new authors, award-winning books, and highlights from the last year of Latin American Studies at SUP.
New Books and New SUP Authors
Announcing new books, published in the last year. We’re offering 30% off select SUP Latin American Studies titles .
To use the discount select titles from our virtual exhibit », and enter coupon code S23XLASA-FM at checkout.
Recent Award Winners
Indigenous Dispossession: Housing and Maya Indebtedness in Mexico »
BIANET CASTELLANOS
- Winner of the 2021 Edward M. Bruner Prize, sponsored by the Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group (ATIG).
- Winner of the 2022 Gregory Bateson Book Prize, sponsored by the Society for Cultural Anthropology.
- Winner of the 2022 Arthur J. Rubel Book Prize, sponsored by the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA).
Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis »
EVE DARIAN-SMITH
- Winner of the 2022 Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award, sponsored by the Association for Humanist Sociology.
Taxis vs. Uber: Courts, Markets, and Technology in Buenos Aires »
JUAN MANUEL DEL NIDO
- Winner of the 2022 Carol R. Ember Book Prize, sponsored by the Society for Anthropological Sciences.
Oaxaca Resurgent: Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico »
A.S. DILLINGHAM
- Winner of the 2022 Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize, sponsored by the American Society for Ethnohistory.
- Winner of the 2023 The Maria Elena Martinez Prize, sponsored by the Conference on Latin American History.
Laboring for Justice: The Fight Against Wage Theft in an American City »
REBECCA BERKE GALEMBA
- Rebecca Galemba recieved the 2022 Setha M. Low Engaged Anthropology Award, sponsored by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), for the Just Wages Project, focused on wage theft research and advocacy.
The Engaged Scholar: Expanding the Impact of Academic Research in Today’s World »
ANDREW J. HOFFMAN
- Distinguished Winner of the the 2022 Responsible Research in Management Award, sponsored by the Academy of Management Fellows and co-sponsored by Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM).
How to Live at the End of the World: Theory, Art, and Politics for the Anthropocene »
TRAVIS HOLLOWAY
- Winner of the 2023 Research Recognition Award, sponsored by the Academic Senate and the Office of the Provost, Pratt Institute.
- Winner of the 2023 Outstanding Scholarly Publication Award, sponsored by the SUNY Farmingdale State College.
Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora »
DEVI MAYS
- Winner of the 2020 National Jewish Book Awards, Sephardic Culture category, sponsored by the Jewish Book Council.
- Winner of the 2021 Dorothy Rosenberg Prize, sponsored by the American Historical Association (AHA).
- Winner of the 2021 Jordan Schnitzer Prize in the category of Modern Jewish History and Culture: Africa, Americas, Asia, and Oceania; sponsored by the Association of Jewish Studies (AJS).
- Winner of the 2021 Alixa Naff Prize in Migration Studies, sponsored by the Moise Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies.
Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope »
VICTORIA REYES
- Honorable Mention for the 2022 Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award, sponsored by the Association for Humanist Sociology.
Contact Strategies: Histories of Native Autonomy in Brazil »
HEATHER F. ROLLER
- Winner of the 2022 Sérgio Buarque de Holanda Prize for the Best Book in Social Sciences, sponsored by the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Brazil Section.
- Winner of the 2022 Friedrich Katz Prize, sponsored by the American Historical Association (AHA).
- 2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil »
CASSIA ROTH
- Winner of the 2021 Murdo J. MacLeod Book Prize, sponsored by the Southern Historical Association, Latin American and Caribbean Section.
- Winner of the 2021 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by the American Library Association.
Lawful Sins: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico »
ELYSE ONA SINGER
- Honorable Mention for the 2022 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize, sponsored by the Society for Medical Anthropology.
Paletó and Me: Memories of My Indigenous Father »
APARECIDA VILAÇA
- Gold Medal in the 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) - Creative Non-fiction Category.
LASA Resources
We welcome inquiries from prospective authors. If you have a book proposal in mind, contact Margo Irvin, History: Marcela Maxfield, Sociology and Law; Dan LoPreto, Political Science; or Dylan Kyung-lim White, Anthropology
LASA 2023 Virtual Annual Meeting »
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