2010 Jane's Essay Prize in Latin American and Latino StudiesThe Latin American and Latino Studies Program at Brandeis University is pleased to announce its annual competition for the Jane's Essay Prize for the best undergraduate paper in Latin American and Latino Studies. The $500 prize will be awarded for the best paper written between April 21, 2009 and April 25, 2010 in any area of Latin American, Caribbean, or Latino studies. Any substantial research paper may be submitted including term papers, two-term senior theses, or one-semester senior essays. |
"The First Mulattoes of Las Esmeraldas" (1599) Adrian Sanchez Gallque. Madrid Museo de las Americas. Taken from Bayon, Damian and Murillo Marx. History of South American Colonial Art and Architecture. New York: Rizzoli 1989. |
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The competition is open to undergraduates in all concentrations and classes at Brandeis University. Submissions are limited to one paper per student. The paper may be written in English or Spanish.
A committee of faculty members in the Latin American and Latino Studies Program will select the winner of the competition. The award will be based on
- quality of the research
- originality of the analysis
- clarity of the writing
The deadline is April 26 at 9:00 a.m. Papers written after April 20, 2009 or during Fall 2009 may be submitted any time before the deadline; early submission of papers is appreciated. Professors may also submit their students' papers for the competition.
Submissions should be sent to Marilyn Brooks, Latin American and Latino Studies Program, MS 036. If you wish to bring the paper in person and the Latin American and Latino Studies office (Olin-Sang 218) is closed, please leave it at the History office (Olin-Sang 215). Papers will not be accepted by e-mail or fax and should not be bound.
For further information, please contact Marilyn Brooks, ext. 62293, or e-mail her at mbrooks@brandeis.edu.
Recipients of Jane's Essay Prize
2009 - Juliana Buenaventura '09 - "An Assessment of President Alvaro Uribe's Counterinsurgency Measures Against the FARC in Colombia."
2008 - Katie Kelly-Hankin '08 - "Mujeres en la Lucha: El papel de las mujeres en la resistencia contra la mineria del cobre en la zona de Intag."
2008 Prize - Hannah Ramer '08 - "Decididos luchar: El impacto en la comunidad de confrontaciones entre una transnacional minera y comunidades locales."
2007 Prize - Pesha Black '07 - "'Growing in the Spirit'": Framing the Pentecostal Expansion in Managua, Nicaragua."
2006 Prize - Loretta Stein '06 - "Determinants of Disease: An Analysis of Health and Healthcare in the Dominican Republic."
2005 Prize - Jonathan Landesman '05 - "The Transformation of Nicaraguan Guerilla Leaders into Democratic Political Actors."
2004 Prize - Paul Adler '04 - "Fighting the Revolution Through Other Means: Guatemalan Leftist Political Parties in the Post-War Period."
2003 Prize - Sabrina Assayag '03 - "The Reality of Immigration: The Brazilian Community in Massachusetts."
2002 Prize - Sarah Katel '02 - "The United States and the Trujillo Regime."
2001 Prize - Tova Neugut '01 - "Grenada 'As One People, One Family' Healing Rifts of October 1983."
2000 Prize - Seth Passo '01 - "The Importance of Jews and Conversos in the History of Colonial Brazil through the Dutch Conquest."
1999 Prize - Ben Singerman '99 - "The Amazon Worlds Story."
1998 Prize - Susan Francis '99 - "Factores culturales y sociales que contribuyen a la prevalencia del parasitismo en Los Martires de Santiago de Los Caballeros, Republica Dominicana."
1997 Prize - Matthew Freeman '97 - "Tragedy at Tlatelolco"
1996 Prize - Wendy Burk '97 - "Development and the Drug Trade in Colombia."
1995 Prize - Odessa Deffenbaugh '95 - "Breaking Down the Doors of Docility: Women Workers and Corporate Impunity on the U.S.-Mexican Border."
1994 Prize - David Lawrence '94 - "Coping with 1988: Carlos Salinas and the Battle for Legitimacy."