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Monica Orozco Prize

Monica Orozco
Monica Orozco

Dr. Monica Orozco, who earned her PhD in Latin American history from UCSB in 1999, is Director of the Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library. She established this award in 2011 to recognize the best paper on a historical subject in Latin American history produced by a graduate student in History or Latin American and Iberian Studies with a strong preference for pre-20th century Latin American topics.

Recipients:

2023

Amy Houser, “Contentious Memories: Remembering, Reconciling, and Forgetting the Recent Past in Chile
and Peru” 

Chris McQuilkin, “‘A National Calamity’: Locust
Eradication Efforts in Argentina, ca. 1890-1920″

2022
Maria del Pilar Ramirez Restrepo, “What is happening in Colombia?”

2021
No Award

2020

Andreina Soto Segura, From Marronage to Reducción: Colonial Policies and Local Projects in Early Modern Venezuela

Mario Tumen, “Decolonizing Taxation: Indigenous Peasants and the Civil War of 1895 in Peru”

2019
No Award

2018
Mario Tumen, “Decolonizing Taxation: Indigenous Peasants and the Civil War of 1895 in Peru”

2017
Kevin Breu, “The AIDs Crisis in Brazil, Argentina, Haiti and Cuba, Differing Approaches Between 1980 and 2000.

2016
Doug Genens, “A Comparative Study of 19th-century Independence Struggles in Haiti, Brazil, and Cuba.”

2015
No Award

2014
Cheryl Frei, “Representing Argentina’s Invisible Indigenous: Commemorations, Collective Memory, and the Power of Public Space.”