LAGO Outstanding Faculty Member Service Award
Recipient: Anthony Pereira, Department of Political Science

Presented by: Beth Seymour, Latin Americanist Graduate Organization (LAGO)
For excellence in teaching and for promoting selflessly the interests and careers of Latin American Studies graduate students.

Simón Rodríguez Award for Best Undergraduate Teacher
Recipient: James D. Huck, Jr., Stone Center for Latin American Studies and Elizabeth Van Sant, Stone Center for Latin American Studies

Presented by: Eliza Wethey, President, Tulane University’s Undergraduate Latin America Studies Organization (TULASO)
For genuine interest in promoting undergraduate scholarship in Latin American Studies.

William J. Griffith Award for Outstanding Teaching Assistant in Latin American Studies
Recipient: Xela Korda

Presented by: Elizabeth Van Sant, Stone Center for Latin American Studies
William Griffith was a noted historian of Central America and served as director of Tulane’s Center for Latin American Studies. Griffith was the first Center Director to secure federal funding for the program and his role as Center Director influenced the development of the core introductory course in Latin American Studies, which our Teaching Assistants have since assumed primary responsibility for delivering.

LAGO Outstanding Graduate Student Service Award
Recipient: Amisha Sharma and Nomi Weiss-Laxer

Presented by: Beth Seymour, Latin Americanist Graduate Organization (LAGO)
For generously promoting the interests of Latin American Studies graduate students as a whole.

Senior Scholar Award Recognition
Recipients: Eliza Wethey

Presented by: Elizabeth Van Sant, Stone Center for Latin American Studies
For outstanding scholarship in Latin American Studies, achieving the standards of the Tulane Honors Program, and attaining the highest GPA as a Latin American Studies major.

The Stone Center Award for Best Campus-Wide Undergraduate Paper on a Latin American Topic
Recipient: Meghan Greeley, “Developing a Carbon Reforestation Project that Succeeds Locally and Globally: A Case Study of the Pancas Reforestation”

Presented by: James D. Huck, Jr., Stone Center for Latin American Studies

The Stone Center Award for Best Campus-Wide Graduate Paper on a Latin American Topic
Recipient: Richard Conway, “Measuring Cultural Interaction and Exchange: Counting and Concepts of Space in Cadastral Registers and Maps in Early Colonial Mexico, Sixteenth and Early Seventeeth Centuries”

Presented by: Elizabeth Boone, Department of Art History

Alberto Vázquez Award for Best Undergraduate Paper in the Humanities by a Latin American Studies Major/Minor
Recipient: Anne Ferris, “It Takes Two to Tango: The Dissemination of the Argentine Tango and the Promotion of a National Culture under Juan Perón”

Presented by: James D. Huck, Jr,, Stone Center for Latin American Studies
Alberto Vázquez was a member of the Spanish Department at Tulane who always demonstrated a firm commitment and dedication to undergraduate scholarship in the humanities. Professor Vázquez developed the primary humanities course in the Latin American Studies curriculum, currently named “Cultural Heritage of Latin America.”

M. Karen Bracken Award for Best Undergraduate Paper in the Social Sciences by a Latin American Studies Major/Minor
Recipient: Ruthie Meadows, “Chile: Institutional Constraints, Party Transformation, and Political Exclusion”

Presented by: Elizabeth Van Sant, Stone Center for Latin American Studies
M. Karen Bracken served as Assistant Director in the Latin American Studies Center for 13 years, advising undergraduate majors and helping to build the undergraduate program. Her training as a sociologist contributed to the development of the social science side of the interdisciplinary undergraduate degree program.

Donald Robertson Award for Best Graduate Paper in the Humanities
Recipient: Erika Hosselkus, “Corporeal Almanacs, Fate, and Medicine: Nahua and European Traditions”

Presented by: Elizabeth Boone, Department of Art History
Donald Robertson was a professor of Art History at Tulane for more than 25 years and authored the standard Mexican Manuscript Painting of the Early Colonial Period: The Metropolitan Schools. Professor Robertson served on numerous graduate student committees and motivated a generation of budding Art Historians and Ethnohistorians

Richard E. Greenleaf Award for Best Graduate Paper in the Social Sciences
Recipient: Amisha Sharma, “Transitional Justice and Truth Commissions: A Survey, A Critique, and Some Directions for Future Research”

Presented by: Anthony Pereira, Department of Political Science
Richard E. Greenleaf served as the Director of the Center for Latin American Studies from the late 1960s until his retirement in 1997. Not only are his own scholarly accomplishments impressive and well-known, but he has directed more than 20 doctoral theses and has motivated the scholarly production and research of countless graduate students.