Competition for the 2026 ALAA Article Award

Deadline: August 1, 2025

Essays may cover any aspect of Latin American/Latinx art, architecture, or visual culture, of any period from antiquity to the present, and may be written in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. Submissions must have been published between August 1, 2024 and July 31, 2025 in a peer-reviewed journal, edited volume, or exhibition catalogue.

Submissions should be sent as a pdf of the article, with the publication date clearly indicated, to the committee chair, Danielle Stewart, [email protected].

The award consists a $500 honorarium and will be presented at the ALAA business meeting at the annual meeting of the College Art Association in February 2025. The name of the recipient will appear in the newsletters of both ALAA and CAA. This Award is generously funded by Edward J. Sullivan, Helen Gould Sheppard Professor of the History of Art at New York University.

Please note that, per the ALAA Awards Guidelines, articles may not be considered for more than one award category (e.g., the ALAA Article Award or the ALAA/LASA-VCS Afro Latin American/Afro-Latinx Scholarship Prize). It will be the responsibility of the author to determine which category best fits the submission.

Essays will be evaluated by a three-person committee of accomplished art historians, each with expertise in a wide geographical and temporal range. For consideration, authors should send their articles as a pdf to the Chair of the ALAA article award committee no later than August 1, 2025. Peer nominations will also be accepted.

Article Award Committee

Danielle Stewart (chair), [email protected]

Margaret Jackson, [email protected]

Catherine Burdick, [email protected]

 

2025 ALAA Article Award Winner

 

 

 

 

 

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 ALAA Article Award Winner

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.

 

Past ALAA Article Award Recipients