AILASA AWARDS
AILASA 2023 AWARD WINNERS
Congratulations to the winners of the AILASA Awards 2023! The committees' discussions were long and the decisions were not easy. The calibre of the applicants’ work shows vibrancy of research for Iberian and Latin American scholarship in Australia and New Zealand.
Best Honours Dissertation
The 2023 AILASA Award for Best Honours Dissertation is awarded to Alexis Castro Robles for the thesis 'Navigating the inclusion-exclusion paradox of Indigenous-state relations: The paths from neoliberal multiculturalism to plurinationalism in Bolivia and Chile'. The committee also gave an Honourable Mention to Brooke Szucs for the thesis 'El imaginario de los nikkei en Perú'.
Best PhD Thesis
The 2023 AILASA Award for Best PhD Thesis is awarded to Carla Tapia Parada for the thesis 'Public Activism and Pedagogical Work: Teachers' Struggles for Educational Justice in Chile'. The committee also gave an Honourable Mention to Bernardo Dewey for the thesis ' In Search of Home: Protracted Homing Precarity and the Exchange of Care among Argentine Temporary Migrants in Australia'
Most Outstanding Article by an Early Career Researcher
The 2023 AILASA Award for Most Outstanding Article by an Early Career Researcher is awarded to Fabricio Tocco for the article 'Specters in the Paraguayan Woods: The Grammar of Secrecy in Hugo Giménez’s Matar a un muerto (2019)' in the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research. The committee also gave an Honourable Mention to Beatriz Carbajal-Carrera for the article 'Hierarchies among Intertextual References: Reading Reggaeton Ilustrado’s Digital Humour through the Colonial Matrix of Power' in Critical Discourse Studies.
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: 2023 AILASA PRIZES
The call for nominations for the 2023 AILASA prizes is now closed and will reopen late 2024.
We are opening applications for three awards this year:
1. Best Honours Dissertation (conferred in late 2022 or 2023)
2. Best PhD Thesis (conferred in late 2022 or 2023)
3. Most outstanding Article by Early Career Researcher (published in 2023)
4. Lifetime contribution
The individual guidelines for each prize are available in the files attached (see links below).
All submissions are electronic via ailasa@ailasa.org.
Authors must be current members of AILASA to be eligible.
Kind regards,
AILASA Executive Committee
Nomination guidelines 2023:
3. Most Outstanding Article by Early Career Researcher