Winner: William B. Taylor, Southern Methodist Univ.

Magistrates of the Sacred, Priests and Parishoners in Eighteenth Century Mexico

(Stanford University Press)

Honorable Mention(s): Thomas F. O'Brien, University of Houston

The Revolutionary Mission: American Enterprise in Latin America, 1900-1945

(Cambridge University Press)

Susan Elizabeth Ramirez, DePaul University

The World Upside Down: Cross-Cultural Contact and Conflict in Sixteenth-Century Peru

(Stanford University Press)

Winner: Karen Vieira Powers, Northern Arizona University

Andean Journeys: Migration, Ethnogensis, and the State in Colonial Quito

(New Mexico Press)

Honorable Mention: Susan Kellogg, University of Houston

Law and Transformation of Aztec Culture: 1500 -1700

(Oklahoma Press)

Winner: Jeffrey M. Pilcher, The Citadel

"Tamales or Timbales: Cuisine and the Formation of Mexican National Identity,

1821-1911"

The Americas, Oct. 1996

Honorable Mention: Jeffrey Lesser, Connetticut College

"(Re)creating Ethnicity: Middle Eastern Immigration to Brazil" The Americas, July 1996

Winner: John Lynch, University of London

Winner: Thomas Miller Klubock, Ohio State University

"Working-Class Masculinity, Middle Class Morality, and Labor Politics in the

Chilean Copper Mines."

Journal of Social History 30:2 Winter, 1996, pp.435-463

Honorable Mention: Michael J. Schroeder, University of Michigan - Flint

"Horse Thieves to Rebels to Dogs: Political Gang Violence and the State in the

Western Segovias, Nicaragua, in the Time of the Sandino, 1926-1934"

JLAS (28), 1996, pp. 383-434

Winner: Peter M. Beattie, Michigan State University

Winner(s): Jeffrey Voris, Emory University

The Development of 16th century Cuban Society

Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Stanford University

"Empire and Anti-Slavery: Spain, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, 1833-1898."