Tibesar Prize
           Best article in The Americas in the previous year.  The Conference on Latin American History in cooperation with The Americas established the Tibesar Prize in December 1990.

Winners:

2006
Camilla Townsend, “Sex, Servitude and Politics among the Pre-Conquest Nahuas as seen in the Cantares Mexicanos.” 62:3 (January 2005).

2005
Hal Langfur, “The Return of the Bandeira: Economic Calamity, Historical Memory, and Armed Expeditions to the Sertao in Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1750-1808,” 61:3 (January 2005). 
            Honorable Mention
Jeanette Favrot Peterson, “Creating the Virgin of Guadalupe: the Cloth, the Artist, and Sources in Sixteenth-Century New Spain,” 61:4 (April 2005). 
John F. Chuchiak IV, “In Servitio Dei: Fray Diego de Landa. The Franciscan Order and the Return of the Extirpation of Idolatry in the Colonial Diocese of Yucatán, 1573-1579,” 61:4 (April 2005).

2004
Marie Francois, "Cloth and Silver: Pawning and Material Life in Mexico City at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century," 60:3 (January 2004).

2003
B.J. Barickman, “Reading the 1835 Parish Censuses from Bahia: Citizenship, Kinship, Slavery, and Household in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil,” 59:3 (January 2003).

2002
James D. Riley, “Public Works and Local Elites: The Politics of Taxation in Tlaxcala, 1780-1810.” 58:3 (January 2002).
            Honorable Mention
Jeffrey Shumway, “’The Purity of My Blood Cannot Put Food on My Table’:  Changing Attitudes Toward Interracial Marriage in Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires,” 58:2 (October 2001).

2001 (co-winners)
Kris E. Lane, “Captivity and Redemption: Aspects of Slave Life in Early Colonial Quito and Popayán” 57:2 (October 2000).
Bianca Premo, “From the Pockets of Women: Gendering the Mita, Migration and Tribute in Colonial Chucuito, Peru” 57:1 (July 2000).

2000 (co-winners)
Robert Buffington and Pablo Piccato, (co-authors) “Tales of Two Women: The Narrative Construal of Porfirian Reality” 55:3 (Jan 1999).
Vera Blinn Reber, “Misery, Pain, and Death: Tuberculosis in Nineteenth Century Buenos Aires” 56:4 (April 2000).

1999
Francie Chassen-Lopez, “Maderismo or Mixtec Empire? Class and Ethnicity in the Mexican Revolution, Costa Chica of Oaxaca, 1911” 55:1 (July 1998).
            Honorable Mention:
Cynthia Radding, “Crosses, Caves, and Matachinis: Divergent Appropriations of Catholic Discourse in Northwestern New Spain” 55:2 (October 1998).

1998
Lila M. Caimari, “Whose Criminals Are These?  Church, State and Patronatos and the Rehabilitation of Female Convicts (Buenos Aires, 1890-1940)” 54:2 (October 1997).

1997
Jeffrey M. Pilcher, “Tamales or Timbales: Cuisine and the Formation of Mexican National Identity, 1821-1911”
53:2(October 1996).
            Honorable Mention:
Jeffrey Lesser, “(Re)creating ethnicity: Middle Eastern immigration to Brazil” 53:1 (July 1996).

1996
Victor M. Uribe  “Kill all the Lawyers: Lawyers and the Independence Movement in New Granada, 1809-1820” 52:2 (October 1995).
            Honorable Mentions:
Alejandro Cañeque ‘Theater or Power: Writing and Representing the Auto de Fé in Colonial Mexico” 52:3 (January 1996).
Linda Curcio-Nagy “Native Icon to City Protectress to Royal Patroness: Ritual, Political Symbolism and the Virgin of Remedies” 52:3 (January 1996).          

1995
B. J. Barickman, “’Tame Indians,' 'Wild Heathens,' and Settlers in Southern Bahia in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries” 51:3 (January 1995).

1994
John Garrigus, “Blue and Brown: Contraband Indigo and the Rise of a Free Colored Planter Class in French Saint- Domingue”50:2 (October 1993). 

1993
Muriel Nazzari, “Transition Toward Slavery: Changing Legal Practice Regarding Indians in Seventeenth-Century São Paulo” 49:2 (October 1992).

1992
Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, “Indigenous Communities and Water Rights in Colonial Puebla:  Patterns and Resistance” 48:4 (April 1992)
            Honorable Mention:
Linda Lewin, “Natural and Spurious Children in Brazilian Inheritance Law from Colony to Empire:  A Methodological Essay” 48:3 (January 1992).

1991
Joel Horowitz, “Industrialists and the Rise of Perón, 1943-1946: Some Implications for the Conceptualization of Populism”. 47:2 (October 1990).

Tibesar Prize Committees (Chair listed first):
2007    Hal Langfur, Jeanette Favort Peterson, John F. Chuchiak
2006    Marjorie Becker, Bryan McCann, Elizabeth Quay Hutchinson
2005    Ben Vinson III, Mark Cahill, Marie Francois
2004    Jeffrey Pilcher, Jeff Shumway, Bianca Premo
2003    Margaret Power, Pablo Piccato, Guiomar Dueñas
2002    Allan Kuethe, Sarah Chambers, John Green
2001    Thomas Cohen, Barbara Potthast, Peter F. Klaren
2000    Cheryl Martin, Thomas M. Klubock, Jeffrey Pilcher
1999    Allen Wells, Susan Deans-Smith,  James Green
1998    Robert M. Levine, Nancy Van Deusen, Joel Horowitz
1997    Vera Blinn Reber, Allan J. Kuethe, Robert M. Levine
1996    Heather Fowler-Salamini, Susan Ramirez, Ralph Della Cava
1995    Charles Hale, José Moya, Karen Powers
1994    Steven Topik, Dorothy Kerig, Todd Diacon
1993    Lowell Gudmundson, Cheryl Martin, Gary Miller
1992    Michael Conniff, Michael Burke, Joan Supplee
1991    Roberta M. Delson, Silvia M. Arrom, Steven C. Topik

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