PLAS honors compelling undergraduate scholarship, supporting two awards that recognize stellar thesis work. The Stanley J. Stein Senior Thesis Prize is awarded to the best thesis on a Latin American topic. The Kenneth Maxwell Senior Thesis Prize is awarded for the best thesis related to Brazil.
Prize Nominees
Robert Franklin Britt, Spanish and Portuguese
Investigating Health Access, Experience, and Outcome of Latin American Immigrants in Trenton, New Jersey through an Intersectional Lens
Toby Fishman Janowitz, School of Public and International Affairs
“A Tale of Two Nations”; A Comparative Analysis of Divergence between Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Alaina Joby, School of Public and International Affairs
LA ISLA DEL ENCANTO: THE ISLAND OF ENCHANTMENT OR THE ISLAND FORGOTTEN? An Investigation Into “La Reforma’s” Impact on the Quality of Health Among Elderly Populations in Puerto Rico
Isabel Byers Kingston, Comparative Literature
In Search of “Bodies of Rhetoric”: Diamela Eltit’s “Lumpérica” and the Legacy of Chile’s Disappeared
Clara Jane McNatt, Anthropology
ENTRE DOS: Reflections on the Tango Embrace
Ana Lucia Palacios, Anthropology
“Siendo Solidarias Alcanzaremos la Prosperidad”: Belonging, Empowerment, and Prosperity in a Colombian Ecovillage
Michael Jacob Salama, History
FLUID IDENTITIES: THE SUBALTERN POLITICAL HYDROLOGY OF THE URUS OF LAKE POOPÓ
Myla Eleanor Isenberg Wailoo, African American Studies
The Greatest Technologies are Ours: Carrying the Legacy of Quilombola Culture and Life through Contemporary Afrofuturist Brazilian Art
2024 Stanley J. Stein Senior Thesis Prize
This prize is awarded by PLAS each year to the student who writes the best senior thesis on a Latin American-related topic.
Michael Jacob Salama
Department of History
FLUID IDENTITIES: THE SUBALTERN POLITICAL HYDROLOGY OF THE URUS OF LAKE POOPÓ
Thesis Adviser:
Isadora Moura Mota, Assistant Professor of History
2024 Kenneth Maxwell Senior Thesis Prize
This prize is awarded by PLAS on behalf of the Firestone Library to the student who writes the best senior thesis related to Brazil.
Myla Eleanor Isenberg Wailoo
Department of African American Studies
The Greatest Technologies are Ours: Carrying the Legacy of Quilombola Culture and Life through Contemporary Afrofuturist Brazilian Art
Thesis Adviser:
Wallace Best, Professor of Religion and African American Studies