Senior Thesis Prizes

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.

Class of 2023

2023 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.

Sarah Brown

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Anthropology
‘Te Abre un Mundo’: A World Opens to You’ In and Out of the
Clinical Gaze In Tijuana Migrant Healthcare

Thesis Adviser: João Biehl

Liam G. Seeley

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Spanish and Portuguese
Vegetal Cartographies: Plant Aesthetics for After the End 
Thesis Advisers: Rachel Price & Javier Guerrero


2023 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.

Nicole R. Martin

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Civil and Environmental Engineering
On Sunken Land: The Environmental and Social Impacts of the Itaipu Hydroelectric Dam in Brazil
Thesis Adviser: Reed Maxwell