Barrett Prize for Best Ph.D. Dissertation on
Latin America or the Caribbean

The Barrett Prize ($1500) is an annual award presented to the UM doctoral student who has produced the best Ph.D. dissertation on a Latin American/Caribbean topic in the previous calendar year (2009).

Congratulations to our co-winners of the Barrett Prize! Myriam Mompoint, Symbolic Exchanges: Haiti, Brazil, and the Ethnopoetics of Identity and Sheri Harrison, Nationalism and Self-Representation: Negotiating Sovereignty in Jamaican Cultural Landscapes.

Dissertations defended during the 2009 calendar year in the Social Sciences or Humanities are eligible for nomination by faculty members.

Deadline: Monday March 30, 2010.

Please deliver your nominations and copies of the dissertations to:

Tiffany Madera
Assistant Director
Center for Latin American Studies
Memorial 125B
LC 2032