2009

"Tension Under the Sun: Tourism And Identity In Cuba, 1945-2007," by John Gustavsen (now at Belén Preparatory Academy, Miami, FL)

2008

"Calusa Responses to the Spanish Missionary Enterprise in Post-Contact Florida" by
Carmen Lopez-Jordan

2007

"Neither Southern nor Northern: Miami, Florida and the Black Freedom Struggle in America's Tourist Paradise, 1896-1968" by Chanelle Rose (now Assistant Professor of History at Rowan University)

"The Science of Nation Building: A History of Geographic Sciences in Colombia, 1821-1921”
by Lina del Castillo (now Assistant Professor of History, Iowa State University)

“Bending Steel with Bare Hands: Modernity and the American Superhero in the Twentieth Century,”
by Aldo Regalado (now at Palmer Trinity School, Miami, Florida)

2006

“Making West Indians Unwelcome: Bananas, Race & the Immigrant Question in Izabal, Guatemala, 1900-1929.”
by Douglas W. Kraft (now at U.S. Department of State)

2005

”Bridging the Island: Brazilian Elite Views of Spanish America and Themselves 1880 – 1912”
by Ori Preuss (now Visiting Asistant Professor at Tel Aviv University, Israel)

2004

"The Mexican Revolution in Taxco de Alarcon, 1920-24: Hidden But Not Forgotten"
by Mercedes Vigon (now Coordinator, Latin American Master's Program, School of Journalism, Florida International University)

2003

"A Man Chosen by God: The Office of Archbishop in Novgorod, Russia, 1165-1478"
by Michael Paul (now Assistant Professor of History, Indiana-Purdue University, Indianapolis)

"A City of Children: Boys, Girls, Family, and State in Imperial Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
by Erica Windler (now Assistant Professor of History, Michigan State University)

2001

"Machado: A Historical Interpretation"
by Fritz Berggren

"Interwar Bolivia and Refugees from Nazism: A Unique Case"
by Mariana Conea (now Assistant Professor of History, Miami International University of Arts and Design)

"Pearl of the Paraiba No More: The Limits of Industrailization and Modernization in Brazil"
by John Crocitti (now Assistant Chair of History, San Diego Mesa College, California)

"Constructing the Brazilian Middle Class: São Paulo, 1930-45"
by Cristina Mehrtens (now Assistant Professor of History, Miami-Dade College, North Campus)

"Civilizational Designs: The Architecture of Colonialism in the Native Parishes of Potosi"
by Emma Sordo (Assistant Professor of History, Florida International University)

1999

"Electoral Mobilization and the Construction of a Civic Culture in Brazil, 1909-30"
by Quelia Quaresma (now Assistant Professor of History, Muskingum College, Ohio)

1998

"From the Republica Aristocratica to Pan Grande: Guillermo Billinghurst and Populist Politics in Early Twentieth-Century Peru"
by Jose Huiza (now Associate Professor of History, Universidad de Lima, Peru)

1997

"Charles A. Lindbergh and the Flight from Modernity: Environmental Thought in the AntiModern Tradition"
By Bryan Cooper (now Professor & Director / University Librarian, St. Thomas University, Miami Gardens, Florida)

Beyond Partisan Politics in Chile: The Carlos Ibanez Period and the politics of Ultranationalism, 1952-58"
by Maria Elisa Fernandez (now Assistant Professor of History, Universidad Catolica, Santiago de Chile)

"Transformations of Indigenous Authority and Identity in Resettlement Towns of Colonial Charcas, Alto Peru"
by Sarah Penry (now Assistant Professor of History, Fordham University)

"Self-Exiled in the Earthly Paradise: One Hundred Years of Solitude for the Jewish Mestizos of Iquitos"
by Ariel Segal (Assistant Professor of History, Lima, Peru)

"Discourse and Power: Native Americans and Spaniards Negotiate a New World in La Florida"
by Patricia Wickman (now Director, Department of Genealogy and Anthropology, Seminole Tribe of Florida)

1996

"The Years of Change: Urban Space and Urbanization in Bogota, 1820-1910"
by German Majia (now Professor of History, Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia)

1995

"Mexico in the Nineteenth Century through British and North American Travel Accounts"
by Maria Arbelaez (now Associate Professor of History, University of Nebraska at Omaha)

"Cleavages of the Cross: The Catholic Church from Left to Right in Contemporary Columbia"
by Michael LaRosa (now Associate Professor of History, Rhodes College)

1994

"Reformulating Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil: Army Enlisted Service and Penal Justice, 1864-1940"
by Peter Beattie (now Associate Professor of History, Michigan State University at East Lansing)

1993

"The Military and Politics in Modern Panama"
by Thomas Pearcy (now Associate Professor of History, Slippery Rock University)

1992

"The Virgin Mary and the Artist: Art in Colonial Peru"
by Carol Damian (now Associate Professor and Chair of Art History, Florida International University)

"If The People Are Sovereign, the People Must Be Fed: Agricultural Policies and Conflicts during the Bustamante y Rivero Administration, Peru, 1945-48"
by Carlos Monge (now Director of Environmental Programs, World Bank, Lima, Peru)