Franklin Pease G.Y. Prize

The Franklin Pease Memorial Prize is given to the most outstanding essay published in CLAR over a period of two years. It was created in 2000 in memory of Peruvian historian Franklin Pease G. Y. (1939 – 1999) a founding member of the journal with many contributions to the field. A committee from the journal’s Advisory Board selects a winner and an honorable mention by looking at original and careful research, fresh perspectives, cross-disciplinary appeal, clarity of exposition, and new critical directions.

The next award will be given for articles published in CLAR in 2023 and 2024.

 2021-2022

Winner: Larissa Brewer-García, “The Composite pardo of Seventeenth-century Lima: Blackness, Whiteness, and Creole Self-Fashioning in the Earliest Portraits of Martín de Porres.”

(CLAR 30, no.2, pp. 272-304)

Honorable Mention: Andrew Konove, “In Search of a Decent Coin: The Value of Small Change in Bourbon Spanish America.”

(CLAR 30, no.4, pp. 589-610)

2019-2020

Winner: Stephanie Porras, “Locating Hispano-Philippine Ivories” (CLAR 2020, Vol. 29, NO. 2, pp. 256-291)

Honorable Mention: Alfonso Jesús Heredia López, “Los comerciantes a Indias y la Casa de la Contratación: vínculos y redes (1618-1644)” (CLAR 2019, Vol. 28, NO. 4, pp 514-537)

2017-2018

Winner: Elizabeth Boone, “Seeking Indianness:  Christoph Weiditz, the Aztecs and Feathered Amerindians” (Vol. 26, No. 1).

Honorable Mention: Stuart M. McManus and Dana Leibsohn, “Eloquence and Ethnohistory:  Indigenous Loyalty and the Making of a Tagalog Letrado” (CLAR vol. 27, no. 4, December 2018)

Jorge Díaz Ceballos, “New World Civitas, Contested Jurisdictions, and Inter-cultural Conversation in the Construction of the Spanish Monarchy” (CLAR vol. 27, no. 1, March 2018).

2015-2016

Winner:  Shawn Michael Austin, “Guaraní Kinship and the Encomienda Community in Colonial Paraguay, Sixteenth & Early Seventeenth Centuries” (CLAR vol, 24, no. 4, December 2015). 

Honorable mention:  Barbara E. Mundy and Aaron M. Hyman, “Out of the Shadows of Vasari:  Towards a New Model of the ‘Artist’ in Colonial Latin America” (CLAR vol. 24, no. 3, September 2015).

2013-2014 

Winner:  Cécile Fremont, “Dancing for the King of the Congo:  From Early-Modern Central Africa to Slavery-Era Brazil” (CLAR vol. 22, no. 2, August 2013). 

Honorable Mention:  Ananda Cohen Suárez, “Painting Andean Liminalities at the Church of Andahuaylillas, Cuzco, Peru” (CLAR vol. 22, no. 3, December 2013).

2011-2012 

Winner:  Xabier Lamikiz, “Flotistas en la Nueva España:  diseminación espacial y negocios de los intermediarios del comercio transatlántico” (CLAR vol. 20, no. 1, April 2011). 

Honorable mention:  David T. Garrett, “‘En lo remoto de estos reynos’:  Distance, Jurisdiction and Royal Government in Late Colonial Hapsburg Cusco” (CLAR vol. 21, no. 1, April 2012).

2009-2010 

Winner:  Juan Carlos Estenssoro F., “Autorretrato del conquistador como vencido o la invención del Perú:  la aparición del inca y de sus atributos políticos en las representaciones plásticas, 1526-1528” (CLAR vol. 19, no. 1, April 2010). 

Honorable mention:  Gabriela Ramos, “Los tejidos y la sociedad colonial andina” (CLAR vol. 19, no. 1, April 2010).

2007-2008 

Winner:  Susan E. Ramírez, “To Serve God and King:  The Origins of Public Schools for Native Children in Eighteenth-Century Northern Peru” (CLAR vol. 17, no. 1, June 2008). 

Honorable mention:  José R. Jouve Martín, “Public Ceremonies and Mulatto Identity in Viceregal Lima: A Colonial Reenactment of the Fall of Troy (1631)” (CLAR vol. 16, no. 2, December 2007).

2005-2006 

Winner:  Daniela Bleichmar  “Painting as Exploration:  Visualizing Nature in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Science” (CLAR vol. 15, no. 1, June 2006). 

Honorable Mention:  Rosalba Piazza, “Los Procesos de Yanhuitlán:  algunas nuevas preguntas”  (CLAR vol. 14, no. 2, December 2005).

2003-2004 

Winners:  Carolyn Dean and Dana Leibsohn, “Hybridity and Its Discontents:  Considering Visual Culture in Colonial Spanish America (CLAR vol. 12, no. 1, June 2003). 

Honorable Mention:  Ilona Katzew, “The Virgin of the Macana:  Emblem of a Franciscan Predicament in New Spain” (CLAR vol. 12, no. 2, December 2003).

2001-2002 

Winner:  Enrique Florescano, “El canon memorioso forjado por los Títulos primordiales” (CLAR vol. 11, no. 2, December 2002). 

Honorable Mention:  Gonzalo Lamana, “Definir y dominar.  Los lugares grises en el Cuzco hacia 1540” (CLAR vol. 10, no. 1, June 2001).

2000

Winners:  José G. Cayuela Fernández and Mariano Esteban de Vega, “Elite hispano-cubana autonomismo y desastre del 98” (CLAR vol. 9, no. 1, June 2000). 

Honorable Mention:  Karen B. Graubart, “Indecent Living:  Indigenous Women and the Politics of Representation in Early Colonial Peru”  (CLAR vol. 9, no. 2, December 2000).