Virginia Sánchez Korrol
Dissertation Award
In 2018, the PRSA dissertation award was named in honor of Virginia Sanchez Korrol, a distinguished and foundational figure in our field. This award will recognize and honor the most notable Ph.D. dissertation produced in Puerto Rican Studies. This competition is open to any topic, theme, approach or discipline. Nominations for this award can be made by any PRSA member, individual author, thesis advisor or thesis committee member.
The PRSA Dissertation Award Committee will select a winning dissertation based on its scholarly originality, overall excellence, and compelling engagement with issues and concerns related to Puerto Rico and/or the diaspora. The Committee will recognize the dissertation that best represents an exceptionally distinguished contribution to the field of Puerto Rican Studies.
The award is conferred during the biennial conference.
Call For Submissions
2024 Virginia Sánchez Korrol Dissertation Award
The Puerto Rican Studies Association is pleased to open its biennial Virginia Sánchez Korrol Dissertation Award Competition, the winner of which will be publicly announced during our biennial conference from August 23-25, 2024.
The Award includes a modest monetary award of $500 and certificate of recognition. The honoree will be recognized in the PRSA’s various social media platforms and during our biennial conference.
Eligibility:
Dissertations successfully defended and deposited from June 2, 2022 through June 1, 2024 are eligible for consideration.
All the submissions must be from PRSA members. If you are unsure of your membership status, please contact the Executive Council (ricanstudies@gmail.com) prior to your submission.
Deadline:
June 2, 2024.
Submission Guidelines:
Complete the 2024 Dissertation Award Online Submission form found below.
Forward a digital copy of the dissertation under consideration to to ricanstudies@gmail.com and mitmorn@ilstu.edu.
General questions regarding the dissertation award competition can be directed to award committee chair, Maura Toro-Morn (mitmorn@ilstu.edu).
2022 PRSA Dissertation Award Committee
Maura Toro-Morn (Committee Chair, PRSA Vice President)
Professor of Sociology
Illinois State University
Sara Awartani
LSA Collegiate Fellow, Assistant Professor of American Culture
University of Michigan
Zorimar Rivera Montes
Assistant Professor of English & Spanish and Portuguese
Tulane University
Past winners
2022: Sara C. Awartani, "Solidarities of Liberation, Visions of Empire: Puerto Rico, Palestine, and the U.S. Imperial Project, 1967-1999"
Honorable Mention: Sarah Bruno, "Black Latinx Dexterity: Emotions in Bomba Puertorriqueña and Decolonizing Diasporic Archives"
Honorable Mention: Sarah Molinari, “Reimagining Recovery: Debt, Mutual Aid, and Disaster Governance in Puerto Rico”
2020: Julie Torres, "In Times of Crisis: Puerto Rican Activism, Gender and Belonging in Orlando"
Honorable Mention: Laura Janet Kaplan, "P.S. 25, South Bronx: Bilingual Education and Community Control"
2018: Cristina Pérez Jiménez:, “‘Here to Stay’: New York Puerto Ricans and the Consolidation of Latino New York, 1931-1951”
2016: Alessandra M. Rosa, “Resistance Performances: (Re)constructing Spaces of Resistance and Contention in the 2010-2011 University of Puerto Rico Student Movement”
2014: Peter Carlo Becerra, “Which is 'white' and which 'colored'?: Notes on race and/or color among Puerto Ricans in interwar New York City”
2012: Marilisa Jimenez, “‘Every child is born a poet’: The Puerto Rican narrative within American children’s culture”
2010: Radost Rangelova, “House, Factory, Beauty Salon, Brothel: Space, Gender and Sexuality in Puerto Rican Literature and Film”