Barrett Prize

The Barrett Prize is awarded to the doctoral student who has produced the best dissertation at the University of Miami in the past year on a topic related to any aspect of Latin America and the Caribbean.  The Barrett Prize carries an award amount of $1,500. 

Eligibility

  • The dissertation must have been defended by present or former UM PhD students.
  • The dissertation must demonstrate substantial and innovative research on Latin America, the Caribbean, and/or its diasporic communities in any field or discipline across the university.
  • The selection committee reserves the right not to award a prize in a given year.

Applications should include:

  • A nominating letter from the student's dissertation advisor
  • A one-page summary of the dissertation
  • A complete doctoral dissertation

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  • 2025 Barrett Prize Recipients

    Rosario Concha - "Racialized Gender Violence in the Production of Forensic Evidence: The Case of Abortion Criminalization in Chile (1874–1950)" 

    Edward William Wintergalen - "Urbanization and Livelihood Resilience in Mexican Small-Scale Fishing Communities" 

  • 2022 Barrett Prize Recipients

    Diego Ocampo - "The Role of Secondary Sexual Characters in Incipient Speciation in the Variable Seedeater, Sporophila corvina" 

    Maria V. Véliz - "Silences in Performance Art: Liveness in the Americas in the 21st Century" 

  • 2021 Barrett Prize Recipients

    Liliane Lugo Herrera - “Mediated Archipelagos: Theater, Women and Media" 

  • 2020 Barrett Prize Recipients

    Rhoda K. Moise - “Cervical Cancer Prevention and Control in Haitian Women Living in South Florida and the Central Plateau of Haiti” 

    Honorable mention ~

    Lorella Di Gregorio - "The Global Journey of Mexican and Southern Italian Cultural Products in the Time of Flows"

    Belén Fadrique - “Bamboo and its role as a key modulator of the structure and functioning of Andean and Amazonian forests” 

     

  • 2019 Barrett Prize Recipient

    Johann Besserer - "NGOS and North/South Relations in Sustainable Development in the Galapagos Islands"

  • 2018 Barrett Prize Recipients

    Ashley Marchante-Hoffman - "Giving Voice to Foreign-Born Latinx Youth: Trauma and Health in Primary Care" 

    Johna E. Rudzin - "The Influence of the Amazon-Orinoco River Plume on Hurricane Intensity in the Caribbean Sea" 

  • 2017 Barrett Prize Recipient

    Diego Lugo - "Land Concentration and Land Grabbing in the Colombian Frontier"

  • 2016 Barrett Prize Recipient

    Amanda Hintzen - "A Sugarcane Immigration Status: The History of Statelessness in the Dominican Republic"

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