The Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas (UMIA) and Latin American Studies (LAS) program are pleased to offer the Barrett Prize for 2024, which will be 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, the Caribbean, and/or their diasporas. The Barrett Prize carries an award amount of $1,500.
The deadline for submissions is Monday, February 3rd, 2025, by 11:59pm EDT.
Eligibility
• The dissertation must have been defended by a present or former UM PhD student.
• The dissertation must demonstrate substantial and innovative interdisciplinary research on Latin America, the Caribbean, and/or their diasporas in any field across the university.
• The dissertation should have been successfully defended after graduate school spring semester 2023 deadline and by the spring semester 2024 deadline (between May 15, 2023, and May 8, 2024).
• 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
Please send your full electronic application in one single .pdf file to mia@miami.edu with the following reference line “Barrett Prize Application.” Please have your advisor separately submit a letter to mia@miami.edu with the reference line “Barrett Prize Recommendation.”
If you have any questions about this program, please send questions to mia@miami.edu.
