The Antonia I. Castañeda Prize

The Antonia I. Castañeda Prize is awarded to a published scholarly article or book chapter of an historical orientation on the intersection of class, race, gender, and sexuality as related to Chicana/Latina and/or Native/Indigenous women.  The piece must have been published in the previous year by a woman who is an ABD graduate student, pre-tenured faculty member, or an independent scholar.

Purpose of the award:  The award is designed to promote and acknowledge scholarship of an historical orientation by Chicana/Latina and/or Native/Indigenous scholars working on issues of intersectionality. No books or creative writing considered.  Publication should have been published during the 2024 calendar year.

Application/Nominations Process:  Both applications and nominations are encouraged. Submit  a PDF copy of the published manuscript, paper, or article and a two-page curriculum vita of the applicant or nominee.  The submission must include a short letter by the applicant or nominee addressing the merits of the article or book chapter’s contribution to the field.   Applicants are also required to solicit a letter from a third party to that effect (e.g., from an adviser, a chair, a colleague). In all cases, applicant or nominee contact information, email address, telephone number, and mailing address, must be included in the application/nomination letter.  Submissions of all materials shall be delivered electronically by the deadline directly to: CastanedaPrize@naccs.org

Deadlines:

November 30: Application due to NACCS at CastanedaPrize@naccs.org

January 5: Awardee is notified by the Selection Committee

Terms of the award:   $500. 

Awards Committee.  The awards committee is composed of three (3) NACCS members who work in the areas addressed by the prize.

Past Recipients:

  • 2024: Alana de Hinojosa, "El Rio Grande as Pedagogy: The Unruly, Unresolved Terrains of the Chamizal Land Dispute," American Quarterly 73.4 (2021): 711-742.
  • 2024: Yvette Saavedra, "Speaking for themselves: Rancheras and Respectability in Mexican California, 11800-1850." California History 10.1, February (Spring) 2023, 3-26.
  • 2021:  Leo Valdes, “In the Shadow of the Health-Care City: Historicizing Trans Latinx Immigrant Experiences during the Coronavirus Pandemic.” US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal, vol. 5, 2021, pp. 32-65.
  • 2019: Clarissa Rojas Durazo, "For Breath to Return to Love: B/ordering Violence and the War on Drugs." In The Routledge History of Latin American Culture, edited by Carlos Manuel Salomon.
  • 2018: Maria Elena Duarte, "Uneven Exchanges: Borderlands Violence and the Search for Peace at Sand Creek." Chicana Latina Studies 16(1).
  • 2017: Margo Tamez (Nde'), "Indigenous Women's Rivered Refusals in El Calaboz." Dialogo 19, 1 (Spring 2016): 7-21.
  • 2015: Belinda Linn Rincón, "Estas son Mis Armas": Lorna Dee Cervantes Poetics of Feminist Solidarity in the Era of Neoliberal Militarism." WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly 42(3&4): 51-69.
  • 2014: Jenny Luna, "La Tradición Conchera: Historical Process of Danza and Catholicism." Diálogo 16(1): 47-64.
  • 2013: Vanessa Fonseca, "Rosaura Sánchez, critica marxista y máxima expresión del La Jolla Circle: sus contribuciones a la critica chicana, la sociolingüistica y la recuperación de la obra decimonónica de María Amparo Ruiz de Burton." In Chican@s y mexican@s norten@s: Bi-Borderlands Dialogues on Literary and Cultural Production. Edited by Graciela Silva-Rodriguez and Manuel de Jesus Hernandez-G. 73-110.
  • 2012: Cindy Cruz, "LGBTQ Street Youth Talk Back; A Meditation on Resistance and Witnessing." International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 24(5): 547-558.