MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies

2010	Laura G. Gutiérrez, University of Arizona, for Performing Mexicanidad: Vendidas y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage (Univ. of Texas Press, 2010)
	Honorable mention: Genaro M. Padilla, University of California, Berkeley, for The Daring Flight of My Pen: Cultural Politics and Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá’s Historia de la Nueva Mexico, 1610 (Univ. of New Mexico Press, 2010)
2009	Crystal Parikh, New York University, for An Ethics of Betrayal: The Politics of Otherness in Emergent U.S. Literatures and Cultures (Fordham Univ. Press, 2009)
	Honorable mention: Ramón E. Soto-Crespo, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, for Mainland Passage: The Cultural Anomaly of Puerto Rico (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2009)
2008	Laura Lomas, Rutgers University, Newark, for Translating Empire: José Martí, Migrant Latino Subjects, and American Modernities (Duke Univ. Press, 2008)
	Honorable mention: Sheila Marie Contreras, Michigan State University, for Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature (Univ. of Texas Press, 2008)
2007	Antonio Viego, Duke University, for Dead Subjects: Toward a Politics of Loss in Latino Studies (Duke Univ. Press, 2007)
2006	Alicia Arrizón, University of California, Riverside, for Queering Mestizaje: Transculturation and Performance (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2006)
	Ramón Saldívar, Stanford University, for The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary (Duke Univ. Press, 2006)
2005	Ralph E. Rodriguez, Brown University, for Brown Gumshoes: Detective Fiction and the Search for Chicana/o Identity (Univ. of Texas Press, 2005)
	Honorable Mention: Michelle Habell-Pallán, University of Washington, for Loca Motion: The Travels of Chicana and Latina Popular Culture (New York Univ. Press, 2005)
2004	Frederick Luis Aldama, Ohio State University, for Dancing with Ghosts: A Critical Biography of Arturo Islas (Univ. of California Press, 2004)
2003	Rosa-Linda Fregoso, University of California, Santa Cruz, for MeXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands (Univ. of California Press, 2003)
2002	Mary Pat Brady, Cornell University, for Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space (Duke Univ. Press, 2002)
	Honorable mention: Raúl Homero Villa, Occidental College, for Barrio-Logos: Space and Place in Urban Chicano Literature and Culture (Univ. of Texas Press, 2000)