Latin American and Caribbean section.

The Latin American and Caribbean Section (LACS) of the Association has announced its officers. They are Barbara A. Ganson, Florida Atlantic University, president; Matt D. Childs, Florida State University, vice president; Michael J. LaRosa, Rhodes College, treasurer; Theron Corse, Tennessee State University, secretary; Richmond Brown, University of Florida, managing editor, LACS newsletter; Rosanne M. Adderley, Vanderbilt University, LACS program chair (New Orleans, 2008); Andrew F. McMichael, Western Kentucky University, LACS program chair (Louisville, 2009); and Sherry Johnson, Florida International University, past president and LACS representative on the SHA Executive Council.

The LACS has named the members of its prize committees. The committee to choose the next winner of the Murdo J. MacLeod Book Prize (for the best book by a LACS member in the fields of Latin American and Caribbean history, borderlands, and Atlantic world that appeared in print in 2007) consists of Francie R. Chassen-Lopez, University of Kentucky, chair; Dauril Alden, University of Washington (emeritus); Susan Deans-Smith, University of Texas at Austin; and Bianca Premo, Florida International University. The committee to choose the winner of the LACS/SHA Article Prize (for the best article published by a LACS member in the fields of Latin American and Caribbean history, borderlands, and Atlantic world during 2006 and 2007) consists of Jay Clune, University of West Florida, chair; Juliana Barr, University of Florida; Douglass Sullivan-Gonzalez, University of Mississippi; and Joan E. Supplee, Baylor University. The committee to select the winner of the Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. Paper Prize (for the best paper on Latin American and Caribbean history, borderlands, or Atlantic world presented at the 2008 SHA meeting; open to graduate students) consists of William F. Connell, Christopher Newport University, chair; Rosanne M. Adderley, Vanderbilt University; and Matt D. Childs, Florida State University.

The LACS also wishes to recognize recent prizewinners. The 2007 Murdo J. MacLeod Book Prize for a book that appeared in 2005 or 2006 was awarded to Bianca Premo of Florida International University for Children of the Father King: Youth, Authority, and Legal Minority in Colonial Lima, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2005. Jorge Canizares-Esguerra of the University of Texas at Austin received an honorable mention for the MacLeod Prize for his book Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700, published by Stanford University Press in 2006. The 2007 Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. Prize went to Tatiana Seijas of Yale University for "Indios Chinos in Colonial Mexico's Republica de Indios." The 2006 Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. Prize was given to Pablo Gomez of Vanderbilt University for "Slavery and Disability in Cartagena de Indias, Nuevo Reino de Granada."