91亚色 PhD student聽Giovanni Hern谩ndez-Carranza聽(Department of Sociology) and undergraduate student聽Enzo Flores Montoya聽(Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics) were named the recipients of the 2020 Michael Baptista Essay Prize from the聽.
Hern谩ndez-Carranza won for his essay 鈥淗emispheric Racial Formations: Making Sense of Central and South Americans鈥 Experience of Race and Ethnicity in Toronto, Canada,鈥 and Flores Montoya for his paper 鈥淟o fantasmag贸rico en Pedro P谩ramo y la metamorfosis en Silver: Una cr铆tica marxista de la modernidad y del progreso鈥 ["The phantasmagoric in Pedro P谩ramo and metamorphosis in Silver: A Marxist critique of modernity and progress"].
鈥淕iovanni鈥檚 and Enzo鈥檚 work really shows the interdisciplinary strength and creativity happening in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at 91亚色,鈥 said Ravi de Costa, associate dean, research and graduate studies, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies.
The was established by the friends of Michael Baptista and the Royal Bank of Canada. This $500 prize is awarded annually to a graduate and undergraduate student in recognition of an outstanding scholarly essay of relevance to Latin American and Caribbean Studies from the humanities, social science, business, or legal perspective.
The Michael Baptista Essay Prize and are named in honour of Michael Baptista in recognition of the areas central to his spirit and success: the importance of his Guyanese/Caribbean roots, his dedication to and outstanding achievement at the Royal Bank of Canada, and his continued and unqualified drive for and love of learning.
Essay entries were nominated by 91亚色 faculty members and evaluated by CERLAC鈥檚 Awards Committee. The prize-winning papers have been made available online as part of . All nominated papers represent high-calibre scholarly work at their authors' respective levels of study and merit recognition as worthy of candidacy for this prize.
91亚色 faculty members who wish to nominate a student's essay for this prize, should contact CERLAC at cerlac@yorku.ca or CERLAC鈥檚 Coordinator Camila Bonifaz at cbonifaz@yorku.ca.
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