AAHHE Books of the Year Awards
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The AAHHE Books of the Year Awards, presented annually at the national conference of the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education, is a celebration of Hispanic culture, history and research excellence. These authors' accomplishments are at the highest levels of literature and scholarship. By awarding the annual Book of the Year Award, AAHHE acknowledges and honors the power of the written word to share the Hispanic experience and to enlighten the global community. No other higher education organization provides this significant award. |
2022 AAHHE Books of the Year Awards Recipients
Edited Volume Category
An Asset-Based Approach to Advancing Latina Students in STEM: Increasing Resilience, Participation, and Success
Elsa Gonzalez, PhD Associate Professor Educational Leadership & Policy Studies University of Houston
Frank Fernandez, PhD Assistant Professor School of Human Development and Organizational Studies in Education University of Florida
Miranda Wilson
- Principal, Institutional Research
- Provost & SVP Academic & Faculty Affairs
Baylor College of Medicine
Studying Latinx/a/o Students in Higher Education: A Critical Analysis of Concepts, Theory, and Methodologies
Nichole Farcia, PhD Assistant Professor Rutgers University
Cristobal Salinas, Jr., PhD Associate Professor Florida Atlantic University
Jesus Cisneros, PhD Associate Professor University of Texas, El Paso
Early Career Category
Of Love and Papers: How Immigration Policy Affects Romance and Family
Laura Enriquez, PhD Associate Professor Chicano/Latino Studies
University of California, Irvine
Previous recipients of the AAHHE Books of the Year Awards:
2021
Susan Paik, PhD, Stacy Kula, PhD, Jeremiah González, PhD, Verónica González, PhD, High Achieving Latino Students Gil Conchas, PhD, Nancy Acevedo, PhD, The Chicano/o/x Dream: Hope, Resistance, and Educational Success Vasti Torres, PhD, Ebelia Hernandez, PhD, Sylvia Martinez, PhD, Understanding the LatinX Experience Emir Estrada, PhD, Kids at Work
2021 AAHHE Distinguished Authors Awards Aida Hurtado, PhD, Intersectional Chicana Feminisms: Sitios y Lenguas Michael A. Olivas, PhD, Perchance to Dream: A Legal and Political History of the Dream Act and DACA Carlos Vélez-Ibañez, PhD, Reflections of a Transborder Anthropologist: From Netzahualcoyotl to Aztlán
2020 Gina Garcia, Becoming Hispanic-Serving Institutions: Opportunities for Colleges and Universities
2019 Alberto Ledesma, Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer: Undocumented Vignettes from a Pre-American Life
2018 Alberto Acereda, Estela Bensimón, Alfredo G. de los Santos Jr., Gary Francisco Keller, Laura J. Rendón, Richard J. Tannenbaum, New Directions in Hispanic College Student Assessment and Academic Preparation Hispanic College Students Move Forward: Policies, Planning, and Progress in Promoting Access
2017 Aída Hurtado and Mrinal Sinha, Beyond Machismo
2016 Dolores Inés Casillas, Sounds of Belonging: U.S. Spanish-language Radio and Public Advocacy
2015 Alicia Gaspar de Alba, [Un]framing the “Bad Woman”: Sor Juana, Malinche, Coyolxauhqui, and Other Rebels with a Cause
2014 Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, Love and Empire: Cybermarriage and Citizenship Across the Americas
2013 Arturo Madrid, In the Country of Empty Crosses: The Story of a Hispano Protestant Family in Catholic New Mexico
2012 Rubén Martinez, Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail
2011 David Montejano, Quixote’s Soldiers: A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966-1981
2010 Gustavo Arellano, ¡Ask a Mexican!
2009 Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
2008 Mirta Ojito, Finding Mañana
2007 Sonia Nazario, Enrique’s Journey
2006 Jeanett Castellanos, Alberta M. Gloria, and Mark Kamimura, The Latina/o Pathway to the PhD: Abriendo Caminos
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