2022 GEMELA AWARDS

Congratulations to all the recipients of our GEMELA awards!

Best Book

Barbara Mújica Women Religious and Epistolary Exchange in the Carmelite Reform: The Disciples of Teresa de Avila (Amsterdam University Press, 2020).

Honorable mention:

Catherine Hall-van-den Elsen, Luisa Roldán (Illuminating Women Artists, Getty Publications, 2021).

Best First Book

Liliana Pérez-Miguel. Mujeres ricas y libres. Mujer y poder: Inés Muñoz y las encomenderas en el Perú (s. XVI) (Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2020).

Best Collaborative Project

Sara Guengerich and Margarita Ochoa, editors. Cacicas. The Indigenous Women Leaders of Spanish America, 1492–1825 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2021).

Best Article

Vanessa de Cruz Medina. “Damas de palacio y retratística en la corte de Felipe II: retratos de los Austrias y de «dama desconocida» en el Museo del Prado,” in the Boletín del Museo del Prado 37, 69-83.

Honorable mentions:

Emily Kuffner. “‘Sweet Chains and Happy Prisons:’ Collective Rituals of Pregnancy and Childbirth in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Occasional Poetry and Domestic Remedy Manuals.” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 15.1 (Fall 2020).

Noelia García Pérez. “Portraits in Metal: Identity, Devotion, and Gender in Juana de Austria’s Portrait Medals,” in The Making of Juana de Austria, Noelia García Pérez eds., New Hispanisms Series, Louisiana State University Press (2021)