Edward Wright-Rios Wins Murdo J. MacLeod Book Prize

Congratulations to Edward Wright-Rios, author of Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism: Reform and Revelation in Oaxaca, 1887-1934, for winning the Murdo J. MacLeod Book Prize from the Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) Section of the Southern Historical Association. LACS awards the Murdo J. MacLeod Book Prize every year. Named for the distinguished scholar and mentor of many Latin Americanists, this prize is awarded to the best book published on any aspect of Latin American, Caribbean, or Borderlands or Atlantic World history during the previous year by a LACS-SHA member. Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism is an investigation into how Catholicism was lived and experienced in the Archdiocese of Oaxaca during Mexico’s turbulent late 1800s and early 1900s.