MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies

2006	Alicia Arrizón, University of California, Riverside, for Queering Mestizaje: Transculturation and Performance (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2006)
	Ramón Saldívar, Stanford University, for The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary (Duke Univ. Press, 2006)
2005	Ralph E. Rodriguez, Brown University, for Brown Gumshoes: Detective Fiction and the Search for Chicana/o Identity (Univ. of Texas Press, 2005)
	Honorable Mention: Michelle Habell-Pallán, University of Washington, for Loca Motion: The Travels of Chicana and Latina Popular Culture (New York Univ. Press, 2005)
2004	Frederick Luis Aldama, Ohio State University, for Dancing with Ghosts: A Critical Biography of Arturo Islas (Univ. of California Press, 2004)
2003	Rosa-Linda Fregoso, University of California, Santa Cruz, for MeXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands (Univ. of California Press, 2003)
2002	Mary Pat Brady, Cornell University, for Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space (Duke Univ. Press, 2002)
	Honorable mention: Raúl Homero Villa, Occidental College, for Barrio-Logos: Space and Place in Urban Chicano Literature and Culture (Univ. of Texas Press, 2000)