SIGA briefs
Michael Schreffler awarded Spiro Kostof Book Award
Michael Schreffler (University of Notre Dame) has been awarded the 2023 Spiro Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians for Cuzco: Incas, Spaniards, and the Making of a Colonial City (Yale University Press, 2020).
Jesús Escobar named 2022 Tufts Award Winner
Jesús Escobar has been named the 2022 recipient of SIGA’s annual Eleanor Tufts Award for his book Habsburg Madrid: Architecture and the Spanish Monarchy (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2022). Honorable mention goes to Byron Ellsworth Hamann, The Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture, and the Archive of the Indies, 1781–1844 (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2022).
Claudia Hopkins named 2022 Jonathan Brown Award Winner
Claudia Hopkins has been named the 2022 recipient of SIGA’s inaugural Jonathan Brown Award for her edited book Romantic Spain: David Roberts and Genaro Pérez Villaamil (Madrid: Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando; Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica, 2021). Honorable mention goes to Rosario I. Granados, ed., Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin America (Austin: Blanton Museum of Art, 2022).
Aaron Hyman: Honorable Mention for Gordan Prize
Aaron Hyman’s book Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America (Getty Publications, 2021) has been awarded honorable mention by the Renaissance Society of America for its 2023 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize, an annual award for the best book in Renaissance studies.
Aaron Hyman awarded Best Book in Colonial Latin American Studies
Aaron M. Hyman was awarded 2022’s Best Book in Colonial Latin American Studies by the Latin American Studies Association for his book Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2021).
Olga Bush awarded 2023 ICMA-Samuel H. Kress Foundation Research and Publication Grant
Olga Bush was awarded the 2023 ICMA-Samuel H. Kress Foundation Research and Publication Grant to support on-site research in Spain and Sicily for her project entitled “Forced Labor: Exotic Fauna in the Animation of Medieval Court Environments.”
Hannah Friedman awarded Nelson prize
Hannah Friedman’s article “Jusepe de Ribera’s Five Senses and the Practice of Prudence” has won the RSA’s William Nelson Prize for the best article published in Renaissance Quarterly during 2021.
Benito Navarrete Prieto named 2021 Tufts Award winner
Benito Navarrete Prieto has been named the 2021 recipient of SIGA’s annual Eleanor Tufts Award for his book Murillo: Persuasion and Aura (Harvey Miller, 2021). Honorable mentions go to Noelia García Pérez (ed.), The Making of Juana de Austria: Gender, Art, and Patronage in Early Modern Iberia (LSU Press, 2021) and Laura Fernández-González, Philip II of Spain and the Architecture of Empire (Penn State, 2021). Read an article in the Diario de Sevilla about Professor Navarrete’s award.