Mid-Career Category

The AAHHE Books of the Year Awards are a celebration of Hispanic culture, history and research excellence and are presented to Latinx/a/o authors to celebrate and recognize their contributions to higher education. AAHHE acknowledges and honors the power of the written word to share the Hispanic experience and celebrates the Hispanic culture, history and research excellence. The AAHHE Books of the Year Awards recipients' accomplishments are at the highest levels of literature and scholarship.  The AAHHE Books of the Year Awards are presented at the annual AAHHE national conference. No other higher education organization provides these significant awards.

Mid-career Award – recognizes a book by a mid-career scholar who’s been recently tenured or who has been in academic or leadership role for 6 to 12 years. The criteria to be considered by the selection committee are the impact of the candidate’s work, where quality reflects the highest standards of writing, research, and excellence and impact is demonstrated through evidence that the work has advanced the research field of Latinx and education. The book should have been published within two years of the deadline, and may not have been previously submitted for this award.

2024 AAHHE Books of the Year Award Recipient
Mid-Career Category

Border Bodies: Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth Century Borderlands (2022)

Bernadine Hernández, PhD
Associate Professor
American Literary Studies
University of New Mexico

Past Recipients of the AAHHE Books of the Year Award in the Mid-Career Category:

• 2023 Francisco Galarte, PhD - Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race, Gender and Sexuality in Chicanx and Latinx Studies (2021)