HoS Alumna Angélica Márquez-Osuna Awarded the SKLAC Dissertation Prize by the History of Science Society

Dr. Márquez-Osuna, now Asst. Professor of History, Loyola University of Chicago, will receive the newly inaugurated SKLAC Prize for her 2023 Harvard dissertation, "Innovation in the Tropics: The Persistence of Beekeeping Knowledge in the Yucatan Peninsula, 1780-1950."

Beginning this year, the Steering Committee of the Forum for Science and Knowledge in Latin America and the Caribbean (SKLAC), of the History of Science Society will award their prize to the dissertation in English, Spanish, or Portuguese judged to make the most significant contribution to the history of science, knowledge, and medicine in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Dr. Márquez-Osuna's "gripping and beautifully written" work has also received the 2024 Gilbert Fite Dissertation Award from the Agricultural History Society.