Interested in submitting your draft paper to the LxG Graduate Student Paper Award Soft Deadline?
Review the paper requirements below.
Submit your draft to us at latinxgeographies@gmail.com with the subject: “LxG Paper Award Soft Deadline.”
Postmark deadline: November 15, 2025
NOW OPEN:
2027 Latinx Geographies Graduate Student Paper Award
Deadline: January 4, 2026
The AAG Latinx Geographies Specialty Group is pleased to announce the seventh annual award for best graduate student paper on a topic pertaining to Latinx geographies. Papers submitted could address the structures that affect Latinx lives on local, national, and/or global scales, as well as the cultural, racial and/or political geographies of Latinx peoples.
The winner will receive a $300 award and the opportunity to workshop and consult with a member of the Latinx Geographies Awards Committee on their manuscript as they prepare for its submission to a peer-reviewed geography journal.
To apply for this award, applicants do not need to be current AAG/LxG members. However, if the winner of this award is not a current AAG/LxG member, they are required to enroll in our membership. Previous recipients of the award are not eligible to apply.
Applicants must send complete papers as a PDF attachment to latinxgeographies@gmail.com by January 4, 2027. (Please note, this email address is monitored weekly, so we may be slow to respond to any inquiries.) Papers must be between 8,000 to 10,000 words including references and notes; word count should be shortened commensurate with use of tables, images or other media. Submissions over the word count will not be considered. Only manuscripts written by a graduate student will be considered; co-authorship with research partners or other collaborators is encouraged, but co-authored papers with a faculty member are not eligible. We encourage graduate students to apply even if they feel their paper is not in a ‘publishable’ state yet, but holds promise.
One (1) award will be given each year. The recipient of the award will present their paper at the 2028 AAG annual meeting. The recipient is also invited to join the 2027 Latinx Geographies Awards Committee in the review of next year’s paper submissions. This invitation is part of Latinx Geographies’ commitment to mentoring emerging Latinx Geographies scholars and shaping the relatively new field of Latinx Geographies.
For the sake of transparency, this year’s Awards Committee has shared the evaluation rubric that reviewers will use when assessing this year’s submissions. We encourage those interested in submitting their paper to review this rubric.
The results of the LxG Student Paper Award competition will be formally announced at the LxG Business Meeting, and the awardee’s name and paper title will be forwarded to the AAG for publication in the AAG Newsletter.
– Awards Cycle Opens: September 4, 2026
– Soft Deadline (optional): November 15, 2026
-Award Submission (Postmark) Deadline: January 4, 2026
Awardees By Year
2026: Martiza Geronimo, “‘Bringing Our Land With Us’: Decentralized Gardens, Indigenous Mobility, and Placemaking”
2025: Jimena Perez, “Restorying the L.A. River”
2024: Kimberly Soriano, “From Gang Injunctions to Encampment Sweeps: Producing Technologies of Spatial Policing toward ‘Data-Driven’ Banishment.”
2023: Mariana Penaloza Morales, “what displacement / this·place·meant/: Miami’s Funeral and the Poetics of Loss”
2022: Elybeth S. Alcantar, “Collective memory as Indigenous spatial resistance: Witnessing after the Massacre of Nochixtlán”
2021: Crisitina Faiver-Serna, “Promotora M(other)work”
2019: Alana de Hinojosa, “Unruly Terrains of Struggle: The Unresolved Space of El Chamizal”
