Virginia Sánchez Korrol

Virginia Sánchez Korrol is an American historian and foundational figure in the field of Puerto Rican studies. She is a professor emerita at Brooklyn College and CUNY.

Virginia Sánchez Korrol Dissertation Award In 2018, the Puerto Rican Studies Association (PRSA) named the PRSA dissertation award, an award meant to recognize and honor the most notable Ph.D. dissertation produced in Puerto Rican Studies, for Virginia Sánchez Korrol. Winners are chosen every two years.

Past Winners 2022: Sara C. Awartani, "Solidarities of Liberation, Visions of Empire: Puerto Rico, Palestine, and the U.S. Imperial Project, 1967-1999"

Honorable Mention: Sarah Bruno, "Black Latinx Dexterity: Emotions in Bomba Puertorriqueña and Decolonizing Diasporic Archives" Honorable Mention: Sarah Molinari, "Reimagining Recovery: Debt, Mutual Aid, and Disaster Governance in Puerto Rico"

2020: Julie Torres, "In Times of Crisis: Puerto Rican Activism, Gender and Belonging in Orlando"

Honorable Mention: Laura Janet Kaplan, "P.S. 25, South Bronx: Bilingual Education and Community Control"

2018: Cristina Pérez Jiménez:, "'Here to Stay': New York Puerto Ricans and the Consolidation of Latino New York, 1931-1951"

2016: Alessandra M. Rosa, "Resistance Performances: (Re)constructing Spaces of Resistance and Contention in the 2010-2011 University of Puerto Rico Student Movement"

2014: Peter Carlo Becerra, "Which is 'white' and which 'colored'?: Notes on race and/or color among Puerto Ricans in interwar New York City"

2012: Marilisa Jimenez, "'Every child is born a poet': The Puerto Rican narrative within American children's culture"

2010: Radost Rangelova, "House, Factory, Beauty Salon, Brothel: Space, Gender and Sexuality in Puerto Rican Literature and Film"