Historian Adrián Gorelik wins prize for book on Latin American cities
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The American Historical Association awarded historian Adrián Gorelik the Clarence H.
Haring Prize for his book La ciudad latinoamericana (The Latin American City). Gorelik, an architect and historian from the University of Buenos Aires, received the award for a book exploring the planning and political imagination behind the development of cities like Havana, Lima, and Buenos Aires. He conducted research in European and North American archives to complete the project, which was published in 2023.
Gorelik is an independent researcher with CONICET, a science and technology agency, and a professor at the National University of Quilmes in Argentina. He previously won the Konex Prize in the category of Political, Cultural, and Intellectual History. The AHA gives the Clarence H. Haring Prize every five years to a book on Latin American history, and it includes a $1,000 award. Gorelik expressed pride in joining previous Argentine winners Tulio Halperin Donghi and Hilda Sabato, whom he considers mentors.
He also emphasized the role of Argentina’s public universities, the University of Buenos Aires and the National University of Quilmes, in supporting his fifteen-year research project, noting that these institutions are currently facing budget cuts.
