Amilcar Challu (PhD 2007) was awarded the Gerschenkron Prize for best Economic History Dissertation outside the US and Canada in the year 2007-2008 for his dissertation entitled “Grain Markets, Food Supply Policies, and Living Standards in late Colonial Mexico.” The award was presented on September 13, 2008 in the 68th Economic History Association Annual Meeting in New Haven, CT.

The Alexander Gerschenkron Prize in Economic History is awarded annually by the Economic History Association for the best dissertation in the economic history of an area outside of the United States or Canada completed during the previous year.

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