草榴社区's Ricardo L贸pez-Pedreros wins award for "Makers of Democracy: A Transnational History of the Middle Classes in Colombia"
草榴社区 Professor of History Ricardo L贸pez-Pedreros has won Honorable Mention for his paper," Makers of Democracy: A Transnational History of the Middle Classes in Colombia," as submitted to the Alejandro 脕ngel Escobar Foundation awards in the category of Social and Human Sciences.
Alejandro 脕ngel Escobar was a Colombian businessman born in Medell铆n in 1903. In his will, after having studied the operation of the Nobel Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, he entrusted his wife, Mar铆a Restrepo de 脕ngel, with the creation of a foundation that would bear his name and that would annually award two prizes for scientific merit and two more for solidarity and social work in Colombia. In 1955 the Alejandro 脕ngel Escobar Foundation was created.
For more on L贸pez-Pedreros' award, see the foundation's website .