Pablo Sierra Silva Honored with Prestigious National Award for Editing Historical Sources
Associate professor of history Pablo Sierra Silva receives the 2025 J. Franklin Jameson Award for his bilingual documentary history on slavery and freedom in colonial Mexico.
Pablo Sierra Silva, an associate professor in the Department of History, has received the 2025 J. Franklin Jameson Award for editing historical sources. Sierra Silva received the award for Mexico, Slavery, Freedom: A Bilingual Documentary History, 1520–1829 (Hackett, 2024). The Jameson Award was established in 1974 for outstanding achievement in the editing of historical sources. Sierra Silva’s research is centered on the experiences of Africans and their descendants in colonial Mexico, the Caribbean and the Atlantic during the during the 16th through 18th centuries.