{"id":18001,"date":"2026-03-24T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/?p=18001"},"modified":"2026-03-10T15:49:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:49:53","slug":"2026-juan-e-mendez-book-award-for-human-rights-in-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2026\/03\/24\/2026-juan-e-mendez-book-award-for-human-rights-in-latin-america\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Juan E. M\u00e9ndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Post contributed by Patrick A. Stawski, Human Rights Archivist<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/A-Flower-Traveled-in-My-Blood\/Haley-Cohen-Gilliland\/9781668017142\"><em>A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em>by Haley Cohen Gilliland is the winner of the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/humanrights.fhi.duke.edu\/current-programs\/juan-e-mendez-book-award\/\">Juan E. M\u00e9ndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gilliland will accept the award and talk about her work on April 7, 2026, from 5:00pm-6:30pm at the Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Smith Warehouse, Bay 4.\u00a0 More information about the event can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/humanrights.fhi.duke.edu\/event\/mendez-award-ceremony-haley-cohen-gilliland-flower-traveled-my-blood-04-07-2026\/\">DHRC@FHI website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18002\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18002\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2026\/03\/Cohen-Gilliland-headshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18002 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2026\/03\/Cohen-Gilliland-headshot-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cohen Gilliland headshot\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2026\/03\/Cohen-Gilliland-headshot-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2026\/03\/Cohen-Gilliland-headshot-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2026\/03\/Cohen-Gilliland-headshot-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2026\/03\/Cohen-Gilliland-headshot.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18002\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2026 Juan E. Mendez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America Winner, Cohen Gilliland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is the seventeenth year of this prestigious award. The award is supported by the Duke Human Rights Center@the Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke\u2019s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Human Rights Archive at the Rubenstein Rare Book &amp; Manuscript Library.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>A Flower Traveled in My Blood, <\/em>Gilliland documents how the Argentine Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo set out to find their grandchildren, abducted by the military junta in the 1970s and 80s.\u00a0With determination and creativity, the <em>abuelas<\/em>\u00a0marched, confronted the authorities, allied with local and international human rights groups, and pioneered the use of genetic testing to find their loved ones. This is despite the intense grief of losing their adult children, &#8220;disappeared&#8221; by the security forces.<\/p>\n<p>Deborah Jakubs, a judge and University Librarian Emerita at Duke University and historian of Latin America, wrote that the book is \u201cexceptional.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18003\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18003\" style=\"width: 198px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2026\/03\/Flower-Traveled-book-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18003\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2026\/03\/Flower-Traveled-book-cover-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"Flower Traveled book cover\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2026\/03\/Flower-Traveled-book-cover-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2026\/03\/Flower-Traveled-book-cover-675x1024.jpg 675w, https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2026\/03\/Flower-Traveled-book-cover-768x1166.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2026\/03\/Flower-Traveled-book-cover-1012x1536.jpg 1012w, https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2026\/03\/Flower-Traveled-book-cover-1349x2048.jpg 1349w, https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2026\/03\/Flower-Traveled-book-cover.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18003\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Book cover for A Flower Traveled in My Blood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMeticulously researched and beautifully written, Gilliland\u2019s book traces the rise of the Abuelas\u2019 activism by focusing on the life and death of one young woman, Patricia Roisinblit, the only child of Rosa and Benjam\u00edn\u2026 <em>A Flower Traveled in My Blood<\/em>\u00a0reads like a mystery novel, as Patricia\u2019s story and those of other <em>desaparecidos<\/em>\u00a0unfold against the backdrop of military repression and societal unrest. One of the book\u2019s many strengths is the author\u2019s careful attention to the complex ethical, legal, and emotional aspects of attempting to return lost children to families that are completely new to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Christine Folch, also a judge and the Bacca Foundation Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University, wrote, \u201cUltimately, \u2018who am I?\u2019 is the fundamental question of the book. I particularly appreciated that the author does not sugar coat or hide the dilemmas faced by adult grandchildren who now have to grapple with whether to accuse the only parents they have known.<\/p>\n<p>The other judges included Prof. James Chappel, a member of the DHRC@FHI executive committee and the Gilhuly Family Associate Professor in the History Department at Duke; and Robin Kirk, a former co-director of the DHRC@FHI and Professor of the Practice in the Cultural Anthropology Department at Duke.<\/p>\n<p>When notified of the award, Gilland stated, \u201cI am deeply honored to receive the Juan E. M\u00e9ndez prize, and to be associated with Professor M\u00e9ndez and his enduring legacy of human rights advocacy. It is especially meaningful to receive this recognition from Duke, whose library holdings on human rights in Latin America are unparalleled, and which I frequently and gratefully consulted for this project. I would like to dedicate this award to the grandmothers and grandchildren who trusted me with their stories and who have remained relentless in their fight for truth, justice, and the preservation of memory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>First awarded in 2008, the M\u00e9ndez Human Rights Book Award honors the best current non-fiction book published in English on human rights, democracy, and social justice in contemporary Latin America. The books are evaluated by a panel of judges drawn from academia, journalism, human rights, and public policy circles.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the award, event, and previous winners, see <a href=\"https:\/\/humanrights.fhi.duke.edu\/current-programs\/juan-e-mendez-book-award\/\">https:\/\/humanrights.fhi.duke.edu\/current-programs\/juan-e-mendez-book-award\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about <em>A Flower Traveled in My Blood<\/em>, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/A-Flower-Traveled-in-My-Blood\/Haley-Cohen-Gilliland\/9781668017142\">https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/A-Flower-Traveled-in-My-Blood\/Haley-Cohen-Gilliland\/9781668017142<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post contributed by Patrick A. Stawski, Human Rights Archivist A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children\u00a0by Haley Cohen Gilliland is the winner of the 2026 Juan E. M\u00e9ndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America. Gilliland will accept the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2026\/03\/24\/2026-juan-e-mendez-book-award-for-human-rights-in-latin-america\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2026 Juan E. M\u00e9ndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"coauthors":[650],"class_list":["post-18001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-our-collections"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2026 Juan E. M\u00e9ndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America - The Devil&#039;s Tale<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2026\/03\/24\/2026-juan-e-mendez-book-award-for-human-rights-in-latin-america\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2026 Juan E. M\u00e9ndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America - The Devil&#039;s Tale\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Post contributed by Patrick A. Stawski, Human Rights Archivist A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children\u00a0by Haley Cohen Gilliland is the winner of the 2026 Juan E. M\u00e9ndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America. Gilliland will accept the &hellip; Continue reading 2026 Juan E. M\u00e9ndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America &rarr;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2026\/03\/24\/2026-juan-e-mendez-book-award-for-human-rights-in-latin-america\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Devil&#039;s Tale\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-03-24T14:00:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2026\/03\/Cohen-Gilliland-headshot.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1536\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"John Gartrell\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@rubensteinlib\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@rubensteinlib\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"John Gartrell\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2026\/03\/24\/2026-juan-e-mendez-book-award-for-human-rights-in-latin-america\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2026\/03\/24\/2026-juan-e-mendez-book-award-for-human-rights-in-latin-america\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"John Gartrell\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/#\/schema\/person\/a37858407de1d93966fbb512cf6e8bfa\"},\"headline\":\"2026 Juan E. M\u00e9ndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-03-24T14:00:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2026\/03\/24\/2026-juan-e-mendez-book-award-for-human-rights-in-latin-america\/\"},\"wordCount\":682,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2026\/03\/24\/2026-juan-e-mendez-book-award-for-human-rights-in-latin-america\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2026\/03\/Cohen-Gilliland-headshot-200x300.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"From Our Collections\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2026\/03\/24\/2026-juan-e-mendez-book-award-for-human-rights-in-latin-america\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2026\/03\/24\/2026-juan-e-mendez-book-award-for-human-rights-in-latin-america\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2026\/03\/24\/2026-juan-e-mendez-book-award-for-human-rights-in-latin-america\/\",\"name\":\"2026 Juan E. M\u00e9ndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America - The Devil&#039;s Tale\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2026\/03\/24\/2026-juan-e-mendez-book-award-for-human-rights-in-latin-america\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2026\/03\/24\/2026-juan-e-mendez-book-award-for-human-rights-in-latin-america\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2026\/03\/Cohen-Gilliland-headshot-200x300.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-03-24T14:00:43+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/#\/schema\/person\/a37858407de1d93966fbb512cf6e8bfa\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2026\/03\/24\/2026-juan-e-mendez-book-award-for-human-rights-in-latin-america\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2026\/03\/24\/2026-juan-e-mendez-book-award-for-human-rights-in-latin-america\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2026\/03\/24\/2026-juan-e-mendez-book-award-for-human-rights-in-latin-america\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2026\/03\/Cohen-Gilliland-headshot.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2026\/03\/Cohen-Gilliland-headshot.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":1536,\"caption\":\"2026 Juan E. Mendez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America Winner, Cohen Gilliland\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2026\/03\/24\/2026-juan-e-mendez-book-award-for-human-rights-in-latin-america\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"2026 Juan E. M\u00e9ndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/\",\"name\":\"The Devil&#039;s Tale\",\"description\":\"Dispatches from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/#\/schema\/person\/a37858407de1d93966fbb512cf6e8bfa\",\"name\":\"John Gartrell\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/76bafa8a38c9594bb9952a6d1d79a15a\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3f057fbb4c4e6f2b3b0437e692f371bf0a1644cfd77e630d19d1eb35c691dc97?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3f057fbb4c4e6f2b3b0437e692f371bf0a1644cfd77e630d19d1eb35c691dc97?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"John Gartrell\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/author\/jbg21duke-edu\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"2026 Juan E. M\u00e9ndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America - The Devil&#039;s Tale","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2026\/03\/24\/2026-juan-e-mendez-book-award-for-human-rights-in-latin-america\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"2026 Juan E. M\u00e9ndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America - The Devil&#039;s Tale","og_description":"Post contributed by Patrick A. Stawski, Human Rights Archivist A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children\u00a0by Haley Cohen Gilliland is the winner of the 2026 Juan E. M\u00e9ndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America. Gilliland will accept the &hellip; Continue reading 2026 Juan E. M\u00e9ndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America &rarr;","og_url":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2026\/03\/24\/2026-juan-e-mendez-book-award-for-human-rights-in-latin-america\/","og_site_name":"The Devil&#039;s Tale","article_published_time":"2026-03-24T14:00:43+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":1536,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2026\/03\/Cohen-Gilliland-headshot.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"John Gartrell","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@rubensteinlib","twitter_site":"@rubensteinlib","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"John Gartrell","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2026\/03\/24\/2026-juan-e-mendez-book-award-for-human-rights-in-latin-america\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2026\/03\/24\/2026-juan-e-mendez-book-award-for-human-rights-in-latin-america\/"},"author":{"name":"John Gartrell","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/#\/schema\/person\/a37858407de1d93966fbb512cf6e8bfa"},"headline":"2026 Juan E. M\u00e9ndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America","datePublished":"2026-03-24T14:00:43+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2026\/03\/24\/2026-juan-e-mendez-book-award-for-human-rights-in-latin-america\/"},"wordCount":682,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2026\/03\/24\/2026-juan-e-mendez-book-award-for-human-rights-in-latin-america\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2026\/03\/Cohen-Gilliland-headshot-200x300.jpg","articleSection":["From Our Collections"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2026\/03\/24\/2026-juan-e-mendez-book-award-for-human-rights-in-latin-america\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2026\/03\/24\/2026-juan-e-mendez-book-award-for-human-rights-in-latin-america\/","url":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2026\/03\/24\/2026-juan-e-mendez-book-award-for-human-rights-in-latin-america\/","name":"2026 Juan E. M\u00e9ndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America - The Devil&#039;s Tale","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2026\/03\/24\/2026-juan-e-mendez-book-award-for-human-rights-in-latin-america\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2026\/03\/24\/2026-juan-e-mendez-book-award-for-human-rights-in-latin-america\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2026\/03\/Cohen-Gilliland-headshot-200x300.jpg","datePublished":"2026-03-24T14:00:43+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/#\/schema\/person\/a37858407de1d93966fbb512cf6e8bfa"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2026\/03\/24\/2026-juan-e-mendez-book-award-for-human-rights-in-latin-america\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2026\/03\/24\/2026-juan-e-mendez-book-award-for-human-rights-in-latin-america\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2026\/03\/24\/2026-juan-e-mendez-book-award-for-human-rights-in-latin-america\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2026\/03\/Cohen-Gilliland-headshot.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2026\/03\/Cohen-Gilliland-headshot.jpg","width":1024,"height":1536,"caption":"2026 Juan E. Mendez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America Winner, Cohen Gilliland"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2026\/03\/24\/2026-juan-e-mendez-book-award-for-human-rights-in-latin-america\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"2026 Juan E. M\u00e9ndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/#website","url":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/","name":"The Devil&#039;s Tale","description":"Dispatches from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/#\/schema\/person\/a37858407de1d93966fbb512cf6e8bfa","name":"John Gartrell","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/76bafa8a38c9594bb9952a6d1d79a15a","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3f057fbb4c4e6f2b3b0437e692f371bf0a1644cfd77e630d19d1eb35c691dc97?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3f057fbb4c4e6f2b3b0437e692f371bf0a1644cfd77e630d19d1eb35c691dc97?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"John Gartrell"},"url":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/author\/jbg21duke-edu\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18004,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18001\/revisions\/18004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18001"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=18001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}