Eleanor Morgan, LAC MPhil Student, wins the the SLAS Masters Prize!

Ellie Morgan, a second-year MPhil student at the Latin American Centre, has been awarded the 2025 Masters Essay Prize by the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS). Her winning essay, “Remoulding the Past: Fuerza Popular's Strategy for Reducing Authoritarian Baggage as a Personalistic Authoritarian Successor Party,” builds on James Loxton’s theory of Authoritarian Successor Parties to explore how Fuerza Popular reworks the memory of Alberto Fujimori’s authoritarian rule to secure political legitimacy in democratic Peru.

The essay emerges from Ellie’s broader research in Peruvian memory studies, with a particular focus on contested narratives of authoritarianism.

She has also been selected to present her thesis at the Memory Studies Association’s annual conference in Prague on 16 July 2025, where she will join the panel “Contested Memory of Authoritarianism, Conflicts, and Critical Junctures.”