Diana Montaño, assistant professor of History in Arts & Sciences received The Alfred B. Thomas Book Award from the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS), 2022 for the book Electrifying Mexico: Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021). She won the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Article Prize for Emerging Scholars for an article she published related to the book. Finally, The Urban History Association selected Montaño’s book as the best book in non-North American urban history for 2022.