Les Elsa Goveia Prix, précédemment attribué tous les trois ans par l’Association of Caribbean Historianas, a été décerné tous les deux ans depuis 1995. Il reconnaît l’excellence dans le domaine de l’histoire des Caraïbes, et les livres suivants ont reçu cette distinction:

Diana Paton, The Cultural Politics of Obeah: Religion, Colonialism and Modernity in the Caribbean World(Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2015)

Gregory O’Malley. Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, 2014).

Kate Ramsey, The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti  (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011).

Frank Guridy, Forging Diaspora: Afro Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010).

Anne Macpherson, Women Activists and the Gendering of Politics in Belize, 1912-1982 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007).

Louis A. Perez, Jr., To Die in Cuba: Suicide and Society (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005).

Clem Seecheran, Sweetening ‘Bitter Sugar: Jock Campbell, the Booker Reformer in British Guiana 1934-1966 (Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers, 2004).

Nigel O. Bolland, The Politics of Labour in the British Caribbean: The Social Origins of Authoritarianism and Democracy in the Labour Movement (Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers, 2001).

Anne Perotin, Dumon, La ville aux Iles, la ville dans l’île: Basse-Terre et Pointe-à-Pitre Guadeloupe, 1650-1820 (Paris: Karthala, 2000).

Michael Craton and Gail Saunders, Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999).

B.W. Higman, Montpelier, Jamaica: A Plantation Community in Slavery and Freedom, 1739-1912 (Mona, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 1998).

Aline Helg, Our Rightful Share: The Afro-Cuban Struggle for Equality, 1886-1912 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995).

Thomas Holt, The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992).

Robert Paquette, Sugar is Made with Blood: The Conspiracy of La Escalera and the Conflict between Empires over Slavery in Cuba (Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1990).

Oscar Zanetti and Alejandro García, Caminos para el azúcar (Havana: Editorial de Ciencias Socialies, 1987; republished in English by Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998).

Guillermo Baralt, La Buena Vista: Estancia de frutos menores, fabrica de harinas y hacienda cafetalera, 1833-1904 (San Juan: Fideicomiso de Conservacion de Puerto Rico, 1988; republished in English by Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988).

Fransisco Scarano, Sugar and Slavery in Puerto Rico: The Plantation Economy of Ponce, 1800-1850 (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1984).

B.W. Higman, Slave Populations of the British Caribbean: 1807-1834 (Mona, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 1984; republished 1995 and 2002).