Congratulations to Grant Recipient Professor Beatriz Puente-Ballesteros for being Named as a Recipient of the 2021 J. Worth Estes Prize

The Foundation is pleased to announce that one of our grant recipients from the European Region, Professor Beatriz Puente-Ballesteros, has been named as a recipient of the 2021 J. Worth Estes Prize, established in 2000 to honor J. Worth Estes, M.D., and his valuable contributions to scholarship on the history of medicine. This year’s prize was for Professor Puente-Ballesteros’ article “Chocolate in China: Interweaving Cultural Histories of an Imperfectly Connected World,” published in Harold J. Cook, ed., Translation at Work: Chinese Medicine at the First Global Age (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2020, pp. 58-107), which focuses on the first written evidence in a non-European language (i.e. Manchu) describing the transmission of chocolate to China.

Professor Puente-Ballesteros currently serves at the Department of History, University of Macau. She is a medical doctor, sinologist, and historian of science whose research draws on sources in Eastern and Western languages to study cross-cultural interactions between Manchus, Mongolians, Han Chinese, and Jesuits in the fields of medicine, surgery, and anatomy during the late imperial era. Professor Puente-Ballesteros was a recipient of the Foundation’s Doctoral Fellowship for 2006-2007, and Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for 2009-2011. Both projects focused on medical aspects of Jesuit missions to the early Qing court. The Foundation is deeply proud of Professor Puente-Ballesteros’ outstanding accomplishments having earned recognition in the form of this great honor.