Affiliate Faculty Scott Wallace Garners Top Book Awards and Returns to Amazon for New Feature Story

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Associate Professor of Journalism Scott Wallace’s memoir of images and text, Central America in the Crosshairs of War, has won the Foreword INDIES Best Book in Political & Social Sciences and a Gold IPPY Winner for Independent Publisher Book Awards for best History Book. Scott’s book is also an International Latino Book Awards finalist in two categories, Political/Current Events and History.

In July, Scott returned to Brazil’s Javari Valley Indigenous Territory, the setting for his bestselling book, The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon’s Last Uncontacted Tribes. His story about his return to the Javari for the first time in 23 years and the old friends he met there will appear in the October issue of Americas Quarterly.

ELIN faculty affiliate Scott Wallace, center, with Indigenous leaders Beto Marubo, left, and Eliesio Marubo, right, in the Javari Valley Indigenous Territory, Amazon Rainforest, Brazil, July 2025.
ELIN faculty affiliate Scott Wallace, center, with Indigenous leaders Beto Marubo, left, and Eliesio Marubo, right, in the Javari Valley Indigenous Territory, Amazon Rainforest, Brazil, July 2025.