Borderlands Curanderos2022 Americo Paredes Award, Center for Mexican American Studies at South Texas College A historical exploration of the worlds and healing practices of two curanderos (faith healers) who attracted thousands, rallied their communities, and challenged institutional powers. Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo were curanderosfaith healerswho, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, worked outside the realm of "professional medicine,"