EESG Outreach Digest
Maddy Kroot
Hello all!
Here’s the latest Outreach Digest from the Energy and Environment Specialty Group (EESG). Please continue sharing things directly with the listserv and AAG Knowledge Community pages! This digest email is not meant to replace direct postings, and we’ll be pulling from those emails as we put together the digest.
You can also submit items directly by filling out this form or emailing Maddy Kroot (maddy...@wisc.edu).
You can also follow the Energy and Environment Specialty Group on our Bluesky account (@aag-eesg.bluesky.social) or on our website (https://www.eesg.org/home).
EESG News:
· EESG is excited to announce the 5th Annual Energy Geographies Conference, to be held virtually on Saturday, September 26th, 2026 from 12 PM-4 PM US Eastern Time. This half-day event will include a keynote, thematically organized paper presentations, and a panel discussion. We welcome abstract submissions on any topic or theme within energy geography. This year, given its current salience, we especially encourage submissions and discussions related to geopolitics of energy.
o If you wish to submit a paper presentation abstract for consideration, the abstract submission portal can be found here.
o Note: Non-Members of the AAG will need to create a free login on www.aag.org to register for the event and access the submission portal.
· Have a recent publication you’d like to share with the EESG listservs? Fill out this link! We’ll be populating a new section of the Digest with recent publications (see below). For our purposes, “recent” means publications since the beginning of 2025.
· [NEW] Thank you to the 23 EESG members who completed the EESG Outreach Digest Survey – both for your time and for your very positive and helpful comments! The survey results are available upon request. Highlights and actions we are taking in response:
o 22/23 respondents said the current biweekly frequency was appropriate, so we will keep to this rhythm (though the digest may pause later in the summer if there are fewer things to share)
o One respondent noted that “open until filled” positions often lingered long past the point that they were most likely filled. Rather than only removing them after the job posting has been officially taken down by the hiring entity, they will now be removed from the Digest after two months (or once the posting is taken down by the hiring entity, whatever comes first).
o Multiple respondents suggested adding more non-academic job postings but recognized that could involve much more work to curate. In response, we have added a section to the Digest that lists different non-academic climate, energy, and environmental job boards, so folks can filter job postings and set up alerts based on their own criteria.
o We have added a Recent Publications section to the Digest, which also links to a spreadsheet on our website
o We added instructions to the bottom of the Digest on how to post to the EESG listservs and clarified the instructions on the website.
[NEW] Do you do work on energy-related topics in Latin America? Take this survey (available in both Spanish and Portuguese) from Duilio Calcagno (CONICET), looking at interdisciplinarity and knowledge translation among social scientists working (in whole or in part) of energy-related topics. The survey will remain open until July 6.
Funding Opportunities and awards:
· Eric Wolf Prize for Best Article-Length Paper. From the Political Ecology Society (PESO). Submission deadline: Sept 20.
o The competition involves a feature presentation of the paper during the annual meeting of the Society of Applied Anthropology (either virtual or in person), publication in the Journal of Political Ecology, and a $750 award!
o To be eligible for the competition, authors must be current Master’s or Ph.D. students OR recent Master’s or Ph.D. degree recipients, no more than two years past the completion of their degree. Multiple authored papers are considered as long as the first author meets the above criteria. We cannot accept papers that are already under review at a journal.
o Please anonymize your submission and use the style guidelines provided on the Journal of Political Ecology webpage:
CALL FOR PAPERS:
· Call for Papers for Proposed Theme Issue on Water and Energy Transition in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. Abstract and short bio submission due July 10.
· Social Sciences Advancement Dialogue Network (SSADN) Call for Abstracts for the Research, Practice & Innovation in Social Sciences 2026 International Online Conference. Conference date: Sept 15 (virtual). Abstract deadline: July 31
· Special Issue of Energy Policy: The Geopolitics of the Energy Transition – A European Perspective. Manuscript deadline: Sept 1.
WORKSHOPS, TALKS, AND MORE!
· Webinar: What do communities in the Mid-Atlantic think of offshore wind? Speakers: Jeremy Firestone, Nina David, Emma Korein, Zoē Ketola, Lucia Paye-Layleh (all at University of Delaware). Talk to be held on July 1st from 12:00 - 1:00 PM EDT, over Zoom. Click here to register.
PhD POSITIONS:
· PhD: Understanding the politicization of university knowledge and education. Utrecht University (Utrecht, Netherlands). Deadline: July 27.
· [NEW] 1-2 PhD students in human/economic geography. Lund University (Lund, Sweden). Deadline: Aug 28.
POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS:
· [NEW] Postdoctoral Scholar. Stanford University (Stanford, CA US). Deadline: Open until filled.
· High Meadows Environmental Institute Environmental Fellows. Princeton University (Princeton NJ, US). Deadline: Nov 2
FACULTY JOB POSTINGS:
· Assistant Director of Sustainability/Program Coordinator of Environmental Studies. Colgate University (Hamilton NY, US). Deadline: Open until filled.
· Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability Admissions Associate. Bard College (Annandale-On-Hudson, NY, US). Deadline: Open until filled.
· Assistant Associate Professor. Elizabeth City State University (Elizabeth City, NC, US). Deadline: Open until filled.
· [NEW] Teaching Assistant Professor, Environmental, Energy and Land Management. West Virginia University (Morgantown WV, US). Deadline: Open until filled.
· [NEW] Instructor/Assistant/Associate Professor, Human Geography/ GIS (One Year Temporary). Worcester State University (Worcester MA, US). Deadline: Open until filled.
· [NEW] Lecturer in Geopolitics. Kings College London (London, UK). Deadline: June 29.
· Full professorship in Sustainability, Knowledge and Society (W2/W3). Leuphana University of Lüneburg (Lüneburg, Germany). Deadline: July 7.
[NEW] Interested in non-academic jobs? Check out these resources and sign up for alerts based your own interests and qualifications! (Know of other job boards or listservs we should add? Let us know!)
· [NEW] Climate Jobs
· [NEW] Ed’s Clean Energy & Sustainability Jobs List
· [NEW] Good Green Careers
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
This section of the EESG Outreach Digest showcases recent publications by EESG members or generally of interest to the membership. Click here to submit recent publications. For the debut of this section, we are considering “recent” to include any publications published since the beginning of 2025. A link to the Google Sheet of recent publications can be found here and on the EESG website.
Note: Publications marked [NEW] have been submitted to the EESG’s publications list since its last installment.
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
· Arent, W., Pradhan, B., Grimley, M., & Chan, G. (2026). Redlined and disconnected: Historic housing discrimination and modern-day energy insecurity disparities in Minnesota’s Twin Cities. Energy Research & Social Science, 135, 104689. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2026.104689
· Louder, E., Harrison, C., & Luke, N. (2025). Picking up the slack: Faith-based organizations, informal support networks and energy insecurity, poverty, and vulnerability in the southeastern United States. Energy Research & Social Science, 129, 104350. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.104350
· Öztürk, D. M. and Aydın C. I. 2025. "Beneath the Surface, Injustice Boils: Environmental Justice Struggles Against Geothermal Energy in Turkey." Energy Research & Social Science 130: 104412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.104412.
· White-Nockleby, C., Louder, E., & Prieto, M. (2026). An uncooperative transition: Material contradictions in Chile's renewable energy boom. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 9(1), 220-242. doi/pdf/10.1177/25148486251383795
What is this email?
The Energy and Environment Specialty Group sends out a digest email every two weeks with events or opportunities we think might be of interest to the specialty group. This email is not meant to be an exhaustive list or to replace regular messaging on the EESG listserv, but as a way to compile information and resources together in one place.
How do I send emails to the EESG listservs?
The EESG operates two listservs: the EESG Knowledge Community (for members with active AAG memberships) and the EESG Google Group (open to anyone regardless of AAG membership status). For more information on how to join or send emails to these listservs, please see these instructions on the EESG website. To submit items to the Outreach Digest, please fill out this form or email Maddy Kroot (maddy...@wisc.edu).