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 (mkr...@clarku.edu) or Owen Harrington (ofh...@psu.edu).
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EESG NEWS:
The EESG’s Energy Geographies conference will be held virtually on January 25, 2025, from 11am – 3pm Eastern. Registration is open! Click here for more information.
AAG NEWS:
Geographers Take Action series from the AAG. Upcoming webinars include introductions to policy, advocacy, and media!
GEOGRAPHERS for JUSTICE in PALESTINE. A pre-AAG workshop, Sunday, March 23, 2025, Detroit, MI [location TBA]. Workshop Activities: 1pm-7:30pm. Iftar: 7:30-9:30pm. Click here to learn more.
Organizing a session or panel and interested in sponsorship from the EESG? Fill out this form here. We especially encourage submissions from members of EESG and encourage participation in EESG sponsored events during the AAG. Sponsored sessions will be shared and promoted through EESG communications. If you have any issues or questions with the form, please reach out to Nikki Luke at knl...@utk.edu.
To view the calls for papers for EESG-sponsored sessions, click this link.
· Critical political economies/ecologies of energy transitions. Organizers: Liam Fox (University of Toronto, liam...@mail.utoronto.ca)
· Energy Efficiency and Equitable Climate Action. Organizers: Laura Tozer (University of Toronto, laura...@utoronto.ca) and Emmanuel Taiwo (University of Toronto)
· Energy geographies: Repositioning and advancing the field in an era of crises. Organizers: Tom Ptak (Texas State University, t-p...@txstate.edu); Ryan Stock (Northern Michigan University, rys...@nmu.edu)
· Energy utilities in a (just) energy transition. Organizer: Salma Elmallah (sal...@asu.edu).
· Geographies of High-Speed Rail. Organizer: Michael Minn (a...@michaelminn.com)
· Interrogating the global energy transition: Green extractivism and (un)just futures. Organizers: Kopo Oromeng (University of Delaware) and Nathaniel Dolton-Thornton (University of California, Berkeley). Email: dolton-...@berkeley.edu.
· Intersectional Feminist Approaches to Climate Justice. Organizers: Deepti Chatti (University of California San Diego, dch...@ucsd.edu) and Kelsey Emard (Oregon State University)
· The JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion) Components in the Decarbonization of Net-zero Emissions Energy Systems. Organizer: Edgar Virguez (edgar....@duke.edu)
· J. Mijin Cha’s A Just Transition for All: Workers and Communities for a Carbon-Free Future (Author Meets Critics Panel). Organizer: Nikki Luke (knl...@utk.edu)
· Political Ecologies of the "Metabolic Rift."Organizers: John Kendall (Penn State) and Owen Harrington (Penn State). Contact email: jwk...@psu.edu and ofh...@psu.edu
· Public Acceptance, Justice Perspectives, and Renewable Energy Transitions for Wind Projects: Interdisciplinary Approaches among International and U.S. Case Studies. Organizers: Samuel Ayivi (University of Connecticut, samuel...@uconn.edu) and Nathaniel Trumbull (University of Connecticut)
· Public Power for the Energy Transition (Panel Session). Organizer: Elena Louder (ELO...@mailbox.sc.edu).
· Renewable energy landscape transitions: land, infrastructure, and meaning. Organizers: James McCarthy (Clark University, jamcc...@clarku.edu), Zachary Goldberg (Pennsylvania State University), Kaitlyn Spangler (Pennsylvania State University)
· Stacked Energyscapes: Fossil Fuel and Renewable Energy Entanglements in Low-Carbon Transitions. Organizers: Tyler Harlan & Jennifer Baka. Email: tyler....@lmu.edu.
· Sustainable urban systems: concepts, models, and future outlook. Organizer: Benjamin Goldstein (ben...@umich.edu)
· Teaching Energy Geographies Session & Call for Working Group Members. Tiffany Grobelski (EESG Vice-Chair extraordinaire!) is organizing an AAG panel and working group on teaching energy geographies. Click here for more information and here for a google form if you’re interested in participating.
· Towards Decarbonized Net-Zero Emissions Energy Systems: A Just Transition for the Global South. Edgar Virguez (edgar....@duke.edu)
· Trial and Error: Critical Geographies of Negative Emissions. Organizers: Dylan M. Harris & Kai Bosworth (dhar...@uccs.edu and bosw...@vcu.edu).
WORKSHOPS, TALKS, AND MORE!
· Workshop on Radical Environmental Justice. June 10-11, 2025 at Hamilton College (Clinton, NY, US). Proposals due Dec 15.
· The Energy Geographies Research Group (EnGRG) invites applications for session sponsorship for the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2025, at the University of Birmingham, and online, from Wednesday 27 to Friday 29 August 2025. To apply for EnGRG sponsorship, apply to this link by Jan 10 2025.
· The Global Conference on Economic Geography will be held at Clark University, June 4-8, 2025. Abstracts must be submitted by Jan 15, 2025. Registration is now open! Register before Dec 15 for the lowest rates.
· Sustainability Preconference: Building a Sustainable Future: Infrastructure, Behavior Change, and Environmental Justice. Feb 20, 2025 in Denver, Colorado. Early bird registration ends Jan 16. Regular registration closes Feb 5.
PhD POSITIONS:
· New PhD program in Environmental Studies at New York University! Deadline to apply is Dec 15. More information here.
· Computational Social Science: Climate change discourse on social media. University of Miami (Miami, FL, US). Deadline: Jan 8.
· Corporate capture of academic research and government agencies by fossil fuel interests. University of Miami (Miami, FL, US). Deadline: Jan 8
· Graduate Research Assistantship Position in Resource Geography/Critical Minerals. Interested GRA candidates are encouraged to send a letter of interest and CV or resume to Jackson Rose (jackso...@montana.edu) to request an informal interview. All applicants will also pursue a formal application to our graduate program, deadline Jan 15th.
· 3-year PhD studentship on ‘Analysing interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in whole systems energy research". The School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Scotland). Deadline: Jan 30
POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS:
· Postdoctoral Associate - Computational Social Science. University of Miami (Miami, FL, US). Open until filled.
· Postdoctoral Research Associate, Energising Landscapes: lands, livelihoods, and energy infrastructures in Ghana. Newcastle University (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK). Deadline: Dec 11.
· Postdoctoral Research Associate in Carbon Accounting. Oxford Net Zero and the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford (Oxford, UK). Deadline: Dec 12.
· Morton K. Blaustein Postdoctoral Fellowship. Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD, US). Deadline: Dec 13 (priority).
· Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Energy Geography. Department of Global Development and Planning, University of Agder (Kristiansand, Norway). Deadline: Jan 3.
FACULTY JOB POSTINGS:
· Associate Research Professor (Non-Tenure). Penn State (State College, PA, US). Deadline: Accepted immediately until the position is filled.
· Faculty Position in Environmental Sciences (Environment, Sustainability, and Governance focused). Jiaotong-Liverpool University (Suzhou, China). Deadline: open until filled.
· Professor in Sociology and Anthropology (Environmental Social Sciences, Human-Environment, Environmental Justice). University of Texas at El Paso (El Paso, TX, US). Deadline: open until filled
· Assistant/Associate Professor - Human Environment Interactions. Auburn University (Auburn, AL, US). Deadline: open until filled.
· Assistant/Associate Research Professor - Penn State Climate Consortium. Penn State University (University Park, PA, US). Deadline: open until filled.
· Open Rank Faculty Positions in Carbon Neutrality and Climate Change Thrust. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou, China). Deadline: open until filled.
· Assistant Professor, Environment and Sustainability. East Carolina University (Greenville, NC, US). Deadline: Dec 11 (priority).
· Assistant Professor of Geography. Montana State University (Bozeman, MT, US). Deadline: Dec 12 (priority)
· Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Interdisciplinary Environmental Justice. Cal Poly Humboldt (Humboldt, CA, US). Deadline: Dec 12 (priority)
· Assistant Professor of Sustainability, Climate Solutions, Environmental Health. Barnard College (New York City, NY, US). Deadline: Dec 15.
· Tenure-Track Assistant/Associate Professor, Sustainability Science and Innovation. Bentley University (Waltham, MA, US). Deadline: Dec 15.
· Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences. University of Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland). Deadline: Dec 20.
· Assistant Professor in Sustainability Governance. Rutgers: the State University (New Brunswick, NJ, US). Deadline: Dec 31.
· Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Human-Environment Interactions. Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL, US). Deadline: Jan 6.
· Associate Professor/Professor - Environment and Climate in Caribbean Studies. University of Toronto (Toronto, ON, Canada). Deadline: Jan 7.
· DEI-FOCUSED CLUSTER HIRE: Assistant/Associate Professor of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (San Luis Obispo, CA, US). Deadline: Jan 8 (priority)
· David Blittersdorf Professor of Sustainability Science and Policy. University of Vermont (Burlington, VT, US). Deadline: Jan 8 (priority).
· Assistant Professor position in Geography. University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, WI, US). Deadline: Jan 15 (priority).
· Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies/Geography. Montana State University - Billings (Billings, MT, US). Deadline: Jan 15 (priority).
What is this email?
As we head into the busy season for job ads and AAG calls for papers, the outreach coordinators for the Energy and Environment Specialty Group send 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, but a way to compile information and resources together in one place.