ISA 2023 Environmental Studies Section Award winners!

[Grabs Janina]

Dear all,

 

The Outreach Committee of the Environmental Studies Section of the International Studies Association takes great pleasure in sharing the winners of the 2023 ESS Awards! They are as follows:

 

The 2023 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for the best book in the field goes to:

• African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics by Cajetan Iheka (Duke University Press)

We are also excited to note that Professor Cajetan will be giving a talk on his book during the newly created “Author’s Corner” in the Exhibit Hall on the day that he receives the award.

 

An Honorable Mention for the Sprout Award was also awarded to:

• Michael W. Manulak's Change in Global Environmental Politics - Temporal Focal Points and the Reform of International Institutions (Cambridge University Press)

 

The 2023 ESS Graduate Student Paper Award will be shared by two papers:

• Greenstein, Gus. Frozen Assets: Personnel Allocation and Deforestation Control in Brazil’s Protected Areas

• Arias and Schwartz. Think Globally, Act Locally: The Determinants of Local Policymakers’ Support for Climate Policy

 

The 2023 ESS Distinguished Scholar Award will go to:

• Aseem Prakash, University of Washington

 

For those of you going to ISA, please join us to celebrate the award winners at the following events:

• Thursday, March 16, 11-12, Exhibition Hall, Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth: (Publisher's Corner) African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics
• Thursday, March 16, 12:30-1:30, Tidan B, Montreal Marriot Chateau Champlain: Environmental Studies Section Business Meeting
• Thursday, March 16, 16:00-17:45, Tidan B, Montreal Marriott Chateau Champlain:  Environmental Studies Section Distinguished Scholar Roundtable in Honor of Aseem Prakash
• Thursday, March 16, 19:30-20:30, Tidan C, Montreal Marriot Chateau Champlain: Environmental Studies Section (ESS) Reception Honoring Aseem Prakash

 

We also take the opportunity to encourage Early Career Scholars to join us in the ESS Speed Mentoring Roundtable, where mentors will provide advice on academic publishing, teaching, the job search, and outreach activities. This will take place on Thursday, March 16, from 13:45 – 15:30 at Samuel C, Montreal Marriott Chateau Champlain (between the Business Meeting and Distinguished Scholar Roundtable).

 

Best wishes, and hoping to see many of you in person in a bit more than a week’s time,

 

The ISA ESS Outreach Committee

Lily Hsueh, Devon Cantwell-Chavez, Tom Jamieson, and Janina Grabs