2021 Sprout Award Nominations
McKenzie Johnson
Dear Colleagues,
The 2020 Harold & Margaret Sprout awardees were announced at the recent International Studies Association Annual Convention in Las Vegas. They are:
Award winner: Marwa Daoudy (Georgetown) for The Origins of the Syrian Conflict. Published by Cambridge University Press.
Michael Méndez (University
of California, Irvine) for Climate Change from
the Streets: How Conflict and Collaboration Strengthen the Environmental
Justice Movement. Published by Yale University Press.
Many thanks to all who have nominated books! The reputation of the Award is built on the high quality of your publications and your commitment to work with important scholars in the field.
Today I write to encourage you to submit books you have published
or released during 2020-2021
for consideration for the Harold & Margaret Sprout Award, which
was established in 1972 and named in honor of two pioneers in the study of
international environmental problems. The Award is given each year for the best
book in Environmental Studies by the International Studies Association (ISA),
the world’s largest and most prominent scholarly organization dedicated to
international studies. The Award is sponsored by the Environmental Studies
Section, and is given to the best book in the field, one that makes a
contribution to theory and interdisciplinarity, shows rigor and coherence in
research and writing, and offers accessibility and practical relevance.
Nominated books should address some aspect of one or more
environmental, pollution or resource issues from a broadly international or
transnational perspective, including works in (for example) global, interstate,
transboundary, North-South, foreign policy, comparative or area studies.
Environmental subjects of books can include (for example) environmental law,
diplomacy, transnational activism, natural resource use, global change,
sustainable development, biodiversity, transboundary pollution control, and the
like. For a list of previous winners of the award, please visit the website of
ISA’s Environmental Studies Section at http://environmental-studies.org/?page_id=545.
Nominated works must be published during 2020 or 2021. Books with a 2022 copyright date are
welcome provided that they are released by the end of 2021 and review copies can be sent by the
nomination deadline. Each publisher may nominate more than one book, and books
nominated last year can be re-nominated. The committee members will begin
reading the books as soon as they arrive. The Committee must complete its
review and reach a decision by Fall 2021; the 2022 award will be presented at the annual meeting of
the ISA in Nashville, TN Mar. 30 - Apr. 2, 2022. Therefore, we need to
receive notice of your nominations and receive copies of the
nominated works by August 1, 2021. (Please note that committee members are
located in five different countries, which will require appropriate shipping
arrangements so that books reach us on time.)
Should you have a book or books you would like to nominate, please
submit a copy of the book to EACH member of the Award Committee. In order
to obtain the mailing addresses of the current committee members, please
contact the Sprout Committee chair Raul Pacheco-Vega. Please include a note or letter
with the book(s) indicating that they are nominated for the Sprout Award
so that we can distinguish them from other books we receive.
Thank you very much for your nomination(s). Please contact me if
you have any questions about the award or the process.
Prof. Raul Pacheco-Vega
Chair of the Harold and Margaret Sprout Award Committee
mf...@illinois.edu
Manjana Milkoreit
University of Oslo
manjana....@sosgeo.uio.no
Raul Pacheco-Vega
Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) Sede Mexico
raul.pac...@flacso.edu.mx
Miriam Prys-Hansen
German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
Miria...@giga-hamburg.de
Hamish Van Der Ven,
University of British Columbia
hamish.v...@ubc.ca