2023 Award Winners
Dr. Julie Guthman (UC-Santa Cruz) was awarded the 2023 Cultural and Political Ecology Distinguished Career Award in recognition of long-standing and notable research and professional activities.
Dr. Kai Bosworth (University of Washington) was awarded the 2023 Cultural and Political Ecology Outstanding Book Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology, as demonstrated by publication of Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century (U Minnesota Press)
Dr. Katherine Clifford (Western Water Assessment) was awarded the first Outstanding Article Award in recognition of the publication, “Natural exceptions or exceptional natures? Regulatory science and the production of rarity” in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Amani Ponnaganti (UW Madison), received the CAPE Student Paper Award for “Toxic formations: Race, place, and the politics of pollution on the banks of the Ganga”
Nohely Guzmán-Narváez (UCLA) was awarded the Scholar-Activist Award for her project “Intimate infrastructures: The affective geopolitics of China’s frontier-making in the Bolivian Amazon”
Madison Barbour (UCLA) received the Student Field Study Award for her project “Contested ecologies of California cannabis production”
2022 Award Winners
Dr. Nancy Peluso (UC-Berkeley) was awarded the 2022 Cultural and Political Ecology Distinguished Career Award in recognition of long-standing and notable research and professional activities.
Dr. Adam Romero (University of Washington) was awarded the 2022 Cultural and Political Ecology Outstanding Publication Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology, as demonstrated by publication of Economic Poisoning: Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of American Agriculture (UC Press). Dr. Abigail Neely (Dartmouth) received an Outstanding Publication honorable mention for her book, Reimagining Social Medicine from the South (Duke University Press).
Nicole Van Lier (U Toronto), received the CAPE student paper award in 2022 for “Reproductive Rationalities: Managing Industrial Water Appropriation and White Settler Authority in the St Clair-Detroit River Corridor, 1945-72”
Dr. Sam Kay (U Washington) was awarded the 2022 CAPE Scholar-Activist Award for his project “The Housing Spectrum, Temperature Extremes, and the Costs of Survival: A Needs Assessment for Unhoused Neighbors and Low-Income Renters”
Emily Melvin (U of S. Mississippi) received first place in the Student Field Study Awards for “Blue Economy and the (Re)production of Ocean Space in the Bahamas” and Rachel Arney (U Georgia) received second place for “The Politics of Environmental Knowledge in the US-Mexico Borderlands: Weaponizing Nature to Save It”
2021 Award Winners
Dr. Jaque (Jody) Emel (Clark University) was awarded the 2021 Cultural and Political Ecology Distinguished Career Award in recognition of long-standing and notable research and professional activities.
Dr. Madeleine Fairbairn (UC-Santa Cruz) was awarded the 2021 Cultural and Political Ecology Outstanding Publication Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology, as demonstrated by publication of Fields of Gold: Financing the Global Land Rush (Cornell University Press).
Julia Sizek (UC Berkeley) and Cynthia Morinville (University of Toronto) were awarded CAPE Student Paper Awards in 2021
Dr. Sara Maxwell (Independent scholar) was awarded the CAPE Scholar-Activist Award in 2021
Zach Tabor (University of North Texas) and Hernán Bianchi Benguria (University of Toronto) were awarded CAPE Field Study Awards in 2020
2020 Award Winners
Dr. Kendra McSweeney was awarded the 2020 Cultural and Political Ecology Distinguished Career Award in recognition of long-standing and notable research and professional activities.
Dr. Ethan Miller was awarded the 2020 Cultural and Political Ecology Outstanding Publication Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology, as demonstrated by publication of Reimagining Livelihoods.
Kevin Inks and Elizabeth Shoffner were awarded CAPE Student Paper Awards in 2020
Dr. Jennifer Rice was awarded the CAPE Scholar-Activist Award in 2020
Kripa Dongol and Zachary Goldberg were awarded CAPE Field Study Awards in 2020
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