Nomination deadline: January 15, 2024
The Margaret Irene FitzSimmons award in Cultural and Political Ecology was established in 2023 in memory of the late Margaret FitzSimmons, a long standing AAG member who made significant contributions to understanding the geographies of agriculture and water, political economy of environment, and nature-society theory. A faculty member in urban planning at UCLA and then in Environmental Studies at UC Santa Cruz she was a beloved mentor, teacher, and colleague. The award honors her support for early career faculty and her deep love of nature, justice, cultural and political ecology. The award is funded through an endowment from the Margaret I. FitzSimmons 2007 Trust. The purpose of the endowment is to fund an award each year to an early career scholar (within 5 years of PhD) of nature-society relations in the amount of $10,000.
Eligibility: All individual geographers are eligible to be nominated for the award who have completed a PhD in the previous 5 years (specifically with PhDs awarded in the 5 calendar years prior to the year when the award is made). They should demonstrate connection to geography through their degrees, employment or teaching, membership of geographic associations or publishing in geography journals. The award will recognize innovative work of an early career scholar in the area of nature-society relations, including research, teaching, and outreach. Nominees are encouraged but not required to be members of the AAG and CAPE. Nominations are also encouraged of early career geographers from underrepresented backgrounds and precarious positions (e.g. adjunct, visiting assistant professor, postdoc). Senior scholars are encouraged to nominate early-career scholars; self nominations will not be accepted.
Submissions guidelines: The nomination application should be submitted in a single pdf by email to CAPE at cape.aag@gmail.com and include:
- Name, email, phone number and physical address of the nominee
- A curriculum vitae for the nominee
- A 200-word statement about the nominee’s achievements that can be used to publicize the award
- A letter of nomination from two or three colleagues, individually or jointly of no more than 2 pages, describing the achievements and potential of the nominee.
- A statement of no more than one page about how the award will support the nominee’s future research, teaching or outreach activities
- A copy of an article or other publication that demonstrates the nominee’s contribution to nature-society relations and/or cultural and political ecology
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