Graduate students are invited to participate in the ESS Graduate Student Paper Award Competition sponsored by the Environmental Studies Section (ESS) of ISA. The award was established in 2011 to recognize the best paper with an environment-related theme presented at the ISA Annual Convention.
Award Details
For a listing of previous awardees, please see the Past Award Recipients page.
Submission/Nomination
- Currently, nominations are being requested for papers that were presented at the 2012 ISA annual convention in San Diego. Panel chairs and discussant and paper presenters please make nominations!
- Graduate students may nominate their own papers as well.
- Graduate student papers that have been co‐authored with professors are not eligible for nomination for the best graduate student paper.
- Nominations should be sent by e-mail to ESS Chair Pam Chasek (pam@iisd.org).
- To enter the competition, e-mail a copy of your paper (in MS Word or PDF format) by no later than June 1st to the chair of the award committee.
Prize
- The awardee receives a $100 prize plus consideration for publication by the journal Global Environmental Politics
Award Committee
The Award Committee consists of the Executive Committee of the ESS plus the ESS representative to the journal, Global Environmental Politics. The ESS Chair appoints a member of the Executive Committee to chair the award committee.
The Committee is responsible for notifying the recipient of the award.
Pam ChasekCHAIR | APR 2012 - APR 2013 | |
David DownieMEMBER | APR 2012 - APR 2013 |
Chuks OkerekeMEMBER | APR 2012 - APR 2013 |
Susan ParkMEMBER | APR 2012 - APR 2013 |
Simon NicholsonMEMBER | APR 2013 - APR 2014 |
Erika WeinthalMEMBER | APR 2013 - APR 2014 |
Fariborz ZelliMEMBER | APR 2013 - APR 2014 |

