ISA Awards & Prizes

Welcome to the ISA Awards website. ISA offers several awards given to recognize outstanding scholarly contributions to the field of international studies. These awards have different committees, nominating procedures and application deadlines, and they recognize papers, books, achievement and service to the international studies community. Please see the menu links on the left for more information on these awards.

Awards are announced or presented during the ISA Annual Convention. Several Regions and Sections present awards during their Business Meetings or Receptions; others are presented during the ISA General Business Meeting and Awards Ceremony.

The type of awards presented include graduate student paper awards, faculty paper awards, book awards, service awards, and distinguished scholar awards. Award certificates, plaques, and monetary awards are coordinated through ISA Headquarters. 

The Awards Coordinator for 2007-2008 is Ishara Smith (telephone 520-626-0216 or email isa@u.arizona.edu). Each award committee chair is responsible for sending complete award information to ISA Headquarters prior to the Annual Convention.

Award News

Sprout Award

The Harold and Margaret Sprout Award was established in 1972 and named in honor of two pioneers in the study of international environmental problems. The award is given annually 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.

This year’s winner is: David Humphreys: Logjam: Deforestation and the Crisis of Global Governance (Earthscan, 2006).

The Graduate Student Paper prize this year (for a paper from last year’s conference) goes to: Graeme Auld (Yale University), “The Origins and Growth of Social and Environmental Certification in the Coffee Sector.”

If you know of a paper – or presented on yourself – at the 2008 Convention that should be considered for this award, please let Beth DeSombre know (edesombr [AT] wellesley [DOT] edu).