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 <https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/origins-of-the-syrian-conflict/27BFB986E63812BE4BC100FA23FA869A>. 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 <https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300232158/climate-change-streets>. 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 <http://[email protected]>. 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. Sincerely, Prof. Raul Pacheco-Vega Chair of the Harold and Margaret Sprout Award Committee *Current members of the Committee* McKenzie F. Johnson University of Illinois [email protected] Manjana Milkoreit University of Oslo [email protected] Raul Pacheco-Vega Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) Sede Mexico [email protected] Miriam Prys-Hansen German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) [email protected] Hamish Van Der Ven, University of British Columbia [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/16316383-57e0-4914-ae82-a76bad3a3e44n%40googlegroups.com.
