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The student paper award recognizes outstanding scholarship by a student. Applications will be reviewed based on their originality, significance, contribution to the literature, theoretical contribution, and execution. Award winners are encouraged to share their paper at the AAG Annual Meeting or the EESG annual conference if they have not already done so.
Award
$150
Eligibility
Applicants must:
Be the sole or first author of the paper
Be a graduate student (PhD/MA/MS) at the time of submission
Be a current member of AAG and EESG at the time of application, or become an EESG member upon or prior to receipt of the award
All engagements with energy geographies topics — theoretical, conceptual, and methodological — are valid.
Submit your paper by following this link.
Submission Deadline: Sunday, December 6, 2026 at 11:59pm ET (USA)
Incomplete applications or applications arriving after the announced closing date will not be considered. EESG will notify the winners as soon as possible, and will make every reasonable effort to do so by one month before the meeting. The results will be announced in the EESG Business Meeting at the AAG Annual Meeting. Attendance at the conference is not a condition of this award.
Questions? Contact Johanna Engström (joem@ufl.edu; Co-Chair) or Tiffany Grobelski (grobelski@gustavus.edu; Co-Chair)
Current Winner:
Current Winner:
2026: Deniz Mine Öztürk, "Beneath the surface, injustice boils: Environmental justice struggles against geothermal energy in Turkey", Clark University
Honorable Mention:
Honorable Mention:
2026: Bruce Baigrie, "Stacking versus Displacement in the Mexican Energy Transition", Syracuse University
Past Winners:
Past Winners:
2025: Anna Cain, Australian National University
2024: Nazifa Rafa, Cambridge University
2023: Yue Guo, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
2022: Edgar Virgüez, Duke University
2021: Carelle Mang-Benza, University of Western Ontario
2020: Danya Al-Saleh, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2019: No Applicants
2018: Meredith DeBoom, University of Colorado at Boulder
2017: Tyler Harland, University of California at Los Angeles
2016: Trey Murphy, Texas A&M University
2015: Thomas Loder, Texas A&M University
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