EESG Best Student Paper AWARD

The student paper award provides a cash award of $300 to recognize outstanding research scholarship. The cash prize is awarded during the business meeting of the EESG at the AAG annual meeting. 

Qualifications: 

• Multi-authored papers are acceptable, but the student must be the lead author of the paper

• The candidate must be an enrolled graduate student at the time of submission

• Eligible candidates must 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 treatments (theoretical, conceptual, methodological) of energy geography topics are valid

• The candidate must present the paper at that year's AAG national conference

Review Criteria: 

• Originality

• Significance of topic

• Contribution to literature

• Theoretical contribution

• Execution (including analysis and clarity of expression)

Submission instructions: 

• Submission deadline February 25th, 2024 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time

• Submit your paper by following this link

• For question, contact EESG Secretary/Treasurer Dr Arica Crootof (arica.crootof@umwestern.edu)

Current Winner:

2024: Nazifa Rafa, Cambridge University

Past Winners:

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