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This award supports students' travel or data acquisition expenses related to ongoing or future dissertation research activities. The award will be oriented primarily to those without other substantial funding.
Award
Up to $800 per award. The EESG Awards Committee may grant one or more awards in this category, subject to available funds.
Eligibility
Applicants 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
Be a graduate student (MS/MA/PhD) - Use funds on fieldwork within one year of receiving funds
Submission instructions
Please submit the following as PDF files:
Project Description (500–1,000 words), including: project description, budget plan for the award money, timeline, and conceptual and/or applied significance to the field of energy geographies
Current CV
Applications should be submitted using 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.
After funds have been distributed, awardees may be asked to provide information (e.g., narratives, photos, social media posts) from their fieldwork experiences to help publicize the award.
Questions? Contact Johanna Engström (joem@ufl.edu; Co-Chair) or Tiffany Grobelski (grobelski@gustavus.edu; Co-Chair)
Current Winners:
Current Winners:
2026: Sebastián Solarte-Caicedo, "The Long Life of Off-Grid Energy Commons: Insights from Thirty-Five Years of Electropalmor", University of California, Los Angeles
Past Winners:
Past Winners:
2025: Bruice Baigrie, "Energy Transitions through the Fortunes of Labor: The cases of South Africa and Mexico," Syracuse University
2024: Juan Felipe Riano Landazabal, "Harvesting Energy in Times of Peace: Coping with Bioenergy's Geographies in Post-Conflict Colombia," University of California Los Angeles
2023: Mehrnush Golriz, "Lithium Governance and Lawscapes in Chile's Atacama Salt Flats," University of California Los Angeles
2022: Caroline Griffith, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Erik Post, University of British Columbia; and Adam Gallaher, University of Connecticut
2021: Saumya Vaishnava, "An island entire of itself: infrastructure, imaginaries, and the making of Mumbai’s electricity grid," Penn State University,
Elena Louder, "Renewing Injustice? A multi-scalar examination of solar energy development in Chile’s Atacama Desert," University of Arizona
2020: Sara Peterson, University of Buffalo; and Andrea Furnaro, University of California, Los Angeles
2019: James Rhatigan, University of British Columbia; and Saumya Vaishnava, Pennsylvania State University
2018: Arica Crootof, University of Arizona; and Marissa Bell, University of Buffalo
2017: Tyler Harlan, University of California, Los Angeles; and Trey Murphy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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