Yes! A peer-reviewed comic on wildfires and climate politics! 🔥A fun project on a deadly serious topic, grounded in science and field experience. Featuring Miss Pigy, André the Giant, Harold Lasswell, and my co-author Jamie Michaels ! In open access here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
#ISA2025 terrific speed mentoring panel @isaess.bsky.social
Maria Ivanova speaking at the Distinguished Scholar Award Panel honoring Ben Cashore at ISA 2025
Maria Ivanova, who is the winner of the 2025 ESS Engaged Scholar Award and was a former student of Ben, speaking at the Distinguished Scholar Award Panel honoring Ben Cashore at #ISA2025 @isaess.bsky.social
Panelists at the 2025 Distinguished Scholar Award Panel honoring the work of Ben Cashore at ISA 2025.
The 2025 ESS Distinguished Scholar Award panel honoring the work of Ben Cashore underway in Continental C at #ISA2025. @isaess.bsky.social
Great to see so many new faces at our pre-reception ECR get together! 🍻 @isanet.bsky.social #earlycareer
📚 ESS Graduate Student Paper Award
Recipient: Viola Provost for the paper "Understanding Framing of Marine Plastic Pollution through the Lens of Tiktok"
🏅 Harold & Margaret Sprout Award
Recipient: Simone M. Müller, for the book: “The Toxic Ship, The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade”, University of Washington Press
🌟 ESS Engaged Scholar Award
Recipient: Maria Ivanova
🏆 ESS Distinguished Scholar Award
Recipient: Benjamin Cashore
🎉 During the ESS Business Meeting, we had the honor of officially congratulating the recipients of the ESS awards.
Let’s celebrate their achievements! 🎉 Join us for the Distinguished Scholar Panel at 4 PM and the Official Reception at 7 PM, both in Continental C at the Hilton. 🥂
Interested in History & Global Environmental Politics?
We have two connected panels coming up today at #ISA2025. First up this morning at 08.15, and again this afternoon at 13.45. Come and join us!
@isaess.bsky.social @hist-isanet.bsky.social
One more day until the @isaess.bsky.social grad student meet up! Join us at Bar Sotto (71 W. Monroe St.) on Tuesday, March 4 at 5pm. We will be there until the @isaess.bsky.social reception later in the evening. See you!
A great discussion this morning at #ISA2025. Thank you @isaess.bsky.social/IO for giving us a full panel of UNFCCC papers- it was a great way to highlight this aspect of global climate politics! Including @susanannsamuel.bsky.social
If you are in Chicago, please keep an eye out for exciting Graduate Student papers that deserve to be nominated for the ESS Graduate Student Paper Award.
🌍 #ISA2025 kicks off tomorrow! The Environmental Studies Section (ESS) is ready with an exciting lineup of events you won't want to miss.
👩💻Check the online program for a full schedule of ESS panels and roundtables! @isanet.bsky.social
I am very excited for #ISA2025! The pandemic + having young children + environmental concerns has led me to travel less. So I'm going to make the most of my trip to Chicago! Reach out if you want to meet! @isaess.bsky.social @isanet.bsky.social
Going to your first #ISA?
- bring snacks. Food is pricey and queues are huge.
- take breaks. It can be really full on.
- find your people.
I'm happy to chat to help people get oriented. #ISA2025
💡Don't miss out our speed mentoring session on Tuesday at 1:45pm, with amazing mentors (incl. a few not listed here!) We are very grateful they accepted our invitation!
Who is joining us for a casual gathering at ISA? 👀🍻
🌎 Check this out if you are an ECR working on global environmental politics ⬇️
💬 two focus groups will take place during ISA
We still have nominations open committees! These committees have room for grad students, early career folks, and senior folks. It's a great opportunity to meet folks in the subfield and help build a collaborative community!
🌍✨ Calling all early-career scholars! ✨🌍
Join us at #ISA2025 in Chicago for the Environmental Studies Section's Speed Mentoring Roundtable! 🚀
Connect with great mentors & get advice on:
💼 Navigating the job market
📚 Publishing your research
🎓 Teaching strategies
📢 Public engagement & more!
The Scholar Award Committee manages the nomination and award process for the Distinguished Scholar Award, the Engaged Scholar Award, and the Graduate Student Paper Award.
The Outreach Committee is responsible for getting the word out about ISA-ESS to a broader audience. In particular, the committee: seeks ensure that graduate students, junior scholars, and scholars from underrepresented populations are aware of and find benefit from becoming a part of the ESS. regularly reaches out to groups of people who might not know about or be active in ESS to provide information about the benefits of participating. creates events, activities, and services (such as special panels or other events at conferences or during the year) focused on mentoring and provision of other information or opportunities to a broad community of ESS-related scholars and teachers. solicits and considers requests for whatever ESS budget is allocated to conduct ESS events at conferences outside of the main ISA conference, with an eye toward raising the profile of ESS.
Outreach Committee — 2 positions (2-year term)
The Harold and Margaret Sprout Award Committee is responsible for selecting the annual winner of the Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for the best book in global environmental politics.
Harold and Margaret Sprout Award Committee — 3 positions (2-year term)
The Nominating Committee: seeks to ensure a slate representative reflecting the diversity within the section, including various disciplines, intellectual and methodological stances, ages and sexes, institutions, and geographic locations. solicits nominations for section officers runs the elections for section officers
Nominating Committee — 2 positions (2-year term)
The Executive Committee: appoints the office of secretary; appoints committees, appoints the section newsletter editor and webmaster; enacts budgets and dues; sets rules and tentative agenda for the annual meeting of members; conducts the business of the section at times between the annual meetings of members.
Executive Committee — 3 positions (2-year term)
It's election time for the ISA-ESS section! We have many seats open! We are welcoming self-nominations as well as nominations of others; if you nominate someone, please be sure to have their consent beforehand. Nominations due Friday, January 24, 2025, 11:59pm EST
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Student essay competition on environmental agreements 🌱📝. Submit your paper using the IEADB dataset; You could win the $500 Ron Mitchell Prize 🏆. Don't miss this opportunity! More info: www.iea.ulaval.ca/en/essay-com...
As many of us are moving to this platform, I've created a list of researchers active in global environmental governance. It might be a useful starting point, and I'll continue adding to it as I discover more go.bsky.app/7sZRvzU