Home Newsletter Notices Officers Honors Awards Archive Features AAG Home Post to the Listserv	AAG-CAPE Student Paper Award The Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group sponsors an annual award to recognize distinguished student research. Candidates may be undergraduates, graduate students, or a recent Ph.D. within a year of the dissertation defense. The student must be a member of AAG-CAPE and the sole author. Judging criteria include the soundness and creativity of the research design and methodology; validity of conclusions; and writing quality. The paper should not exceed 8,000 words including all components: references, footnotes, abstract, illustrations, tables and any other text. This is a common length required by journals where CAPE members commonly publish. Papers exceeding 8,000 words will not be considered for the award. A prize of $100 will be awarded for the best paper. Previous awardees have found that the prestige attached to this award has made it easier to attract further funding. The award will be announced in the Cultural & Political Ecology and AAG newsletters. A copy of the paper must be submitted by March 1, 2010. Please send the paper as an attachment (PDFs work well and can include figures) to the CAPE Secretary/treasurer. The results will be announced in the Newsletter of the Cultural & Political Ecology Specialty Group and the AAG. Questions? please contact the CAPE Secretary/treasurer or President. PREVIOUS WINNERS: STUDENT PAPER AWARD 2009, Matthew Himley, Department of Geography, Syracuse University On Method and Metric: the Politics of Assessing Mining’s Environmental Impacts in Andean Peru 2008, Clark L. Gray, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Environment, Land and Rural Out-Migration in the Southern Ecuadorian Andes 2007, Arielle Levine, University of California - Berkeley Staying Afloat: State Agencies, Local Communities, and International Involvement in Marine Protected Area Management in Zanzibar, Tanzania 2006, Ryan Galt, University of Wisconsin - Madison Export Farmers’ Responses to U.S. Pesticide Residue Regulations: The Political Ecology of Regulatory Risk, Caution, and Local Interpretations in Costa Rica 2005, Claudia Radel, Clark University Converging Conservation and Women's Gender Interests in the Southern Yucatan 2004, Farhana Sultana, University of Minnesota Water Water Everywhere, but Not a Drop to Drink: Analyzing the Drinking Water Crisis in Bangladesh 2003, Lydia Breunig, Arizona Landscapes of Work to Landscapes of Leisure: Mexico's Natural Protected Areas in the Context of Neoliberalism 2002, David Carr, University of North Carolina The Event Ecology of Deforestation on the Agricultural Frontier: the Sierra de Lacandón National Park, Guatemala 2001, Paul Laris, Clark University Fire Dynamics in Mali 2001, Bradley Walters (runner-up), Rutgers University Human Ecology, Philippine Mangroves 2000, William Moseley, University of Georgia Globalization, Cotton Production and Poverty-environment Interactions in Mali 2000, Elizabeth Olson, University of Colorado NGOs in Peru 1999, Thomas Perreault, University of Colorado Indigenous Organizations and Identity Construction in Ecuadorian Amazonia 1998, Dan Klooster, University of California-Los Angeles Community Forestry in Mexico 1998, Bjorn Sletto,Kansas Political Ecology of the Nariva Swamp, Trinidad 1997, Douglas E. Deur, Louisiana State University 1996, Simon Batterbury, Clark University Planners, or Performers? Agricultural Knowledge in Burkina Faso and Niger 1996, Chris Coggins (runner-up), Louisiana State University Cultural Ecology, Landscape Ecology, and Nature Conservation in the Southeastern Chinese Uplands 1995, Annmarie Terraciano, University of Wisconsin Contesting Terrains: Tenure Reform and the Social Dimensions of Land Conflict 1995 Juanita Sundberg (runner-up), University of Texas NGO Landscapes, Conservation in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Peten, Guatemala 1991 Robert Kuhlken, Louisiana State University Settin' the Woods on Fire: The Cultural Ecology of Rural Incendiarism 1990 Karl Zimmerer, University of North Carolina Common Field Agriculture in the Central Andes: Struggles Over Production, Space and Ecology in the 16th - 20th Centuries 1990 Tom Whitmore (runner-up), Clark University Dynamic Systems Modeling in Cultural Ecology AAG-CAPE Field Study Award Students are invited to submit applications for the CAPE Field Study Award. One or two awards of up to $500, subject to approval by the CAPE Awards Committee, will be granted annually. The principal objective will be to defray travel expenses for reconnaissance field work for intended thesis or dissertation research, and the award will be oriented primarily to those without other substantial funding. The award is not intended to finance dissertation field work, rather to finance either a) research for a Master’s degree or b) reconnaissance field work that should allow a student to complete a fundable dissertation proposal. Eligible candidates must be a member of the AAG and CAPE at the time of submission. Proposals should include: 1) title page with name of applicant, address and phone number, title of intended research, starting date and duration of field reconnaissance, and location of research; 2) project description of no more than 1000 words (excluding references) of proposed travel and research, expected significance, and probable research methodology; 3) list of cited references; 4) statement of how award will be allocated, e.g. air travel, surface travel, food and lodging, etc.; 5) curriculum vitae. A copy of your proposal should reach the CAPE Secretary/treasurer, by March 1, 2010. Notification of the results will be made as soon as possible after the deadline. The results will be announced in the Newsletters of the Cultural & Political Ecology Specialty Group and the AAG. Questions? please contact the CAPE Secretary/treasurer or President. PREVIOUS WINNERS, FIELD STUDY AWARD 2009, Brittany Davis, Dept of Geography and Regional Planning, University of Arizona Unintended Ecologies of Marine Protection: Exploring livelihood adaptations and ecological outcomes in Quintana Roo, Mexico 2009, Zoe Pearson, Dept of Geography at Ohio State University Oil, Conflict and Territory in Yasuní National Park, Ecuador 2008, Leslie McLees, The University of Oregon Saving the Farm: Understanding the Functions of Urban-Ecological Spaces in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 2008, Zachary Hurwitz, The University of Texas - Austin Clean Development? The Carbon Market and the Making of Hydroelectric Dams in Brazil 2007, Darrell Fuhriman, The Pennsylvania State University Dangerous Donations: Discarded Electronics in Accra, Ghana 2006, Katharine Meehan, University of Arizona The Abject Commodity: Spatial Perceptions of Sewage in San Diego-Tijuana 2005, Andrew Roberts, CUNY-NYC Fields in Transition, Livelihoods in Transition: Agrodiversity and Incremental Change in Smallholder Managed Landscapes in Cambodia 2004, Clark Gray, North Carolina Transnational Migration and Environmental Change 2003, Bonnie Kaserman, UBC Scientific Citizenship in the U.S. Context 2002, Brian King, Colorado In the Shadow of Kruger: Community Conservation in the Former KaNgwane homeland, South Africa 2001, Elizabeth Olson, Colorado Religious NGOs in Peru 2001, Claudia Radel (runner-up), Clark Belize/Mexico 2000, Jeff Bury, Colorado Mining Impacts in Peru 2000, Ryan Galt, Madison 1999, William Moseley, Georgia Food Security in Mali 1998, Robert Daniels, Illinois Parks in East Africa 1998, Eric Carter, Madison 1997, Kathryn Pearson, Arizona Sustainable Marine Resource Use and Gender, Baja California Sur, Mexico 1997, Michael K. Steinberg, Louisiana State 1996, none? 1995, Karen Patterson, Virginia Tech Gender-based Household Variations in Attitudes, Behavior, and Practices: The Impact of Pesticide Use in Jamaican Nontraditional Agricultural Exports 1995, Andrew Stuart (runner-up), Rutgers Of Turtles and People: Conflict and Cooperation on the Pacific Coast of Nicaragua, 1983-1995
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