Environment and Technology Section-
Call for Nominations for 2007 Awards

Fred Buttel Distinguished Contribution Award

The Distinguished Contribution Award is given each year to a section member for outstanding service, innovation, teaching, and publication in the sociology of the environment and technology. Nominations for this award must be received by May 1, 2007. To nominate a section member for this award, please send a letter of nomination describing the nominee's contribution to the field, accompanied by a copy of the nominee's CV, to the chair of the award committee: Craig R. Humphrey ( ch8@psu.edu): 227 W. Prospect Ave., State College, PA (16801) OR 215 Oswald Tower, PSU, University Park, 16802

Marvin E. Olsen Student Paper Certificate

This certificate is given annually to recognize an outstanding graduate student-authored paper accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the ASA (The paper can be presented at any session or roundtable at ASA, not only an Environment and Technology Section session). The certificate is announced at the Section business meeting and the student will be presented a certificate acknowledging the honored paper. The recipient receives $200 to help defray the cost of participating in the Meeting. Graduate students, and their advisors on their behalf, are encouraged to submit papers to this competition. The deadline for submitting papers is May 1, 2007. Send three copies to:

David Pellow

Associate Professor
Department of Ethnic Studies, 0522
Director, California Cultures in Comparative Perspective
University of California, San Diego
Social Science Building, Room 201
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA  92093-0522

dpellow@ucsd.edu

Outstanding Publication Award

This award recognizes outstanding research in the sociology of the environment and technology. In alternate years we consider research published either in book or article form. This year the committee will consider series of thematically-related articles published during the last six years. The committee will consider self-nominations as well as nominations made by people other than the authors. It will not consider nominations made by publishers. To be eligible for consideration, please send 3 copies of the works or works, along with a nomination letter, by May 1, 2007 to:

David Pellow

Associate Professor
Department of Ethnic Studies, 0522
Director, California Cultures in Comparative Perspective
University of California, San Diego
Social Science Building, Room 201
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA  92093-0522

dpellow@ucsd.edu
 

The Robert Boguslaw Award for Technology and Humanism

This award is given to a doctoral student or young investigator (who has obtained the Ph.D. in the past five years) whose paper or article that addresses technology and human affairs, social action and social change, conflicts over values, or work that proposes innovative solutions to emerging social issues associated with technology. The honored work should address the concerns of ordinary people, rather than reflecting organizational or institutional agendas. Unpublished papers or articles published within the last two years are eligible. Candidates may either submit their own work or be nominated by someone else. The deadline for submitting papers is May 1, 2007.

Please send three copies of the nominated work, along with a nomination letter to:

J. Timmons Roberts
(2006-07) James Martin 21st Century Professor
Environmental Change Institute
Oxford University Centre for the Environment
Dyson Perrins Building, South Parks Road
Oxford, OX1 3QY England
timmons.roberts@ouce.ox.ac.uk

Alternate address:

J. Timmons Roberts

(ongoing) Professor of Sociology
The College of William and Mary
Williamsburg  VA 23185 USA
jtrobe@wm.edu  http://faculty.wm.edu/jtrobe

If you have any questions about eligibility, please contact the award committee chair Capek@hendrix.edu.

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