2025 Award Winners 

Tarla Rai Peterson Book Award in Environmental Communication (Formerly the Christine L. Oravec Research Award in Environmental Communication (book category)

• Lynda Olman and Birgit Schneider, Global Forest Visualizations: From Green Marbles to Storyworlds (Routledge, 2024).

Stephen P. Depoe Book Chapter Award in Environmental Communication:

• Kundai Chirindo and Phaedra C. Pezzullo for “SOY PORQUE SOMOS: Touring and Planting Trees as Convivial Rhetoric on a Precarious Planet,” The Routledge Handbook on Rhetoric and Power, Nathan Crick, Ed. (Routledge. 2024), 387-398.

Christine L. Oravec Journal Article Award in Environmental Communication

• Noor Ghazal Aswad and Michael Lechuga “Led by the Land: Recovering Land Agency And Interconnectedness in Social Movement Scholarship,” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 27, no. 2 (Summer 2024): 25-43.

J. Robert Cox Award in Environmental Communication and Civic Engagement

• Shiv Ganesh, University of Colorado Boulder

Catalina de Onís Dissertation Award in Environmental Communication

• Eddie Gamboa “Border Productions of Loss: Naturalized Violence and Sensorial Solidarities from the Paso del Norte” (Northwestern)

Top Student Paper

• Emmanuel Dadzie, “Framing Africa’s Climate Future: How the African Union Constructs Climate Responsibility, Action, and Finance.”