2023 Award Winners 

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

• Jenell Johnson, Every Living Thing: The Politics of Life in Common. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023.

Stephen P. Depoe Book Chapter Award in Environmental Communication:

• Andrea M. Feldpausch-Parker and Danielle Endres, “Energy Democracy: An introduction,” In Andrea M. Feldpausch-Parker, Danielle Endres, Tarla Rai Peterson and Stephanie L. Gomez Eds., Routledge Handbook of Energy Democracy. New York, NY: Routledge, 2022, pp. 1-14.

Christine L. Oravec Journal Article Award in Environmental Communication

• Samantha Senda-Cook & Emma Frances Bloomfield, “Building Coalitions from Shared Pieties: Polyvocal Religious Environmentalism at the Asian Rural Institute,” Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, (2023). 56-78. DOI:10.1558/jsrnc.20381

J. Robert Cox Award in Environmental Communication and Civic Engagement

• Maria Blevins, Utah Valley University

Catalina de Onís Dissertation Award in Environmental Communication

• Cindy P. Rosenfeld, Vulnerable Flourishings: Building More-Than-Human Worlds with Digital Rhetoric. North Carolina State University (Dir. Victoria Gallagher)

Top Student Paper

• David Rooney, "They Want to Kill Our Cows. That Means You're Next: White Masculine Victimhood and the Green New Deal's War on Hamburgers"