Environmental Justice Caucus

The Environmental Justice Caucus awards the Annette Kolodny Prize. The prize, established in 2002, is awarded each year to the best environmentally-themed paper presented at the American Studies Association annual meeting. Awards are presented at the ASA annual meeting the following year. 

Annette Kolodny Prize

Submissions are currently closed for 2026.

Submissions are judged by a panel of referees from the Environmental Justice Caucus. Only papers as they were presented at the previous year’s ASA annual meeting will be considered. Please do not send book or dissertation chapters on which your paper was based, or any other longer or altered version of your paper. If you would like to include images you showed during the presentation, please incorporate them into the paper, as one document.

Please address any questions to Molly Henderson at molly.henderson<at>wisc.edu and Aanchal Saraf at asaraf<at>pratt.edu.

Previous Winners

2025: Heidi Amin-Kong, Remapping Multispecies DMZs: Visual
Poetics and Cold War Containment