Annette Kolodny Prize, 2026

The Environmental Justice Caucus of the American Studies Association invites submissions for this year’s 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. 

  • Please submit the environmentally-themed paper you presented at ASA 2025.
  • To nominate someone else’s paper, please send the author’s name and email address to any one of the referees below and we will contact them.

Submissions are judged by a panel of referees from the Environmental Justice Caucus. If you would like your environmentally-themed paper from the ASA 2025 annual meeting to be considered for the Kolodny Prize, please send the paper as an email attachment (MS Word preferred) to the referees listed below. Your paper must be received by 11:59 pm Eastern Time on Friday, February 20th. 

Only papers as they were presented at the 2025 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 send your submission to the following referees:

Please feel free to circulate this announcement to colleagues, students, and other lists, and to address any questions to Molly Henderson at molly.henderson@wisc.edu and Aanchal at asaraf@pratt.edu. We hope to complete the judging and announce the winner sometime in March 2026.