| Each year, the NRRIG solicits submissions for a graduate student paper award in the area of environmental or natural resources sociology. The recipient of the 2021 NRRIG Student Paper Award is Jonathan Tollefson of Brown University for their paper (with Bindu Panikkar), Contested Extractivism: Impact Assessment, Public Engagement, and Environmental Knowledge Production in Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. Jonathan is a PhD student at the Brown University Department of Sociology and the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES). Their current research investigates the historical formation of environmental inequality and segregation, drawing on computational and spatial methods to reconstruct the distribution of 19th-century fossil fuel infrastructure in US cities over time. Jonathan is also fortunate to collaborate with the Community Engagement Core of the Superfund Research Program at IBES on several projects related to historical geography and environmental risk and privilege. Previously, they received an M.S. degree from the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont, where they worked with Dr. Bindu Panikkar on the political ecology of Northern resource extraction. Congratulations, Jonathan! |