NCA ANNOUNCEMENTS: Environmental Communication Division Award Winners

Carlos A. Tarin, catarin@utep.edu

I’m writing to announce the 2024 award winners for the Environmental Communication Division. We had a fantastic slate of nominations this year and I am excited to recognize the following individuals for their excellent work:

Tarla Rai Peterson Book Award in Environmental Communication

Phaedra C. Pezzullo, Beyond Straw Men: Plastic Pollution and Networked Cultures of Care (University of California Press, 2023)

Christine L. Oravec Research Award in Environmental Communication

S. Marek Muller, David Rooney, and Cecilia Cerja. “Long Live the Liver King: Right-wing Carnivorism and the Digital Dissemination of Primal Rhetoric,” published in Frontiers in Communication in 2024. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1338653

J. Robert Cox Award in Environmental Communication and Civic Engagement

Mark Terry, York University

Catalina de Onís Dissertation Award in Environmental Communication

Christine Gilbert, “Extending the Climate Change Risk Perception Model in the United States: First-Person and Third-Person Effects”

I would like to extend my thanks to the many people who served on this year’s award committee: Joy Hart, Mark Glantz, David Berube, Mary LeRouge, Jenell Johnson, Josh Smith, Richard Besel, Mollie Murphy, Emma Bloomfield, and Haley Schneider. If you are interested in serving on next year’s awards committee, please let me know.

I hope you will be able to join us at our ECD business meeting in November to celebrate our award winners. Congratulations to all!