Awards

 The prize is named in honor of Professor Holmes Rolston III, for his key work in developing the field of environmental philosophy. Papers are invited on all aspects of environmental philosophy, and the call extends to include environmentally-related papers with a strong theoretical component. This award is limited to early career scholars: graduate students and those whose Ph.D. was conferred in the past 5 years. 

Past Award Winners:

2024 – Corinne Persinger

2023 – Charles Hayes

2020 – Dan C. Shahar

To help build a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive field of environmental ethics, the International Society for Environmental Ethics and Ethics & the Environment journal seek to highlight scholarship in environmental justice within environmental philosophy. To this end, we established an award in 2020 in recognition Dr. Victoria Davion, who made critical contributions to interdisciplinary work in feminist and environmental ethics and served as founding editor of the journal, Ethics & the Environment.

The award honors scholars engaged in intersectional work that describes, considers, or responds to overlapping forms of exclusion, discrimination, or injustice – such as the interplay of race, class, and gender in environmental injustice, or the relationship between colonialism and climate inequities.  Eligible candidates include those whose work may be characterized, for example, as examining relations between environmental philosophy and feminist and gender studies, critical race theory, Indigenous studies, disability studies, or other areas that center questions of environmental (in)justice. 

Past Award Winners:

2022 – Nancy Tuana

2021 – Melanie Harris

2020 – Chris Cuomo (inaugural award)

With this award, ISEE aims to recognize public philosophers working in environmental ethics and philosophy, broadly construed.  We seek nominees who are helping to broaden the reach of environmental philosophy, and whose teaching, research, or service involve engagement and interaction with broader publics. This may be exemplified in published work or engagement in environmental issues of public importance.

The award is open to scholars at any stage of career and may honor a singular work or engagement of importance, or a longer pattern of involvement over a career.

Past Award Winners:

2025 – Laura García-Portela

2024 – Eugene Chislenko

2023 – Justin Donhauser

2022 – Christopher Preston

2021 - Kian Mintz-Woo

2020 – Keith Hyams

2019 – Paul Thompson

2017 – Andrew Light