Professor Rob Nixon (English) was awarded two prizes this week for his book, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor.
The International Studies Association chose Slow Violence as the winner of the Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for 2011. The prize goes to the best book in international environmental studies, a book that makes an "original contribution to theory and interdisciplinarity, shows rigor and coherence in research and writing, and offers accessibility and practical relevance."
Nominations were solicited from 170 publishers. This is the first time in the forty years of the award that it has gone to a scholar from the humanities.
Slow Violence also won the Transdisciplinary Humanities Book Award for 2011. The award goes to the book, published anywhere in the world that "best exemplifies transdisciplinary, socially engaged humanities-based scholarship on a topic of social or cultural importance—past, present, or future."
The prize is an initiative of the Institute for Humanities Research at Arizona State University.