Tamar Novick has been awarded the Political Ecology Society’s 2015 Eric Wolf Prize for the best article-length paper based on dissertation research.  Her article, “Getting their Goat: Disturbing Creatures and Capricious Attempts to Change the East” was aswarded for her use of "substantive archival research to make an innovative contribution to discussions of environment and power."  The paper has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Political Ecology.

The award includes a prize of $500.