Matthew Kelly and Kai Schafft Win Outstanding Article Award

CREC Associate Matthew Kelly and Center Director Kai Schafft have won the Rabel J. Burdge and Donald R. Field Outstanding Article Award, for best general research article published in Volume 34 (2021) of Society & Natural Resources. The SNR Award Committee felt that “A ‘Resource Curse’ for Education?: Deepening Education Disparities in Pennsylvania’s Shale Gas Boomtowns” (vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 23-39) was innovative and provided the most meaningful contribution to the study of society and natural resources. Society & Natural Resources is the flagship journal of the International Association for Society and Natural Resources and one of the leading natural resources sociology journals. It publishes 12 issues per year, publishing over 80 empirical articles in 2021.