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March 17, 2023
Yale University professor Alan Mikhail, an acclaimed author and scholar in Middle Eastern and environmental history and chair of Yale’s Department of History, will...
February 15, 2023
Cajetan Iheka, Professor of English and Yale Environmental Humanities steering committee member, has been named the new director of the Whitney Humanities Center. Read more...
February 12, 2023
​​Maria Trumpler teaches Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies at Yale and is a Board member of the Dudley Museum. She is a recent Environmental Humanities grant recipient who...
February 6, 2023
Registration for the 7th Annual Graduate Conference in Religion and Ecology (GCRE), held on March 3rd, 2023 at Yale Divinity School, is now open! The GCRE is an...
January 27, 2023
The Yale Institute of Sacred Music (ISM) recently launched the Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture Initiative, a project that seeks to foster dialogue and disseminate...
January 26, 2023
Lav Kanoi is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology and Yale School of the Environment. Previously, he was a researcher and teacher at Jadavpur and Ashoka...
January 25, 2023
Harvey Weiss, Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Anthropology and the Environment, has published “Pyramid building and...
January 25, 2023
Call for Papers Spring 2023 | Yale Environmental Humanities Graduate Symposium   The Yale Environmental Humanities Program invites brief submissions of paper proposals from...
January 20, 2023
The Yale Feminist Science and Technology Collective is an undergraduate group that explores questions in the sciences and humanities.  Founders of the organization—Akio...
January 19, 2023
The Yale University Art Gallery recently installed “Natural Histories,” a special rotation in the American Paintings and Sculpture galleries. Developed in consultation with...
January 5, 2023
Alan Mikhail, the Chace Family Professor of History, has published an article in the Autumn 2022 issue of Critical Inquiry titled “What the World Says: The Ottoman Empire,...
December 19, 2022
In October 2022, Professors Cajetan Iheka (English) and Jonathan Howard (English and African American Studies) convened a two-day interdisciplinary Black Environmentalisms...
December 8, 2022
George Papamatthaiakis is a graduate student in the Master of Environmental Design program at the Yale School of Architecture. He is a human geographer and architect who has...
December 1, 2022
Paul Burow is a PhD student in the sociocultural anthropology and environmental studies combined program.  His dissertation examines the cultural dynamics of environmental...
November 22, 2022
Edward S. Cooke, Jr.,  the Charles F. Montgomery Professor of American Decorative Arts, has published Global Objects: Toward a Connected Art History with Princeton University...
November 17, 2022
Kristy Ferraro is a PhD candidate working with the Bradford and Schmitz labs at the Yale School of the Environment. As a member of the environmental humanities program, she...
November 10, 2022
Maximilian Chauolideer graduated from Yale in 2021. He is currently an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Leading Edge Fellow with Project Equity, a non-profit...
November 3, 2022
Cheng Li graduated from Yale in 2022 with a doctorate in East Asian Languages and Literatures. He is presently an assistant professor of Chinese Studies at Carnegie Mellon...
October 31, 2022
What will happen to the legal rights of the more than 200 million people who are likely to become climate refugees by 2050? How can we ensure that natural climate solutions...
October 7, 2022
The Yale University Art Gallery is presenting an exhibition of past and recent work by Fazal Sheikh, Exposure (2017–22) and Erasure (2010-15), from September 9th, 2022 to...