In the mid-2010s, a passionate community of Los Angeles-based storytellers, media artists, and tech innovators formed around virtual reality (VR), believing that it could...
Kate McNally is a sixth-year PhD candidate at the anthropology department. We spoke with her about her work studying the collapse of the northeast cod fisheries, post-...
Taylor Rose is a doctoral candidate in the history department focusing on resource extraction and the military-industrial complex in the American west.
What is your...
Lauren Killingsworth, MD/PhD student, has been awarded this year’s Nathan Reingold Prize from the History of Science Society for the best not-yet published article by a...
An award-winning biologist and writer applies queer feminist theory to developmental genetics, arguing that individuals are not essentially male or female.
The idea that...
Kaggie Orrick is a sixth-year PhD student in the School of the Environment. Her dissertation studies the relationships between human and wildlife land use in the Makgadikgadi...
An ambitious history of flags, stamps, and currency—and the role they played in US imperialism.
In Imperial Material, Alvita Akiboh reveals how US national identity has...
Nature and culture are perhaps the two most consistent moral categories in Western thought. And yet, despite their stability, what nature and culture represent within a given...
This article reads several works of African American literature that depict the urban roofscape as a site of contemporary fugitive praxis, made in and against the enclosures...
How a journey through Italy casts light on secrets, stereotypes, and the manipulation of information in eighteenth-century science.
In 1749, the celebrated French physicist...
The Yale Environmental Humanities Program invites brief submissions of paper proposals from Yale graduate students or postdocs for its 2023 Fall research symposium. The...
An award-winning historian’s examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their enduring significance
“Historically rich and superbly written.”—David J...
A motivational saying popular within the climate advocacy movement advises, “It’s never too late to do your best.” With respect to climate change, political representatives...
Call for Papers:
“New Perspectives in Energy History”
Yale University
Saturday, March 2, 2024
Abstract Submission Deadline: November 10, 2023
Yale University’s working...
The Yale Divinity School seeks to put its eco-theology principles into practice when it breaks ground in October on its new Living Village project. The 2-year construction...
The Yale Center for Environmental Justice will host its fifth annual Global Environmental Justice conference, “Environmental Joy,” next month, October 27th. The two-day event...
AUGUST 2023, BOSTON, MA – Oliver Lucier, of South Kingstown, Rhode Island, has been awarded the 2023 AMS/Graduate Fellowship in the History of Science.
The fellowship is...
Yale Environmental Humanities will host a welcome-back panel on “Environmental Justice and the Environmental Humanities” on Friday, September 8th, at HQ 134.
4 p.m.: Opening...
For their 2022 Public Humanities grant project, School of the Environment students Dylan Feldmeier (MEsc ‘23) and Kaggie Orrick (PhD candidate) explored human-wildlife...
School of the Environment student and 2022 Public Humanities grantee Sam Feibel ‘23 has published a photo-essay in the 2023 issue of SAGE Magazine. The essay, titled “Manheim...