2024 Environmental Humanities Grant Recipients

May 16, 2024
The Yale Environmental Humanities Program is excited to announce the recipients of its 2024 Environmental Public Humanities Grants. The grant program supports projects initiated by Yale students, faculty, and affiliates to engage a broad lay public on questions of culture, environment, and society. Grant recipients use diverse media including video, visual arts, radio, and written and spoken word to explore environmental issues on the other side of the world and right here in New Haven.
 
Full descriptions of projects can be found under the “Public Humanities” tab of the Environmental Humanities website. 
 
Please join us in congratulating the 2024 grant recipients! 
 
2024 GRANT RECIPIENTS
 
Perceptions of Light in the Arctic Environment
Elena Adasheva-Klein, Department of Anthropology
 
Memories of Contamination
Daniel Blokh, Yale College
 
The Peyote Coordinate: Considering the Status of the “Native American Spirituality” Religion in Prisons, Ceremonial Land Reconnection, and Cactus Conservation Challenges
Estrella V. Castillo, History of Science and History of Medicine (HSHM)
 
Searing Sands & Silent Grazing: Nomadic Life in a Changing Climate
Zaya Delgerjargal, Yale School of the Environment
 
Water over Nickel: A Documentary Showing Us What We Have To Lose
Allie Douma, Yale School of the Environment
 
Conversations in the Environmental Humanities
Abigail Fields, French Department
 
Ecological Disobedience Cartography in NY
Alberto Martinez Garcia, Yale School of Architecture
 
The Yale Environmentalist
Molly Hill, Yale College
 
Global Environment in Early Modernity
John Hoffmeyer, Comparative Literature, and Taylor Yoonji Kang, Comparative Literature and Early Modern Studies
 
Explain It Like I’m Nine
Claire Hungerford and Elise Limon, Yale School of Art
 
Changing Environments: Climate Change and Culture in Varanasi, India
Dominik Juling, Yale School of the Environment
 
Fostering Community by Redefining Waste: The Newhallville Geodesic Dome Project
Paloma Lenz, Yale College
 
Lamenting the Loss of Creations with Episcopal Bishops
Kara Lyn Moran, Yale School of the Environment
 
Resting Land
Adam Nussbaum, Yale College
 
Breadfruit in the Marquesas Islands: Exploring Climate Resilience and Food Sovereignty through an Indigenous Cookbook
Lily O’Sullivan, Yale College
 
Ruidosa, Texas: Stories of Movement and Matter
Rebecca Lea Potts, Religious Studies        
 
Saunter - Another look and listen at everyday nature
Shubhi Sharma, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology        
 
Extractions
Santana Vannarath, Yale College
 
Documenting Nuclear Imperialism in the Algerian Sahara
Hao Wang, Yale School of Architecture
 
New Haven, Revisited
Kevin Yang and Fany Kuzmova, Yale School of Architecture
 
Inhabiting Cracks: Documenting Urban Vernacular Memorials
Lucy Ruxi Zuo, Yale College
 
Read more about the projects under the “Public Humanities” tab of the Environmental Humanities website. 
 
Type: 
Public Humanities Grant