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...
Unlike other high-profile cases decided by the Supreme Court in its just-concluded term, granting of certiorari in National Pork Producers Council v. Ross did not immediately...
Black writing, from W.E.B. Du Bois to John Keene, is full of rebellious paratexts rearing up from the margins and backs of books—epigraphs, footnotes, endnotes, indexes, and...
An infinite exhibition fills the nave: Laurent Grasso’s ANIMA
The world of analogies and meaning takes on its full scope, resonances prevail over impoverishing...
From the practical implications of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Justice40 initiative to inequities in grant funding and salaries at environmental organizations, the 2023...
Yale Environmental Humanities is delighted to announce the six 2023 recipients of the Graduate Certificate in the Environmental Humanities sponsored by the Yale Graduate...
After 25 years leading the novel initiative they co-founded, the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology’s Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim will retire from teaching this spring,...
History major AJ Laird ’24 —this year’s Yale Library Senior Exhibit Fellow—will create and curate a 2024 exhibition tentatively titled “Logbooks and Beyond: Discovering the...
This paper considers the possibilities and limits of anticolonial resistance alongside the
transmedial artworks of Tuareg poet and artist Mahmoudan Hawad, setting what he...
The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring...
Environmental advocate, policy analyst, and entrepreneur Michel Gelobter has been appointed inaugural Executive Director of the Yale Center for Environmental Justice. ...
Plant Humanities Symposium
Saturday, April 8, 2023 (9am – 6pm)
Humanities Quad 134 (320 York Street)
Register here
Full schedule available here
Event description:...
How can you incorporate environmental justice into land conservation efforts when the challenges of entrenched hierarchal structures, economic inequity, and unequal access to...
The Yale School of the Environment kicked off its 15th annual Environmental Film Festival last week.
The showing comprised a total of six panels and screenings that took...
The Yale Energy History Project has launched a new website, “Energy Basics,” to help teach the fundamentals of energy systems in humanities and social science classes and...
Sylvia Ryerson, a PhD student in American Studies and 2021 Environmental Humanities grantee, has received the Appalachian Studies Association’s 2022 Jack Spadaro Documentary...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Today, we’re driven to distraction, our attention overwhelmed by the many demands upon it—most of which emanate from our beeping and blinking digital devices. This may seem...
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...
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...
Harvey Weiss, Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Anthropology and the Environment, has published “Pyramid building and...
Call for Papers
Spring 2023 | Yale Environmental Humanities Graduate Symposium
The Yale Environmental Humanities Program invites brief submissions of paper proposals from...
The Yale Feminist Science and Technology Collective is an undergraduate group that explores questions in the sciences and humanities. Founders of the organization—Akio...
The Yale University Art Gallery recently installed “Natural Histories,” a special rotation in the American Paintings and Sculpture galleries. Developed in consultation with...
During the thirteenth century, the Persian naturalist and judge Zakariyyāʾ Qazwīnī authored what became one of the most influential works of natural history in the world:...
In October 2022, Professors Cajetan Iheka (English) and Jonathan Howard (English and African American Studies) convened a two-day interdisciplinary Black Environmentalisms...
Beginning in the mid-1800s, Americans hauled frozen pond water, then glacial ice, and then ice machines to Hawaiʻi—all in an effort to reshape the islands in the service of...
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...
Paul Burow is a PhD student in the sociocultural anthropology and environmental studies combined program. His dissertation examines the cultural dynamics of environmental...
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...
Tomonori Sugimoto, former Postdoctoral Associate in the Environmental Humanities of East Asia, has published “Claiming Space, Land and Ecology: Mapping Geographies of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library will be holding “The World in Maps” exhibit until January 8th, 2023. The collection—showcased in flat display cases on the...
