On October 11th, professors and artists will engage in a conversation about Camilo José Vergara’s “The Pandemic Diary” at the Yale University Art Gallery’s Robert L. McNeil,...
A study involving affiliates of the Yale Environmental Humanities Program assessed the consequences of land displacement and forced migration on present-day Native American...
The “(Re)thinking Landscape: Ways of knowing / Ways of being” symposium took place at Yale University from September 29 to October 1, 2022.
This interdisciplinary, multi-day...
The Native Land Research Initiative is an interdisciplinary research group with members from the Yale School of Environment, the University of Michigan, and Colorado State...
Art history is often viewed through cultural or national lenses that define some works as fine art while relegating others to the category of craft. Global Objects points the...
Ivano Dal Prete’s new book, On the Edge of Eternity: The Antiquity of the Earth in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Oxford University Press, 2022), radically revises...
The Yale Environmental Humanities Program invites brief submissions of paper proposals from Yale graduate students for its 2022 Fall research symposium. The symposium,...
The Yale Art School, in cooperation with the Yale School of Architecture and the Yale School of the Environment, is pleased to announce the recipients of a fellowship in...
Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart (Kanaka Maoli) is Assistant Professor of Native and Indigenous Studies at Yale University. An interdisciplinary scholar, she...
Nurfadzilah Yahaya is an Assistant Professor of history at Yale University. She specialises in the history of Southeast Asia, Indian Ocean history, legal history, history of...
Dr. Elleza Kelley is an Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at Yale University. She is interested in space, form, visual art, and black aesthetics....
The Black Environmentalisms conference will take place on October 13-14th in the Sterling Library Lecture Hall. Featuring 30 scholars, artists, professors, and writers, the...
On October 13–14, 2022, the Yale Center for Environmental Justice and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will present the 2022 Global...
Dolores Hayden, Professor Emeritus of Architecture and American Studies, has received the 2022 Vincent Scully Prize, which recognizes excellence in practice, scholarship, or...
The Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration, in partnership with Yale Environmental Humanities, is pleased to announce Hannah Rachel Cole as...
Yale Environmental Humanities will welcome back students, faculty and other affiliates with a panel discussion and reception on Friday, September 9, 4:00pm, followed by an...
In addition to her research on food systems as a PhD candidate at the Yale School of the Environment, Samara Brock is the co-host (with Matthew Kessler) of Feed, a podcast...
In a Washington Post article, Deborah Coen, Professor and Chair of the History of Science & Medicine Program at Yale, observed that European nations found themselves at a...
Yale School of the Environment alums Sawyer Cresap ‘22 and Ben Stern ‘22 received support from the 2022 Environmental Humanities Grant Program for their co-directed...
From September 9, 2022 to January 8, 2023, the Yale University Art Gallery will present Fazal Sheikh: Exposures. Fazal Sheikh (born 1965) has spent his career photographing...
Yale historian and Environmental Humanities affiliate Sunil Amrith has been awarded the 2022 Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for History in recognition of his examination of the...
Northeastern Central African Republic - a vast space bordering Chad, Darfur, and South Sudan - is a quintessential ‘stateless’ space, where the government has little presence...
Yale Environmental Humanities grantee Taiga Christie presented the outdoor public performance of The Place is the Message at Yale’s West Campus in Spring 2022. Read...
Yale Environmental Humanities is delighted to announce the twelve 2022 recipients of the Graduate Certificate in the Environmental Humanities sponsored by the Yale Graduate...
2020 Environmental Humanities grantee Taiga Christie co-organized two outdoor performance pieces at Yale Schwarzman Center as part of her grant project: This Place is a...
Yale Environmental Humanities is pleased to announce the (Re)thinking Landscape Conference, to take place September 29–October 1, 2022. The conference is organized by...
Directed by Environmental Humanities grantees Sawyer Cresap and Ben Stern, A Climate of Anxiety investigates how climate change anxiety impacts the next generation of...
Sea and Land: An Environmental History of the Caribbean
Philip J. Morgan, John R. McNeill, Matthew Mulcahy, and Stuart B. Schwartz
Oxford University Press, 2022
Sea and Land ...
On Tuesday, May 3, graduate students from a diverse array of Yale programs and departments will share their research at the Spring 2022 Graduate Symposium in the...
Meredith Miller and MJ Millington received support from the 2021 Environmental Humanities Grant Program for their interdisciplinary art project, Dreaming Animals, currently...
Meredith Miller and MJ Millington, two of our 2021 Environmental Humanities Grant Recipients, were featured in a recent Yale News article titled “Dreaming animals: Beinecke...
Consciousness, the distinctive quality that allows humans to perceive the world, sometimes gets in the way of people trying to comprehend the ecosystems in which they live —...
Organized by the Desert Futures Collective, the upcoming “Desert Futures : Sahara” symposium will bring together artists and scholars to investigate the poetics and...
The Yale Environmental Law Association has organized a robust series of “Climate+” panels that bring together scholars, organizers, and advocates to deepen our understanding...
To reclaim a sense of hope for the future, German activists in the late twentieth century engaged ordinary citizens in innovative projects that resisted alienation and...
Call for Papers:
Spring 2022 Yale Environmental Humanities Graduate Symposium
Application Deadline: Friday, April 15, 2022
We are delighted to announce that the Spring 2022...
The Yale Environmental Humanities Program is excited to announce the recipients of its 2022 Environmental Public Humanities Grants. The grant program supports projects...
2022 Environmental Humanities grantees Elaina Foley and Akio Ho used their award money to organize fSTS@Yale, an undergraduate-led collective that produces programming around...
A group of four students and faculty affiliated with the Environmental Humanities program have published an article on the global bushmeat trade in relation to public health...
On January 26, 2022, three grantees from the Environmental Humanities Grant Program shared their work in an online public program. We are excited to share a recording of this...
EFFY 2022 will take place over three days from March 31st to April 2nd. Screenings will be live and in-person at multiple venues across New Haven, but links to watch the...
2022 Environmental Humanities grantee Miguel Gaydosh is organizing a symposium titled What is graphic design made of? on Saturday March, 12. Supported by the School of Art...
Co-hosted by Yale Divinity School and the Yale School of the Environment, this year’s Graduate Conference in Religion and Ecology addressed the theme of “New Seeds,...
This book asks an age-old question about the relationship between human consciousness and the environment: How do we think about our own thoughts and actions? How can we...
Taylor Rose, “The ‘Opening of the Clackamas’: Log Trucks, Access Roads, and Multiple-Use Infrastructure in Oregon’s National Forests,” Western Historical Quarterly.
Driving...
Kristy M. Ferraro, a PhD candidate at Yale School of the environment and graduate student in the Environmental Humanities Certificate Program, has co-authored two recent...
This spring, the Yale Center for Environmental Justice (YCEJ) and the Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) will co-present an Energy Justice Speaker Series on...
As Covid-19 continues to wreak havoc on loftily laid university plans, we seek to imagine new futures where life is possible no matter the circumstances. Here at Yale Slavic...
The Law, Ethics & Animals Program at Yale Law School has opened applications for its student grant program. The grants support student-led projects that advance...
On Wednesday, January 26, Yale Environmental Humanities will host a ”Humanities in Action” project showcase to feature speakers discussing three recent environmental...
Read the interview at Yale News
Yale anthropologist Lisa Messeri paid close attention last fall when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg shared his plans to invest billions into...
Knar Abrahamyan is a Yale doctoral student in Music Theory, where she studies opera as a colonial technology of rule in Soviet Armenia and Kazakhstan. Abrahamyan’s research...
The Yale Environmental Humanities Program is pleased to announce its 2022 Environmental Humanities Grant Cycle. Applications are due on February 13, 2022 (updated deadline...
In African Ecomedia, Cajetan Iheka examines the ecological footprint of media in Africa alongside the representation of environmental issues in visual culture. Iheka shows...
Call for Papers:
Yale Environmental Humanities Fall 2021 Graduate Symposium
Application Deadline: Sunday, Nov 28, 2021
Yale Environmental Humanities invites brief...
Grace Cajski received support from the Yale Sustainable Food Program’s Global Food Fellowship for her environmental humanities project on Hawaiian fishponds. Cajski shared...
Climate change over the past thousands of years is undeniable, but debate has arisen about its impact on past human societies. This book explores the link between climate...
Dr. Alvita Akiboh is a U.S. historian specializing in the history of U.S. overseas colonies in the Caribbean and Pacific. She earned her PhD in History from Northwestern...
Dr. Jonathan Howard is an Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at Yale University. His research and teaching broadly interrogate western ideas about...
Dr. Morgan Ng is a historian of early modern architecture, landscape, and visual culture specializing in Renaissance Italy and its global networks. His scholarship explores...
