The Yale Environmental Humanities Program and the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration invite applications for a one-year Postdoctoral...
A group of scholars including Justin Farrell (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Yale School of the Environment), Paul Burow (PhD candidate in Anthropology and School of the...
Grace Cajski is a Yale undergraduate student majoring in English and Environmental Studies and the recipient of a 2021 Environmental Public Humanities Grant for her project...
Yale Environmental Humanities is excited to welcome back students, faculty and other affiliates with a panel discussion centered on the concept of “landscape” on September 10...
Here’s the updated list of more than 50 undergraduate and 25 graduate/professional courses at Yale in the environmental humanities, broadly defined.
Link to online pdf...
In the 1960s and 1970s, an insurgent attack on traditional liberalism took shape in America. It was built on new ideals of citizen advocacy and the public interest....
With record-breaking heat waves gripping many regions of the U.S. and unprecedented floods wreaking havoc from China to Germany, the existential threat of climate change has...
Mark E. Frank, ”Frontier atmosphere: observation and regret at Chinese weather stations in Tibet, 1939–1949”, The British Journal for the History of Science 54:3 (September...
Yale Environmental Humanities is delighted to announce the three 2021 recipients of the Environmental Humanities Certificate sponsored by the Yale Graduate School of Arts and...
We are excited to feature several dissertations filed this academic year that engage with Environmental Humanities. Please join us in celebrating this year’s graduates, and...
The Yale School of the Environment, EQUID, the Office of Community and Inclusion and Roots’ hosted a speaker series during the spring 2021 semester titled “Intersectionality...
The Yale Environmental Humanities Program is excited to announce the recipients of its 2021 Environmental Public Humanities Grants. The grant program supports projects...
Andy Horowitz (Tulane University) has been awarded a 2021 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy for his book Katrina: A History, 1915-2015. The Bancroft Prize,...
The Yale InterAsia Initiative will host the ‘InterAsia Water(s) Graduate Conference,’ a conference that seeks to bring together qualitative and humanistic approaches to the...
Yale professor Cajetan Iheka was an undergraduate in his home country of Nigeria at the height of unrest in the oil-rich Niger Delta in the 2000s. He was a junior when his...
Every semester, Yale professors and instructors offer dozens of graduate and undergraduate courses approaching the intersections between the environment and humanities...
The Council on East Asian Studies at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, in partnership with Yale Environmental Humanities, is...
Taylor Rose, a fourth-year doctoral candidate in the Department of History, has received the AHA/NASA Fellowship in the area of Aerospace History. This fellowship assists...
We are excited to kick off a new semester, and are preparing to engage in new and exciting ways with each other, around pertinent issues affecting our communities and the...
Dorceta Taylor ’85 M.F.S., ’91 Ph.D., one of the nation’s preeminent scholars in the field of environmental justice, has been named full professor at the Yale School of the...
In an effort to engage a wider public with humanities perspectives on environmental issues, we created the Environmental Humanities Grant Program. We invited members of the...
We are excited to feature several dissertations filed this academic year that engage with Environmental Humanities. Please join us in celebrating this year’s...
Congratulations to Carlos Nugent, who received his doctorate in English this month. Carlos’ research focuses on twentieth-century American literature, Latinx literature,...
This semester, Environmental Humanities Postdoc Tomo Sugimoto taught an undergraduate course in Anthropology and East Asian Studies titled “Nature and Culture in and of East...
Sunil Amrith, newly appointed as the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History, focuses his research on the trans-regional movement of people, ideas, and institutions across...
Billionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today’s richest people are using the natural environment to solve the...
Gerald Torres, an acclaimed global scholar of environmental law, critical race theory, and federal Indian law, joins the faculty at the Yale School of Forestry &...
The Yale Environmental Humanities Program is pleased to announce the Environmental Humanities Grant Program. This program seeks to encourage humanities projects that engage...
In just three decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the heart of Africa was utterly transformed. Virtually closed to outsiders for centuries, by the early 1900s the...
The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, with support from The Graciela Chichilnisky Environmental Fund in Honor of Natasha Chichilnisky-Heal, will host the...
Paper Abstract:
Northern Iraq was the political and economic center of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (c. 912 to 609 BCE)—the largest and most powerful empire of its time. After...
“Place, Nations, Generations, Beings: 200 Years of Indigenous North American Art” is on view at the Yale University Art Gallery through June 21, 2020. Curated by Katherine...
This workshop, co-organized by Deborah Coen (history of science, Yale) and Adam Sobel (atmospheric physics, Columbia), looks at how major international scientific research...
The Yale University Art Gallery will host its first exhibit dedicated to Indigenous North American art, entitled Place, Nations, Generations, Beings: 200 Years of Indigenous...
Paul Freedman, Chester D. Tripp Professor of History, releases his latest book, American Cuisine and How It Got This Way, with Liveright Press. Freedman specializes in...
Yale Environmental Humanities is very happy to welcome Cajetan Iheka, who joins the Yale English Department this year as Associate Professor. Professor Iheka comes to Yale by...
Yale’s Fall 2019 undergraduate and graduate course offerings include more than 60 courses in the environmental humanities. Read more about the courses in the fall...
View or Download: “Energy and the Humanities,” 2018-2019 Report
During the 2018-2019 academic year, Yale Environmental Humanities hosted a yearlong conversation to explore...
The Council on East Asian Studies at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, in partnership with Yale Environmental Humanities, is...
The Yale Environmental Humanities Initiative is pleased to announce that its third Annual Graduate Symposium on the Environmental Humanities will be held at:
Room 203, 34...
On April 27 and 28, Yale hosted an interdisciplinary conference exploring the ”aerial image,” broadly conceived. Drawing upon recent work in the environmental humanities, the...
“It was with the proverbial curiosity of a cat that Yale professor Jonathan Kramnick designed his cross-disciplinary undergraduate course “Animals in Literature and Theory,”...
The International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture (ISSRNC) announced that Mary Evelyn Tucker and John A. Grim have been selected as the 2019 recipients...
Yale Environmental History is hosting a spring workshop series featuring works in progress in environmental history by Yale doctoral students. All workshops will be held in...
To address the need for interdisciplinary scholarship that can help illuminate the complex ways that nature and culture are intertwined, the Yale Environmental Humanities...
The Yale University Department of History invites applications for a Cassius Marcellus Clay Postdoctoral Fellowship in United States environmental history. The fellow will...
The Yale Center for British Art is holding an exhibition, entitled Before the Deluge: Apocalyptic Floodscapes from John Martin to John Goto, 1789 to Now. The exhibition...
The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University seeks applications for the CEAS Postdoctoral Associate in the Environmental Humanities. The appointment period is from...
If sexology—the science of sex—came into being sometime in the nineteenth century, then how did statesmen, scientists, and everyday people make meaning out of sex before that...
A Yale-led project examining the link between volcanic eruptions and the annual Nile river summer flooding in antiquity has received an award from the National Science...
Stunning satellite images of one hundred cities show our urbanizing planet in a new light to reveal the fragile relationship between humanity and Earth
Seeing cities around...
Yale history professor Alan Mikhail receives prestigious Anneliese Maier Research Award (250,000 euros) to collaborate with researchers in Germany and advance environmental...
This conference will bring together scholars of South, Southeast, and East Asia for a discussion framed by the concept of a “wood age.” We will consider both the centrality...
Roundtable on studying energy from a humanities perspective.
Speakers include:
Isabel Lane (Slavic Languages and Literatures)
Myles Lennon (Anthropology/F&ES)
Katja...
How do poems and novels create a sense of mind? What does literary criticism say in conversation with other disciplines that addresses problems of consciousness? In Paper...
Yale is offering a range of Fall 2018 courses on Environmental Ethics and Environmental Justice. In Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan’s “Environmental Justice in South Asia”...
Yale will offer several Fall 2018 courses on the theme of Spaces and Places: Rural and Urban.
For undergraduate students, Michael Schlab’s “Architectures of Urbanism:...
Climate and society is a growing area of emphasis in several Fall 2018 courses. Michael Dove’s “Climate and Society from Past to Present” explores historical and contemporary...
