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...
Every semester, Yale professors and instructors offer dozens of graduate and undergraduate courses approaching the intersections between the environment and humanities...
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...
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...
