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September 27, 2022
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...
September 27, 2022
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....
September 27, 2022
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...
September 7, 2022
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...
September 7, 2022
Dolores Hayden, Professor Emeritus of Architecture and American Studies, has received the 2022 Vincent Scully Prize, which recognizes excellence in practice, scholarship, or...
Hannah Cole Profile
August 29, 2022
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...
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August 29, 2022
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...
July 28, 2022
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...
July 15, 2022
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...
July 14, 2022
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...
June 23, 2022
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...
June 9, 2022
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...
June 1, 2022
Northeastern Central African Republic - a vast space bordering Chad, Darfur, and South Sudan - is a quintessential ‘stateless’ space, where the government has little presence...
May 21, 2022
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...
May 16, 2022
Yale Environmental Humanities is delighted to announce the twelve 2022 recipients of the Graduate Certificate in the Environmental Humanities sponsored by the Yale Graduate...
May 9, 2022
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...
May 6, 2022
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...
May 3, 2022
Directed by Environmental Humanities grantees Sawyer Cresap and Ben Stern, A Climate of Anxiety investigates how climate change anxiety impacts the next generation of...
May 2, 2022
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 ...
April 27, 2022
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...