Graduate Students

Matthew Mendez's picture Matthew Mendez
Graduate Student, Music

Post-1945 experimental sound and music; media theory/cultural techniques; media ecology; voice studies; historical epistemology; “post-truth”

Thomas Monaghan's picture Thomas Monaghan
Graduate Student, History

Sugar in Japan; society and the environment; commodities and trade; technology transfers; local history; agricultural experiments; island societies; Brazil and the Caribbean...

Jeania Ree Moore's picture Jeania Ree Moore
Graduate Student, African American Studies

theology, aesthetics, race, animals, creation

Mikhail Moosa's picture Mikhail Moosa
Graduate Student, History, and Whitney Fellow in the Environmental Humanities

African history; South African history; Environmental history; Energy history; Social history

Julien Neel's picture Julien Neel
Graduate Student, French

20th/21st Century French Literature; Ecocriticism; Gender Studies and Feminism; Visual Studies.

Rundong Ning's picture Rundong Ning
Graduate Student, Anthropology

oil, infrastructure, entrepreneurship, economic anthropology, African and China studies

Matthew O'Malley's picture Matthew O'Malley
Graduate Student, Anthropology

Landscapes & worlds; atmospheres & moods; ecological poetics & aesthetics; natural history & field guides; walking; field work (what is a field? what is...

Kaggie Orrick's picture Kaggie Orrick
Graduate Student, School of the Environment

Social-Ecological Systems; applied conservation; human-wildlife interactions

George Papamatthaiakis's picture George Papamatthaiakis
Graduate Student, School of Architecture

Infrastructure, operational landscapes, coasts, STS, environmental geography

Federica Parodi's picture Federica Parodi
Graduate Student, Italian Studies

Italian cultural studies; sound studies; performance; women, gender and sexuality studies; postcolonial theory

Hsin-Yuan Peng's picture Hsin-Yuan Peng
Graduate Student, Comparative Literature and Film & Media Studies

Meteorological cinema; media studies; history of photography; history of science and technology; philosophy

Harshavardan Raghunandhan's picture Harshavardan Raghunandhan
Graduate Student, History

Modern South Asia; Political economy; Environmental history; Public health.

Alison Renna's picture Alison Renna
Graduate Student, Religious Studies

World-making, secularism, modernity, science and technology studies, environmental ethics

Taylor Rose's picture Taylor Rose
Graduate Student, History

19th and 20th century US environmental history, North American West, race and identity, rural space and place, federal land management, transportation infrastructure

Aanchal Saraf's picture Aanchal Saraf
Graduate Student, American Studies

Critical Race Theory; Feminist/Queer Theory; Political Ecology; Ethnography; Geography; Imperialisms in Asia/Pacific; Settler Colonialism; Performance Ecology

Tanmoy Sharma's picture Tanmoy Sharma
Graduate Student, Anthropology

Environmental anthropology; political economy; semiotics; flow and value; cosmologies and sovereignties; commodities and communities; energy and infrastructure; India and...

Emily Sorensen's picture Emily Sorensen
Professional Student, School of Drama

Ecological art and performance; ecodramaturgy; ritual; spirituality; storytelling 

Lindsay Stern's picture Lindsay Stern
Graduate Student, Comparative Literature

Animal studies, science studies, philosophy of language, Kafka, Wittgenstein

Simon Torracinta's picture Simon Torracinta
Graduate Student, History of Science and Medicine

History of the human sciences; histories of environmental and ecological thought; intellectual and cultural history of the Great Acceleration

Lydia Tuan's picture Lydia Tuan
Graduate Student, Italian Studies, Film and Media Studies

Histories and philosophies of elemental media, landscape and architecture in/as cinema, migration