Through the course of my PhD research, I found myself escaping with increasing frequency to parks of different kinds in the cities I made home.
Environmental History Now.
A Platform on Representation, Engagement, and Community
Working the In-Between: The Thrill of Interdisciplinarity
With little attention given to the links that interconnect the pieces we have created, problems arise when trying to reconnect that puzzle. At these moments, we venture into the murky realm of interdisciplinary research.
Bending the Rules: Forest History in Northeast China
After sharing that I came to Yichun for my dissertation research on forestry history of the People’s Republic of China, I was told that I came to the wrong place.
Politics of Nature: A New Series
EHN is seeking contributors for our forthcoming series, “The Politics of Nature.”
Sensing Victorian Taxidermy in the Present
It was with a certain amount of trepidation that I signed up for a taxidermy class. I am researching nineteenth-century British taxidermy production and wanted some hands-on experience.
The Carbon Footprint of Environmental Research: A Personal Dilemma
It just did not sit right anymore to go on all these research trips. That’s when I calculated the Carbon Footprint of my project until thus far.
“You Are Here:” Deep Time at the Smithsonian
Looking back, my fascination with museums has clearly played out in my doctoral research on emerging relationships between humans and nonhumans under ecological emergency. Unsurprisingly, the natural history museum is one of the most fraught sites in which these relationships have historically been constructed.
A Van Down by the Climbing Gym
When I worked for a rock climbing gym in Denver, Colorado between college and graduate school, I never asked my van-dwelling coworkers what they thought about living out of their vehicles across a fence from people experiencing homelessness.