Now that summer is approaching and summer schools for PhD candidates are likely to be cancelled, postponed, or arranged online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I have found myself pondering my past summer school experiences.
A Platform on Representation, Engagement, and Community
Category: Field Notes
(Re)Visiting the (Mental) Spaces of Our Research
“I have a bit of a provocative question for Taylor.”
Oh no. Here it comes.
“Have you ever done ayahuasca?”
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.
A Change of Perspective: Visiting the Places of Your Research
Now that I’m pursuing a doctoral degree in the highly interdisciplinary field of environmental history, I have come to embrace new research methods.
Liquid Geographies, Uneven Worlds: How Do We Talk About Placing Water?
As I sit in my home in Serampore, India, flanked by the river Hugli and waiting for the already delayed Monsoons to arrive and bring with it some relief, in what has been a record-breaking and extraordinarily hot summer in India, I recognize that writing about water in place-based research is a self-defeating endeavor.
The Perils of a Writer’s Profession: Overcoming Writer’s Block
If you are a person who will spend a great deal of your professional life writing, you too are likely to become afflicted by Writer’s Block at some point.
The Autistic Process: Research through the Overwhelming
Whatever its explanatory powers, or lack thereof, describing the autistic umwelt or life-world as intense carries an important truth about the advantages and disadvantages of working in academia with autism.
Connecting Audiences to Environmental History: The General Survey Course
Why is environmental history not more “mainstream”? What are your ideas for incorporating the environment and environmental history into survey courses?