Aadita Chaudhury

Aadita Chaudhury (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the Department of Science and Technology Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada. Previously, she completed a Masters in Environmental Studies at York University, and a Bachelor of Applied Science in Chemical Engineering at the University of Toronto. Her research interests are broadly surrounding the anthropology and philosophy of biology and the ecological sciences, cartography, postcolonial and feminist STS, and environmental and medical humanities. For her dissertation project, Aadita is researching the materialities and tensions in academic fire ecology research with a particular interest in the role of nonhuman and more-than-human actors in fire ecology knowledge production and translation. She has worked in mining consulting for projects in Saskatchewan, Panama, and Turkey, and interned at the Division of Technology, Industry and Economics at the United Nations Environment Program in Paris, France. Aadita also served as a science writer and the founding editor for the Technology and Engineering section of the Canadian science communication platform Science Borealis. She is serving a three-year term as a Student Representative at the executive council for the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) between 2017 and 2020.

Adrian Cato

Adrian Cato (she/they) is a PhD student in the Department of African American Studies at Emory University. As a self-proclaimed “queer aquatic Afro-futurist,” she is invested in narrates that present the duality of the ocean—a site of historical trauma for the African Diaspora and a place of Black joy and multi-species kinship. Adrian positions her work among ocean humanists that recognize the ocean’s violent and colonized past and its potential as a space of Black imagining. Their research practice centers voices that are marginalized in American maritime and coastal historical memory, highlighting the narrative erasure of U.S.-based island and coastal communities.

Alesia Ofori

Alesia Ofori (she/her) is currently a PhD researcher at the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds. She studies the politics of natural resource management in Sub-Saharan Africa, focusing specifically on Ghana.

Alexandra Straub

Dr. Alexandra (Ali) Straub (she/her) is the Research Coordinator at the University of Pittsburgh’s World History Center. She is a historian interested in the intersection of environment, technology, culture and science. Her current research explores the history of chemical and mechanical water softening and water conditioning. Prior to joining the World History Center, Alexandra was the Cain Dissertation Fellow at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia. Alexandra received her PhD in History from Temple University in 2020. 

Alexia Shellard

Dr. Alexia Shellard (she/her) recentely earned her PhD degree in Social History at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Her thesis, titled “Living in the frontier: environmental and social changes in Brazilian wilderness at the border with Bolívia (1881-1912),” explores the conflicts between modern enterprises and native population in the transition from the nineteenth- to the twentieth century. She received a scholarship from Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior throughtout her entire research. Alexia’s research interests includes the intersections of race, gender, and environment. She holds a BA in Geography from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) as well as a Master’s Degree in Geography from Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). Alexia has taught Geography at both at The British School in Rio de Janeiro and UNICOM. She currently works as curator for Brazilian books collections for universities in United States, Europe, and Asia.

Alice Would

Dr. Alice Would (she/her) is a Lecturer in Imperial and Environmental History at Bristol University. She obtained a PhD in History from Bristol University in September 2021 with a dissertation that explored Victorian taxidermy production by tracking the flow of animal bodies which supplied the taxidermy trade, from kill-site to museum. As an environmental historian of animal-human relationships in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Alice is particularly interested in the senses, materiality, interspecies histories, and time and temporality. 

Alicia Gutting

Alicia Gutting (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the ERC-project Nuclearwaters at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Her research focusses on the environmental impact of nuclear power on the Rhine River as well as the risk debates around it. Before joining KTH, Alicia worked as a junior researcher at the Institute of Technology Assessment at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. She has studied Theatre, Film and Media Studies as well as Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Vienna and at La Trobe University in Melbourne.

Alison Laurence

Alison Laurence (she/her) is a doctoral candidate at MIT in the interdisciplinary History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS) program. Informed by work experience in history and natural history museums, her research explores how material relics of the planetary past, and prehistoric animals in particular, are transformed into cultural artifacts and function as historically situated artifacts. She is currently completing her dissertation, “A Conservative History of Deep Time: Learning from Extinct Animals in the Modern United States,” with support from the National Academy of Education and Spencer Foundation. Her collaborative work has appeared in the History of Anthropology Newsletter and Anthropocene Curriculum. Prior to doctoral research, Alison earned a BA in Classics from Brown University and an MA in History and Public History from the University of New Orleans.

Allison Puglisi

Dr. Allison Puglisi (she/they) is a historian of Black social movements with a focus on gender, urban space, and the environment, and currently the Carol G. Lederer Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University. She received her PhD in American Studies from Harvard in 2021, with a secondary certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies. Allison’s current project explores how twentieth-century Black New Orleanians—particularly women activists—contended with environmental issues and theorized their own relationships to nature.

Alyssa Kreikemeier

Dr. Alyssa Kreikemeier (she/her) is EHN’s executive review editor. She recentely obtained her PhD in American Studies at Boston University, and also holds an Ed.M. with concentrations in engaged research and intercultural exchange from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her dissertation explored explores the historical development of air in the North American West, drawing upon cultural landscape studies, public history, and Native American and Indigenous Studies.

Amanda Katz

Dr. Amanda Katz (she/her) is a U.S. historian of technology and culture, and received her PhD from Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests include environmental history, history of infrastructure and transportation, and the American West. Amanda’s dissertation, titled “Miracle Miles: From Roadbuilding to American Highway Engineering,” examines the role of the federal government in developing rural road programs that professionalized the field of highway engineering and revolutionized modern highway infrastructure in the United States. Amanda enjoys hiking and running, and can often be found wandering in the mountains.

Amanda Lewis-Nang’ea

Dr. Amanda Lewis-Nang’ea (she/her) is a Visiting Assistant Professor at SUNY-Geneseo in the History Department. She works at the convergence of environmental history, the history of science, and African history, incorporating conservation, social science, and animal studies into her work on African environments. Her book project focuses on the history of Maasai pastoralism, wildlife conservation, field science, and development in Kenya. Amanda has also conducted research in Madagascar.

Amanda Martin-Hardin

Amanda Martin-Hardin (she/her) is a History PhD candidate at Columbia University studying twentieth-century U.S. history with an emphasis on race/racialization and access to outdoor recreation spaces. She researches how certain leisure landscapes became predominantly white spaces, as well as how people of color resisted their exclusion from outdoor recreation spaces. Amanda currently hosts a podcast about “urban nature” in New York City called Everyday Environmentalism.

Amelia Brackett

Amelia Brackett Hogstad (she/her) is a community (aka urban or land use) planner in Colorado. She graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2023 with a PhD in History, studying the history of Canada lynx in Colorado. Prior to planning, Amelia worked as a public historian on projects that allowed her to study the history of urban apple trees, develop oral history projects on the histories of agriculture and science, and enact community-based research and curation practices.

Amelia diehl

Amelia Diehl (she/her) is a writer living in Salt Lake City, Utah, interested in climate justice, queer ecology, social movements, and cultural commentary. She holds an MS in Environmental Humanities from the University of Utah. Her master’s thesis explored the rhetoric of the energy transition, centered on the first new lithium mine in the US for electric vehicles, Thacker Pass in Nevada. Originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan, she is passionate about journalistic and academic research as a way to archive social movements.

Amelie Bonney

Amelie Bonney (she/her) is a D.Phil candidate at the Centre for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology of the University of Oxford. Her current research lies at the intersection of environmental history, history of science and technology, and history of medicine. Amelie’s doctoral dissertation focuses on the construction of expert knowledge on toxic colours and the management of industrial hazards in France and Britain between 1830 and 1914. As part of her research, she is interested in examining how gender affected perceptions of and responses to occupational poisoning. Amelie is also a book review editor for Pharmacy in History and currently co-organising Talking Emotions, a public engagement with research project in partnership with the Ashmolean museum at Oxford.

Amrita DasGupta

Amrita DasGupta (she/her) is a third-year doctoral candidate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London. Her PhD deals with South Asian transnational borders and trafficking in humans, especially along the mangrove frontier. Amrita completed a M.Phil at Jadavpur University with a thesis titled “Bonbibi’s Sundarbans: Tiger Widows and Water-Prostitutes,” which interrogated the impact of/relation between animal-attack widows and the changing norms of widowhood in relation to sex work in the Sundarbans. Her short documentary “Save the Sundarbans” was awarded the cinematography award, script and editing award of the Open Society University Network. Amrita has published in journals like the Economic and Political Weekly and Gitanjali and Beyond.

Ana Sekulić

Dr. Ana Sekulić (she/her) recently received her PhD in Ottoman History from Princeton University. Her dissertation, “Conversion of the Landscape: Environment and Religious Politics in an Early Modern Ottoman Town,” examines how religious change and interactions between Catholic and Muslim communities found expression in the natural environment of Ottoman Bosnia. Her research explores intersections of religious thought, cultural history, and the natural world.

Anaïs Got

Anaïs Got (she/her) is a PhD student at the University of Angers. She studies the history of seed testing from a transnational perspective, and particularly interested in questions about how scientists define criteria for seed quality in agriculture.

Anastasia Day

Anastasia Day (she/her) is a former content editor for EHN. She’s a doctoral candidate in History and Hagley Scholar in Capitalism, Technology, and Culture at the University of Delaware. Anastasia identifies as a historian of environment, technology, business, and society, themes that collide uniquely in food. Her dissertation is entitled “Productive Plots: Nature, Nation, and Industry in the Victory Gardens of the U.S. World War II Home Front.”

Anna Guasco

Anna Guasco (she/her) is EHN’s executive content editor and also the co-editor of our Tools for Change series. She’s a PhD candidate and Gates Cambridge Scholar in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge. Her doctoral work focuses on histories, narratives, and environmental justice issues surrounding the migration and conservation of gray whales along the North American Pacific Coast. Anna holds a BA in American Studies from Carleton College and an MSc in Environment, Culture and Society from the University of Edinburgh, and her prior professional work includes working as a national park ranger in California. 

Anna Kramer

Anna Kramer (she/her) is a PhD student in the Department of History at the University of Colorado Boulder. She studies 20th-century U.S. environmental history, with a particular interest in the intersections of public lands, outdoor recreation, and Native Americans. Originally from Cooperstown, New York, Anna completed her BA in Environmental Analysis at Pomona College and worked for the National Wildlife Federation and the American Alpine Club before beginning graduate school.

Anna S. Antonova

Anna S. Antonova (she/her) works at the intersection between environmental
humanities and critical policy studies to research contemporary social
and environmental change in Europe. She is currently Researcher in
Residence at the Rachel Carson Center / LMU Munich, while also finishing
her doctoral studies at the University of Leeds, where she was a Marie
Sklodowska-Curie doctoral research fellow. Her dissertation compared the
crises and contestations faced by communities living on the Yorkshire
North Sea and Bulgarian Black Sea coasts.

Anna Soer

Anna Soer (she/her) is a PhD student at the University of Ottawa. Her research focuses on the gendered impacts among Indigenous communities of sustainable development policies and projects in Arctic Norway and Canada. She holds a MSc in Human Geography with a specialization on conflict, territories, and identities from Radboud University. Anna is a contributor to The Arctic Institute Take Five as well as a Research Assistant in Arctic cross-border cooperation. She has a young puppy devouring all of her free time and loves to hike.

Anna Townhill

Anna Townhill (she/her) is a MA student at the University of Exeter (Cornwall), studying International Heritage Management and Consultancy. She graduated from the University of Exeter with a BA degree in English Literature. Currently refining her specific focus, her interests can be broadly summarised as the overlap of heritage, environment, and literature. Anna is particularly interested in Victorian writings, North American indigenous cultures, rewilding, and the potential of heritage in environmental education. She enjoys the literary landscapes of the British Isles, bushcraft, and outdoor education.

Aparna Agarwal

Aparna Agarwal (she/her) is a DPhil Candidate at the Department of International Development at the University of Oxford. Her research focusses on politics of waste in Delhi. 

April Anson

Dr. April Anson (she/her) joined the San Diego State University as Assistant Professor of Public Humanities in the fall of 2020. She previously was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania with the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities. April writes and teaches at the intersection of the environmental humanities and American studies, paying particular attention to Indigenous studies and political theory. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in boundary 2, Environmental History, Resilience, Western American Literature, and others.

Araceli Ramos

Araceli Ramos (she/her) is a graduate student at California State University, Long Beach, specializing in the history of exploration, the environment, conservation, and the natural sciences. Her research focuses on field expeditions in Central and South America during the 19th and 20th centuries, examining the relationships between explorers, scientific institutions, and indigenous communities. Her current project delves into the scientific contributions of expeditions conducted by the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County during the mid-20th century, which will be showcased in an upcoming exhibition at the museum later this year. This research also forms the basis of her master’s thesis.

Asmae Ourkiya

Dr. Asmae Ourkiya (they/them) is a former content and review editor for EHN. They recently obtained a PhD in Ecofeminism from Mary Immaculate College at the University of Limerick. Asmae’s dissertation, titled “Queer Ecofeminism: From Binary Environmental Endeavours to Postgender Pursuits,” navigates environmental politics by revisiting ecofeminism through an intersectional lens that enmeshes climate justice with matters revolving around sexuality, gender, race, and far-right politics. They have over 10 years of experience as a writer, researcher, editor, mentor, and consultant, and works towards bridging the gap between the humanities and climate sciences.

Aster Hoving

Aster Hoving (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Environmental Humanities at the Greenhouse (University of Stavanger,). She holds a BA in Language and Culture Studies from Utrecht University and an MA in Cultural Analysis from the University of Amsterdam. She has also been an exchange student at UC Berkeley and New York University. Her PhD project is called “Ocean Energies,” which is a term she uses to refer to the rhythms of and around the tides, waves, upwelling, salinity, and hydrothermal vents. The central question of this project pertains how these rhythms are mediated differently across the ocean sciences, experimental ocean energy industries, and contemporary arts, in order to get an idea of how the ways in which we know ocean energies influence how we imagine living with them.

Astrid Tvetenstrand

Astrid Tvetenstrand (she/her) recently obtained her PhD in American & New England Studies at Boston University. Her work investigates the relationships between collection, art patronage, land ownership, and American landscape art. She argues that the process of collecting art and land in the nineteenth century was an effort made by affluent Americans to “buy a view.” By recognizing landscape paintings as investments and monetary goods, Astrid sheds new light on Gilded Age consumerism, aesthetics, and taste. She also localizes art market exchanges within a larger conversation about the privatization of public space.

Aylin Malcolm

Originally from Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Aylin Malcolm (they/them) is a PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, where they write and teach about the multilingual poetry of medieval England and the history of ecological science. In particular, Aylin is interested in how medieval ecological knowledge continues to influence environmental and social frameworks today, from trans experiences to the construction of racial categories. A former science student, Aylin now works at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, where they help to make early scientific books accessible to all.

Ayushi Dhawan

Ayushi Dhawan (she/her) is a doctoral candidate at the Rachel Carson Center / LMU Munich, Germany. She is a part of DFG Emmy-Noether Research Group “Hazardous Travels: Ghost Acres and the Global Waste Economy.” Her dissertation research explores India’s shipbreaking business in Alang, Gujarat, its environmental impact(s), and the motivations behind this transboundary movement of toxic waste since the 1980s. Before beginning her doctoral study, Ayushi completed her BA Hons. and MA in History from the University of Delhi in 2014. She then joined the Foundation Year at the University of Leiden in 2014-2015, supported by the ENCOMPASS Scholarship. In 2017, she earned her Research Master’s degree in Colonial and Global History.

Ángela Castillo Ardila

Ángela Castillo Ardila (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the Anthropology Department at UC Berkeley and a Fulbright Fellow. She holds a BA in Anthropology and an MSc in Geography. Ángela studies practices of territorial, water, and life defense in Colombia in the context of contemporary extractive disputes, focusing on emergetwnt political subjects, novel forms of political action, and the production of territory, nature, democracy, and law. 

Émilie Pasquier

Émilie Pasquier (she/her) graduated in 2021 from Sciences Po Paris’ School of Research in History, after studying History and English at Sorbonne University. Her master’s thesis, directed by Giacomo Parrinello and Jean-Pierre Filiu, concentrates on the Cairo Water Company, created in 1865 by a French engineer with the encouragement of Khedive Ismail. Her research meets environmental with economic history and intends to show how economic interests shaped hydraulic infrastructures in Egyptian cities in the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. During her Master’s, she was hosted for a month by the CEDEJ (Centre for Economic, Judicial and Social Study and Documentation) in Cairo.

Baijayanti Chatterjee

Dr. Baijayanti Chatterjee (she/her) completed her PhD at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi in 2018. Her research, broadly, is on the environmental history of eighteenth-century Bengal, and attempts to explore how political and economic developments shaped its ecology. Baijayanti received a Master’s degree in Medieval History from Jawaharlal Nehru University, and obtained her Bachelor’s degree from Presidency College Kolkata. She was also a Charles Wallace Fellow to London in 2016. Baijayanti is currently employed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Seth Anandram Jaipuria College, Kolkata. Her publications include “A Communication Network in Transition: The Case of the Dawk-Chaukis in Eighteenth Century Bengal,” published in the Calcutta Historical Journal, and “Rivers of Bengal: The Role of the Fluvial Network in the Development of the Regional Economy” in the Internal Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Bava Dharani

U Bava Dharani (she/her) is a content editor for EHN. She’s a doctoral candidate in International Relations at the University of Sussex. Her research aims to interrogate how colonial and racial logics have informed the construction of Singapore as the Green Financial Hub of Asia. Bava is especially grateful to scholars that have developed conceptual frameworks such as racial capitalism, decolonial ecology, and postcolonial theory. 

Bethan le Masurier

Bethan le Masurier (she/they) is a PhD candidate at the University of Exeter. Her research focuses on finding new approaches to heritage management in the Anthropocene. Her thesis explores how we can create more equitable and happier futures by integrating anti-oppressive perceptions of time, change and nature into heritage theory. Bethan is also a musician, releasing folk-adjacent music under the name Bethan Le Mas, and a keen linguist, studying Spanish, Dutch, Cornish and BSL.

Camille Cole

Camille Cole (she/her) is a PhD candidate in History at Yale University, focusing on the histories of property and technology in nineteenth-century Iraq and Iran. Her dissertation explores how elites in late Ottoman Basra manipulated state tools and vocabularies to accumulate land. Wealthy land owners and tax farmers, responding to Ottoman regulation and the expansion of export-oriented production, combined land reclamation in the southern Iraqi marshlands with usurious futures contracts, fraudulent land deeds, and illegal border-crossing, among other strategies. Camille holds a BA from Pomona College and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge. Her work has been published in the Journal of Social History, Middle Eastern Studies, and South Asian History and Culture.

Carolina Granado

I am Carolina Granado (she/her), a PhD Candidate in History of Science at the Institut d’Història de la Ciència (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), focusing on the role of climate scientists in assessing climate change policies in the late 1980s. My research explores the tensions between scientific norms and advocacy within the scientific community, and how the presentation of scientific content frames political discussions around climate change. Currently, I am a Landhaus Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, where I am developing a six-month project.
As a woman born and raised in a working-class family, my scholarship is driven by a commitment to equity and environmental justice. My academic interests include Environmental History, Feminist Epistemologies, Environmental Justice, and Political Ecology. When I’m not immersed in reading in my office, you can probably find me hiking in the mountains or enjoying laughter and beer with my friends, my most loyal support.

Caroline Grego

Originally from South Carolina, Caroline Grego (she/her) is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Colorado Boulder, with a focus on the histories of race and racism, labor, and the environment of the American South. She currently has a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for her dissertation, “Hurricane of the New South: Disruption, Dispossession, and the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893,” which uses the deadly hurricane to expose political, demographic, economic, and environmental changes in South Carolina at the dawn of Jim Crow. Caroline writes more about South Carolina over at Erstwhile, an American history blog.

Caroline Kreysel

Caroline Kreysel (she/her) is a PhD candidate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research focuses on the environmental history of landscapes marked by intensive agriculture in the Netherlands and Brazil. In her research, Caroline foregrounds nonhuman agency and cultural historical perspectives to understand historic land use practices.

Carrie Alexander

Dr. Carrie Alexander (she/her) is a postdoctoral scholar for the Ethics and Socioeconomics Research Cluster for the USDA-NIFA/NSF AI Institute for Next Generation Food Systems (AIFS) at the University of California, Davis, in partnership with the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne, and Cornell University. Before taking on this role, Carrie earned her PhD in U.S. and Environmental History at UC Davis. Her current research focuses on the legal, practical, and ethical boundaries and cultural functions of deceit, risk, algorithms, and nuance in planning and governing the global food system.

In recent years, Carrie has worked as a public scholar, historian, and data scientist with the UC Davis DataLab and the State of California, and served as a Mellon Public Scholar with California Humanities. Prior to beginning her PhD program at Davis, she worked for ten years in web design and print publications for several large corporations, state organizations, and non-profits on the east coast. Originally from the Midwest and Colorado, she moved to Davis with her daughter in 2012 where they enjoy hiking, gardening, and dreaming together.

Catherine Peters

Dr. Catherine (Catie) Peters (she/her) is an interdisciplinary scholar working on her first book, which centers on the marketplace, coast, and seascape as sites where people of Asian and African descent built communities in the nineteenth-century Caribbean.

Celeste Henery

Dr. Celeste Henery (she/her) is a cultural anthropologist working at the intersections of race, gender, and health; specifically, what it means to feel well, individually and collectively, in these troubling times. Her broader research interests include black ecologies, feminisms, and diaspora studies. Celeste currently works as a Research Associate in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her writing on black life across the diaspora has been published in various academic journals and frequently appears on the blog Black Perspectives. In addition to her academic endeavors, Celeste works as a mitigation specialist, conducts interviews for the Texas After Violence Project, and guides others to creatively navigate their projects and lives.

Chloe Brimicombe

Chloe Brimicombe (she/her) is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wegner Center, University of Graz researching the impact of heat on maternal, infant, child, and health worker health. She is finishing her dissertation, titled “Too Hot to Handle: The Global Impact of Extreme Heat,” as part of her PhD in Environmental Science at the University of Reading. Chloe is interested in climate change, health, and heatwaves as well as improving access to and the diversity of science communication. 

Christy Hyman

Christy Hyman (she/her) is a digital humanist, environmental advocate, and PhD student in the program of Geography at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her dissertation research focuses on African-American efforts toward cultural and political assertion in the Great Dismal Swamp region during the antebellum era as well as the attendant social and environmental costs of human/landscape resource exploitation. Christy uses Geographic Information Systems to observe to what extent digital cartography can inform us of the human experience while acknowledging phenomena deriving from oppressive systems in society threatening sustainable futures. Christy has been invited to share her work at a range of humanities centers including the Dave Rumsey Map Center at Stanford University, the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Kansas and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities Digital Dialogues series to name a few. Christy will graduate with her PhD in Spring 2022.

Claire Perrott

Dr. Claire Perrott (she/her) received her PhD in Latin American History from the University of Arizona in 2020. In her dissertation, Claire studied the eruption of Parícutin, a volcano that appeared in a cornfield in Mexico in 1943. She uses visual sources to examine the relationship between culture and landscape in Mexico and the Americas. She will be an Instructor of Latin American History at Auburn University in the fall of 2020.

Daniella McCahey

Dr. Daniella McCahey (she/her) is a lecturer in European History and the History of Science at the University of Idaho. She received her PhD in 2018, where her research focused on geophysical sciences in the Ross and Falkland Islands Dependencies during the International Geophysical Year.

Delia Byrnes

Delia Byrnes (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation, titled Refining America: Energy, Infrastructure, and Environmental Art in the U.S. Gulf Coast examines petrocultures in contemporary fiction, photography, film, and visual culture. Her work has appeared in The Global South and the E3W Review of Books. Delia is the 2018-2020 Mentorship and Advocacy Chair of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature’s Emerging Scholars Organization, where she collaborates with her fellow Executive Council members to develop resources, platforms, and community-based projects for graduate students and junior scholars.

Diana M. Valencia-Duarte

Dr. Diana M. Valencia-Duarte (she/ella) is a former content editor for EHN. After completing a PhD in History at the University of Exeter, she currently a Lecturer in the History of the Global South at Aberystwyth University. In her research, Diana combines rural studies and food security theory with environmental history methods, aiming for practical impact and to inform food production debates.

Diana Rodríguez Cala

Diana is a Cuban woman with an academic background in biology, ecology, conservation and environmental education with experience in Cuba, the United Kingdom, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe. She is currently finishing her PhD focused on the human dimensions of plant invasions. She also has experience in co-furthering collaboration and engagement between different stakeholders around environmental challenges. Diana thinks of human societies as part of biodiversity —and hence environment.

Divana Olivas

Raised by Mexican immigrants in New Mexico, Divana Olivas (she/her) is a PhD candidate in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, with a certificate in Public Policy Advocacy. Her research interests include Chicana feminist thought, critical food studies, and histories of the American West. Divana’s dissertation is based on archival research and oral histories to understand the histories of environmental and food justice within the Chicana/o/x movement in New Mexico. 

Duygu Yıldırım

Duygu Yıldırım is an assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is the co-editor of Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds (Routledge, 2023), and her work has appeared in or forthcoming from History of Science, History of Religions, Journal of Ottoman Studies, and British Journal for the History of Science. She is currently an ACLS fellow. 

Edna Bonhomme

Dr. Edna Bonhomme (they/she) is a historian of science, lecturer, art worker, and writer whose work interrogates the archaeology of (post)colonial science, embodiment, and surveillance in the Middle East and North Africa. A central question of her work asks: what makes people sick. As a researcher, she answers this question by exploring the spaces and modalities of care and toxicity that shape the possibility for repair. Using testimony and materiality, she creates sonic and counter-archives for the African diaspora in hopes that it can be used to construct diasporic futures. Her practices trouble how people perceive modern plagues and how they try to escape from them. Edna earned her PhD in History from Princeton University in 2017. Currently, she is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Vlives in Berlin, Germany. Her work has been performed & exhibited in Berlin, Prague, and Vienna. She has written for Aljazeera, The Baffler, The Nation, and other publications.

Ela Miljkovic

Ela Miljkovic (she/her) is a doctoral candidate in Latin American History, and studies the environmental consequences of urbanizing and industrializing twentieth-century Mexico City. She is also trained in Public History and has written about the power of place in historic Houston, Texas neighborhoods undergoing gentrification. Ela holds a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Literature and Latin American Studies from the College of Idaho.

Elena Kochetkova

Dr. Elena Kochetkova (she/her) is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and a Research Fellow at the Laboratory for Environmental and Technological History of the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. She earned her PhD in Social Sciences in 2017 at the University of Helsinki. Her interests include the history of materiality of socialism and the Cold War, and the history of technologies and natural resources, with a particular focus on forestry.

Currently, Elena leads a research project on “The Material World of Late Soviet Society during the Cold War: Technological Innovations of Production and Practices of Representation,” supported by the Russian Science Foundation. She also is the Secretary of the European Society for Environmental History (2019-2021).

Elena Kunadt

Elena Kunadt (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the department for the History of Technology at the Technical University of Berlin where she also holds a teaching position. Her research interests lie in the history of twentieth-century agriculture and environment. Her dissertation project analyses the use of the herbicide atrazine in industrial corn production and its consequences for ground and drinking water in the United States and West Germany (1950-1991). During her research, Elena spent some time as a guest researcher at Iowa State University, in the heart of the U.S. corn belt, and as a fellow of the Science History Institute in Philadelphia. After Elena finished her MA degree “History and Culture of Science and Technology,” she worked as a Research Assistant at the Interdisciplinary Center of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Wuppertal, and at the Institute for Technology Futures at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Eline D. Tabak

Eline D. Tabak (she/her) is a doctoral candidate at the Rachel Carson Center / LMU Munich. Her research interests can be described as applying interdisciplinary approaches to explore creative practices on and narrative responses to environmental issues. She holds an MA (by research) in Comparative Literary Studies from the Universities of Utrecht and Amsterdam. In her dissertation on creative and scientific narratives of insect declines, she bridges approaches of extinction studies and animal studies, bringing ecocriticism to insect life.

Eliza Williamson

Dr. Eliza Williamson (she/her) is a cultural anthropologist who studies reproductive health care and disability in Brazil. Her first book manuscript tracks the implementation of maternal and infant health policy that seeks to “humanize” childbirth during a time of economic, political, and public health crisis. Her current research project attends to questions of care, disability, and the body in Zika’s aftermath. She lived in Salvador, Bahia from 2015 to 2019, where she conducted her dissertation fieldwork. Eliza is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Latin American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.

Elizabeth Hameeteman

Dr. Elizabeth Hameeteman (she/her) founded EHN in 2018. She’s currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Technische Universität Berlin, and obtained her PhD in History at Boston University in 2022. Her dissertation, titled “Pipe Parity: Desalination, Development, and the Global Quest for Water in the 1950s and 1960s,” explored the role of desalination as a seemingly viable adaptation strategy to reduce the impact of water scarcity and climate variability in the post-World War II period. Originally from the Netherlands, Elizabeth has a background in Law and American Studies.

Ellen Oettinger White

Dr. Ellen Oettinger White studies the environmental effects of transportation policy, practice, and infrastructure using spatial analysis and quantitative methods. She also conducts qualitative research in decision-making and interdisciplinary collaboration in transportation, planning, and allied fields. Prior to entering academia, Ellen spent a decade practicing as an urban designer and transportation planner. She is secretary of the Transportation Research Board’s Landscape and Environmental Design Committee and was a 2021-22 Landscape Architecture Foundation Fellow for Innovation and Leadership. Ellen completed her PhD and Master of Landscape Architecture at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and received her Master of Urban Planning from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Emily Rabung

Emily Rabung (she/her) is a PhD student in the School of Environment and Natural Resources at The Ohio State University. She is an environmental social scientist utilizing multiple social science disciplines to address environmental problems and solutions. Specifically, Emily studies the relationship between military land management and biodiversity conservation with an aim to understand and promote conservation success on training lands used by the U.S. Department of Defense. 

Emily Webster

Dr. Emily Webster (she/her) is a review editor for EHN. She’s an Assistant Professor in the History and Philosophy of Health and Medicine at Durham University. Her research focuses on the ecology of historical epidemics, drawing on contemporary biology and ecology alongside traditional historical methods to tell multi-species, multi-scalar histories of infectious disease that ground humans in their physical environments. She is currently working on her book project, Infectious Ecologies: A Biological History of Epidemics in the Urban British Empire, and a series of articles that examine the relationship between historical ecology and geographies of knowledge in the 19th century British imperial periphery.

Emma C. Moesswilde

Emma C. Moesswilde (she/her) is EHN’s outreach coordinator. She’s a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at Georgetown University. Her dissertation project investigates the relationships between climate change and agricultural practice by examining rural experiences of and adaptations to seasonal variability across the British Northern Atlantic from 1540-1816. Emma is committed to incorporating multidisciplinary methods and evidence to understand how rural communities responded and adapted to climate change over the course of the early modern period.

Born and raised in midcoast Maine, Emma has lived and worked in rural communities and environments for much of her life, including projects with Maine Farmland Trust and Maine Conservation Voters. She earned a B.A. cum laude in History and Environmental Studies from Bowdoin College in 2018, and an M.A. in History from Georgetown in 2021. Her scholarly work has contributed to publications such as Nature and H-Environment and been featured in Active History and NiCHE. Emma also co-hosts the podcast Climate History. She lives in Washington, D.C., where she can often be found looking for dinner ingredients at the farmers’ market or exploring parks with her dog, Mouse.

Emma Schroeder

Emma Schroeder (she/her) is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Maine. In her current work, she focuses on the intersections of citizen science, gender, and domesticity in the appropriate technology movement of the 1970s. Her research bridges the history of science, feminist science and technology studies, geography, and environmental history. Emma holds an MS in Geography from University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Endia Louise Hayes

Endia Louise Hayes (she/her) is a doctoral student in Sociology at Rutgers University, New Brunswick who studies the epistemological contributions of formerly enslaved women to social theory. She studies how formerly enslaved, specifically Afro-Texan women, intimately storytell with Texas land creating an alternative archive that corresponds to their radical ways of knowing Black female flesh, life, revolution, and its many geographies in Texas. Endia’s pedagogy seeks to push the sociological canon to be queer and BIPOC inclusive, encourages student’s role as knowledge producers centered within the classroom content, and, finally, encourages community engagement and transformation.

Erin Spinney

Dr. Erin Spinney (she/her) is a freelance writer and researcher currently affiliated with the Department of History at Mount Allison University. Her research interests focus on nursing, labour, environmental, and medical history in the long eighteenth-century British Empire. She has published on eighteenth-century naval nursing and environmental history.

Esme Garlake

Esme Garlake (she/her) is an art historian specialising in ecocriticism and early sixteenth-century Italian art. She believes in the power of art history to help us understand and re-imagine past and current human relationships with the natural world, and in the responsibility of art historians to engage with issues of social and environmental justice. Esme runs an Instagram account dedicated to exploring ecocritical art history and its intersections with climate activism. She will be starting a fully-funded PhD in History of Art at University College London in September 2023.

esther van ‘t veen

Esther van ‘t Veen, originally from the Netherlands, is a recent PhD graduate in history from York University, Toronto, Canada. She specializes in energy and environmental history. Her research looked at the development of the Westcoast Transmission natural gas pipeline system in Western Canada.

Evelyn Ramiel

Evelyn Ramiel (xey/xeir) is a review editor for EHN. After completing an MA at York University about human-microbe relations on Japanese warships, xey are writing a dissertation on the ecological and animal history of Japanese character merchandise, also at York University. On xeir off days, xey create and publish personal zines that range from collage picture books to surrealist visual essays about digital dolphins. Through both the dissertation and personal projects, Evelyn argues that media studies and history need to get weirder and more compassionate if scholars want to reach our readers and students in traumatic times. 

Faizah Zakaria

Dr. Faizah Zakaria (she/her) is an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University. Her research centers on religion and ecology in modern Southeast Asia, addressing themes of indigeneity and environmental justice. She is currently completing a book project on the intertwining of landscape and religious conversions in upland maritime Southeast Asia during the long nineteenth century. She holds a PhD in History from Yale University, an MA in Southeast Asian Studies and a BSc in Mathematics from the National University of Singapore. She loves talking about books, and is a podcast host on the environmental studies channel of the New Books Network.

Genie Yoo

Dr. Genie Yoo (she/her) is EHN’s editor-in-chief. She is a historian of island Southeast Asia, working at the intersection of history of science, medicine, environment, and religion. She is currently a Plant Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks and an incoming assistant professor in the Department of History at SUNY Buffalo (Fall ’25). She holds a PhD in History from Princeton University.

Genna (Genevieve) kane

Genna (Genevieve) Kane is a PhD Candidate in the American & New England Studies Program at Boston University. Her dissertation focuses on the environmental and architectural history of Boston’s waterfront since the nineteenth century. She studies the adaptations of the waterfront and its recent configurations as a climate resilient space. Her work has also been supported by the University of California Berkeley’s Environmental Design Archives and the Boston Public Library Leventhal Map & Education Center, among others.

Geri Mae Tolentino

Geri’s love for history, culture, and the environment inspired her to earn master’s degrees in Environmental Science and Asian Studies from the University of the Philippines. Currently, she is a Ph.D. student in Environmental Science at the State University of New York-College of Environmental Science and Forestry, supported by a Fulbright-CHED Ph.D. scholarship. Her research explores the colonial legacies embedded in green spaces, investigating decolonization strategies that address these landscapes’ visual, cultural, and ecological dimensions.

Gitte Westergaard

Gitte Westergaard (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Environmental Humanities affiliated with the Greenhouse at the University of Stavanger. Her research explores how museum practices and heritage management shape human understandings of nature. She holds a BA in History and an MA in Sustainable Heritage Management from Aarhus University.

Gitte is currently working on the research project, “Beyond Dodos and Dinosaurs: Displaying Extinction and Recovery in Museums.” Her focus is on the display of extinct island species through the lens of coloniality and narrative-building of mass extinction. Gitte also works as the editorial assistant for the Environmental Humanities journal. She has worked with museums such as the Women’s Museum in Denmark and Moesgaard Museum as well as the U.S. National Park Service at St. Croix, USVI.

Hannah Hunter

Hannah Hunter (she/her) is a PhD candidate and Vanier Scholar in Human Geography at Queen’s University. Her research explores bird sound and extinction through the lens of environmental history, STS, and sonic geography. Hannah has an MA in Environment, Development and Policy from the University of Sussex and a BA in International Relations from the University of Birmingham. She is also an audio storyteller with a passion for the role of sound in knowledge creation and mobilization. When not reading, writing, or recording, Hannah can be found biking or birding- usually at the same time!

Hannah Palsa

Hannah Palsa (she/her) is a lifelong resident of Indianapolis, IN. She graduated from Purdue University with a BA in History and a minor in English Literature in 2014. She graduated from Northern Illinois University in 2018 with her MA in History, concentrating on twentieth-century animal history, with an additional focus on hunting history and animal conservation. Hannah’s research is concentrated on the Dogs for Defense program of World War II and the K9 Corps. She is the first historian to study the Dogs for Defense program in depth, and just began her PhD at Kansas State University. She is owned by a very spoiled cat named Smokey.

Hanne Nielsen

Dr. Hanne Nielsen (she/her) is a lecturer in Antarctic law and policy at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania. She specialises in representations of Antarctica with a focus on advertising, the commercial history of Antarctica, and Antarctica as a workplace. Hanne has spent five seasons working in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean as a tour guide, serves on the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research’s Humanities and Social Sciences Steering Committee, and is currently leading two research projects on Antarctic tourism. When not at work, Hanne enjoys bushwalking, writing letters, and being a parent. 

Heather Green

Dr. Heather Green (she/her) is an environmental and Indigenous historian interested in resource development and industrialization, mining, health, environmental tourism, sport hunting, identity, and gender. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow with the Wilson Institute in Canadian History at McMaster University. Heather studies transnational tourism in the Yukon, specifically the rise of sport hunting and conservation policy and Indigenous engagement in the industry. She is also a Fulbright Canada scholar with the University of Arizona examining coal mining and economic relief among the Navajo in Arizona from 1950 to 2000. Heather is this year’s New Scholars representative for the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE).

Heather Rogers

Heather Rogers (she/her) is a graduate student in the Digital Humanities program at McGill University. Her research draws on the fields of critical plant studies, botanical history, and digital environmental humanities and explores how digital tools can be used to create space for stories of human-plant entanglements. Heather has a BA in International Studies from American University and a Master of Information Studies (MISt) from McGill University.

Hester Margreiter

Hester Margreiter (she/her) studied History, Sociology, and Management & Economics in Innsbruck, Vienna, Caracas, and New Orleans. She started her PhD with a Nick Mueller Fellowship at the University of New Orleans and then continued at the University of Salzburg, where she serves as research assistant at the Department of History. Currently, Hester focuses on Belle Époque tourism and regional history as well as human-animal relations in Alpine regions from a sociological perspective.

Isabelle Gapp

Dr. Isabelle Gapp (she/her) is an Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto. She holds a PhD in History of Art from the University of York (2020). Her research considers the intersections between nineteenth and twentieth century landscape painting, gender, environmental history, and climate change around the Circumpolar North. She is currently working on her first book, A Circumpolar Landscape: Art and Environment in Scandinavia and North America, 1890-1930, to be published by Lund Humphries as part of their Northern Lights series (forthcoming in 2023).

Isobel Akerman

Isobel Akerman is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. She studies the history of biodiversity, particularly how botanic gardens integrated environmental thinking into their research, education, and outreach in the late twentieth century.

Jake K. Bergen

Jake K. Bergen (they/them) is an Assistant Professor in Education at Winnipeg University. They obtained their PhD in Education at the University of Ottawa. They are passionate about social and environmental justice, and their teaching and research praxis is guided by intersectional critical theory. Jake’s current research focuses on the intersections of anti-racist, social justice, and civic education with teacher candidates in settler colonial contexts. They have also published in the fields of curriculum studies, youth civic engagement, citizen science, global citizenship education, and educational program design.

Jessica Johnston

Jessica Johnston (she/her) is a recent graduate of the University of Sydney’s Master of Peace & Conflict Studies. Her dissertation looked at the politics of refusal in the context of land-based resistance in settler colonial Palestine and so-called Canada. Her current research interests include resistance in multispecies worlds, environmental justice, food studies and the generative potential of everyday Indigenous resistance against resource extraction. Jessica now lives on the traditional lands of the Gadigal and Bidjigal people where she is a mother, a feminist, and an avid coffee drinker.

Jessica M. DeWitt

Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt (she/her) is a historian of Canadian and American environmental history. She’s the editor-in-chief and the social media editor of the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE).

Jessica S. Samuel

Dr. Jessica S. Samuel (she/her) is a scholar-activist who studies race, education, colonialism, and the environment, including where they all might converge, in the United States and abroad. Her recently completed dissertation, titled “From Virgin Land to Virgin Islands: Conserving ‘America’s Paradise,'” examines the racialized confluence of public education struggles, National Park conservation objectives, and U.S imperialism on the island of St. John. Prior to obtaining her PhD in American Studies from Boston University, Jessica taught high school English and Writing as a Teach for America corps member in St. Louis, Missouri. She is an alumna of the Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers Fellowship program and the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship. In 2018, after serving as an education policy fellow, she was appointed to the Racial Imbalance Advisory Council of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Currently, Jessica resides in the Caribbean and consults on education and environmental policy.

Joanne Yao

Dr. Joanne Yao (she/her) is a Lecturer in International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London. Her research centres on environmental history and politics, historical international relations, international hierarchies and orders, and the development of early international organizations. Her first book examines the construction of the “ideal river” in the European geographical imagination and investigates the ensuing political projects to actualize that vision through the creation of the first international organizations. Joanne’s current project focuses on the scramble for Antarctica and early space exploration as moments of “completing” our scientific knowledge of the global. The project aims to highlight how such moments of epistemic completion constitutes, reinscribes, and legitimates existing imperial and gendered hierarchies in international order. 

Josephine Goldman

Josephine Goldman (she/her) is a casual academic at the University of Sydney. Her recently completely PhD project, entitled “Diving into heavy waters: Water and gender in contemporary francophone Caribbean and Oceanian art and literature”, explored how cultural and gender identity shape expressions of human-water relationships, the transnational networks of connection present in local imaginaries of water, and the capacity of water as a material which holds onto the past and incubates imaginations of new futures. She holds a BA (Hons) from the University of Sydney, and will soon be awarded her PhD from University of Sydney. She has published in the Australian Journal of French Studies, Francosphères, Literature & Aesthetics and French Studies Bulletin. Alongside Dr Giulia Champion, she is co-organiser of the Oceans ECRP Working Group, a multidisciplinary group of salt- and fresh-water scholars which meets bi-monthly – please get in touch if you are interested in joining!

Julia Fine

Julia Fine (she/her) is a PhD student in History at Stanford University focusing on the food and environmental history of the British Empire. She holds a BA in History & Literature from Harvard University, and an MPhil in Modern South Asian Studies from the University of Cambridge. 

Julia Mead

Julia Mead (she/her) is a PhD student at the University of Chicago. Her research is on masculinity and coal mining in Czechoslovakia during the collapse of socialism. She has written for the Nation, New York Magazine, and elsewhere.

Julie Reimer

Julie Reimer (she/her) is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Geography at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, where her research explores the role of spatial planning and management in bridging ocean conservation and sustainability. She holds a Master of Marine Management from Dalhousie University and a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in biology from Queen’s University. Julie’s research experience spans conservation, social science, management, and land-based aquaculture. She has been actively engaged with environmental non-profit organizations in Atlantic Canada for five years, supporting work in education, science communication, and conservation advocacy. In addition to her passion for oceans and conservation, Julie maintains a daily at-home yoga practice (of over 1000 days!) and an annual read of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. 

Juliet Larkin-Gilmore

Dr. Juliet Larkin-Gilmore (she/her) holds a PhD in History from Vanderbilt University. Her research and teaching interests cluster around American Indian history, medicine and health, the U.S. West, and mobility. Her book manuscript, Native Health on the Move: Public Health and Assimilation on the Lower Colorado River, examines Mohave mobility, health landscapes on the Lower Colorado River, and the contradictions between public health policies and federal attempts to annihilate Native cultures in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Juniper Lewis

Juniper Lewis (they/them) is a doctoral student in Cultural Anthropology. Their research explores the relationship between humans and the environment by examining how people practice and learn ecotheology in United Methodist summer camps—leading them to take a critical look at the intersections of colonialism, race, gender and religion. As a non binary trans anthropologist in religious spaces, they are also interested in the queer church movement across denominations.

Justyn Huckleberry

Dr. Justyn Huckleberry (she/her) recently obtained her PhD in Environment & Resources from the University of Wisconsin—Madison. Her dissertation titled, “Memories of Dispossession: Relational Conservation and Mining Displacements in Botswana,” compared two sites of displacement (driven by copper mining and a national park) and how people’s relations shifted with shifting land tenure. Justyn lnow works as an environmental justice data analyst for the Communities First Infrastructure Alliance.

Kate Carpenter

Kathryn (Kate) B. Carpenter (she/her) is an MA student in History at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and received a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her research interests include environmental history, history of science, medicine, and technology, gender, and the American West. Her thesis explores the connection between health and public land policy at the Government Free Bathhouse in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Kate just started in the History PhD program at Princeton University.

Kate Grauvogel

Dr. Kate Grauvogel (she/her) holds a PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine from Indiana University-Bloomington. Her dissertation examined the ways in which women and research conducted on women’s reproductive bodies contributed to the development of pathological theories on blood clotting and the development of birth control pills. This research was supported by numerous awards including a National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant and a nine-month dissertation fellowship from the Science History Institute in Philadelphia. Kate’s recent research focuses on the history of medicine and the history of the built and natural environments, especially the development of hormones for therapeutic use and asylum architecture.

Kate McNally

Kate McNally is interested in how residents of small coastal communities respond to profound social and environmental change. She has worked in fishing communities across the North Atlantic, from the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador to the Shetland Islands of Scotland. Kate is a PhD candidate in sociocultural anthropology at Yale University.

Kate Stevens

Dr. Kate Stevens (she/her, Pākehā/settler) is a historian based at the University of Waikato in Aotearoa New Zealand. She studies 19th and 20th-century histories of cultural, environmental, and economic exchange in the Pacific, focusing on the ongoing impacts of British and French colonialism in the region. Kate’s projects include an environmental history of Suva, sensory histories and heritage of oil and soap commodities, and the role of Māori women in southern New Zealand whaling.

Katie Hemsworth

Dr. Katie Hemsworth (she/her) is a settler Postdoctoral Fellow at Nipissing University, situated on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg. She is a cultural-historical geographer with research interests spanning community-based research, sonic geographies, carceral geographies, and reparative environmental histories. For her doctoral research (Human Geography, Queen’s University), she examined the sonic geographies and histories of incarceration. Her postdoctoral work explores the utility of sonic methods and auditory ways of knowing for understanding past environments, with a focus on listening and de/colonization. Katie’s research draws on community-oriented, feminist, and Indigenous methodologies to interrogate colonial-scientific knowledges, more recently in relation to cultures of fieldwork and histories of interdisciplinarity in environmental research. Born and raised in Thunder Bay, Ontario, she currently resides in Calgary (Mohkinstsis).

Katie Kung

Katie Kung (she/her) is a PhD student at the Rachel Carson Centre in Munich. She has a BA in English Literature and French from the University of Hong Kong, and a MA in Transcultural Studies from the University of Heidelberg. Katie’s doctoral research focuses on the concept of invasive species and using invasive network as a counter-narrative.

Katie Schroeder

Dr. Katie Schroeder (she/her) recently completed her PhD at Case Western Reserve University working at the cross-sections of medical and environmental history. Her research project unpacks an all-but-forgotten public health crisis in the mid-nineteenth century that shaped early American perceptions of nuisance law, health and property rights, and the unequal distribution of harms. Examining quarantine as infrastructure, she underscores the influence of local politics, urban development, and changing spatial dynamics in the New York Harbor. Other research interests include death studies, historical geography, and bioethics.

Kato van Speybroeck

Kato Van Speybroeck (she/her) is a PhD candidate at KU Leuven, where she is presently engaged in an interdisciplinary research project between the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Division of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Trained as a human geographer and anthropologist, she is interested in exploring how socio-ecological relations are shaped and regulated within urban environments. Her doctoral research delves into how environmental conflicts rethink the city-nature nexus in contemporary environmental politics. Contested green spaces serve as the analytical entry point through which she examines Brussels’ interaction with spontaneous nature.

Katrin Kleemann

Katrin Kleemann (she/her) is a doctoral candidate at the Rachel Carson Center / LMU Munich in Germany, she studies environmental history and geology. Her doctoral project titled “A Mist Connection” investigates the Icelandic Laki fissure eruption of 1783 and its impacts on the northern hemisphere. She holds a master’s degree in early modern history and a bachelor’s degree in history and cultural anthropology. Katrin receives a fellowship from the Andrea von Braun Foundation, which supports interdisciplinary research. She also is the social media editor for the Climate History Network and HistoricalClimatology.com.

Kay Sohini

Kay Sohini (she/her) is a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow, a comics-maker based in New York, and a PhD candidate in English at Stony Brook University, where she is currently drawing her doctoral dissertation as a comic. In both her creative and academic work, she focuses on how comics can be utilized by scholars and artists alike in ethnography, in narrative medicine, in public health discourse, in resisting disinformation, and in espousing an equitable future for all. Her work on comics has been published in Graphic Mundi’s Covid Chronicles,  Assay: A Journal of Non-fiction Studies, Women Write About Comics, Solrad, and Inside Higher Ed, amongst others. Kay works on the editorial team of The Comics Grid, in the Executive Committee of the International Comic Arts Forum (ICAF), and is a member of the Feminist Leaders Council at Feminist Press. 

Kera Lovell

Dr. Kera Lovell (any pronouns) is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Utah, Asia Campus where she teaches courses on U.S. history, women’s history, and global citizenship. Lovell earned her PhD in American Studies at Purdue University in 2017 and is currently working on her book project that traces an undocumented method of postwar urban protest in which activists challenged police brutality and urban renewal by insurgently converting vacant lots into parks. This research has been recognized with numerous awards from the Graham Foundation, the Hoover Institution, and Purdue University’s Research Grant Foundation.

Keri Lambert

Keri Lambert (she/her) is a social and environmental historian of colonial and post-colonial Africa and a PhD Candidate in History at Yale University. Her current research examines the history of Ghana’s rubber industry from ~1880 to the present. Keri’s dissertation addresses questions around borderlands and belonging, economic development and imagined sovereignties, discourses of development, and more. Since 2013, she has conducted extensive archival, oral historical, and participant observation research in Ghana, the United States, and the United Kingdom on this topic, and has also worked and conducted research in Sierra Leone, Uganda, Tanzania, and Ethiopia.

Kimberly Aiken

Originally from Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA, Kimberly Aiken (she/her) is an early career professional now living in Norway. She focuses on stakeholder engagement, polar political policy, and diversity and inclusion. Her interests include Arctic indigenous traditional and local knowledge, and incorporating these knowledge systems in all areas of Arctic research, with the aim of informing policy and improving communication and collaboration between various stakeholder groups. In her work, Kimberly advocates for the protection of indigenous culture and heritage, the integration of indigenous knowledge in the science-to-policy interface, and the protection of the Antarctic Southern Ocean.

Kimberly completed a MA in International Environmental Policy from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. Her past professional experiences includes supporting projects relevant to the University of the Arctic‘s Thematic Network on Arctic Plastic Pollution. She drafted the publication of the Arctic Governance fact sheet for the German Arctic Office of the Alfred Wegener Institute, and supported updates to science-to-policy briefs for the Study of Environmental Arctic Change. Kimberly was also a fellow at the Center for the Blue Economy in 2019. She also participated in the 2019 International Partnerships for Excellent Education and Research Arctic Field Summer School, a Norway-Canada-USA collaboration project focusing on the changing cryosphere at the Arctic Institute of North America Kluane Lake Research Station in the sub-Arctic, Yukon, Canadian territory. Kimberly published her first commentary article, titled “Trailblazer in the Arctic: A Tribute to the First African American to Reach Both Poles,” with the Arctic Institute, and was an awarded recipient to the 2020 Arctic Frontiers Student Forum.

Kimberly looks forward to advancing her career and concentrating efforts on diversifying the polar community for a more equitable representation of youth, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color interested in the polar regions.

Knar Gavin

Dr. Knar Gavin (they/any) recently obtained a PhD in English at the University of Pennsylvania. Their research attends to representations of environmental crisis in late 20th- and 21st-century poetry and poetics, and they are especially drawn toward engaging the prefigurative political possibilities that emerge in works of docu- and eco-poetry to contend with U.S. imperial power. Knar is also the co-creator of the covidXclimate project at the Penn Program for Environmental Humanities.

Kristen Carey

Kristen Carey (she/her) is a PhD candidate in History at Boston University. She studies ideas and interventions surrounding population change in Africa. Her fieldwork and dissertation research focus on population policy in post-independence Tanzania. Prior to graduate school, Kristen received BAs in Philosophy and Political Science from the University of Montana.

Kristin Brig-Ortiz

Kristin Brig-Ortiz (she/her) is a doctoral candidate in the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Her dissertation examines how municipal administrators and residents cooperated and conflicted over how to manage their clean and waste water in Cape Colony and Natal port cities, roughly between 1840 and 1910. More broadly, Kristin is interested in the intersections of public health, the environment, and technology in nineteenth-century British South Africa.

Kuhelika Ghosh

Kuhelika Ghosh (she/her) is a Literary Studies PhD student in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research focuses on the intersection of postcolonial studies and the environmental humanities. She studies questions of multispecies justice, agency, care, and queer kinships within contemporary Anglophone literatures. Her writing has appeared in Edge Effects and is forthcoming in ariel: A Review of International English Literature. Prior to doctoral research, Kuhelika earned a BA in English and Communications from UCLA and an MA in Literary Studies from UW–Madison.

Kyuhyun Han

Dr. Kyuhyun Han (she/her) recentely obtained her PhD in History at UC Santa Cruz. Her dissertation focused on the bureaucratic management of forestry, wildlife conservation, and center-periphery relations in Northeast China from 1949 to present, viewing the forest as a site of complicated relationships between the central government, the local government, local ethnic minorities, and the indigenous environment.

Laura Tack

Laura Tack (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the University of Greifswald in the International Research Training Group “Baltic Peripeties” funded by the German Research Council (DFG). Her dissertation research focusses on the historic storm surges in the south-western Baltic Sea area and the perception of natural hazards as well as their interpretation through the lens of religion and narrative. Laura holds an MA in History and German studies from the University of Rostock and has worked in the museum field prior to starting her PhD. Her interests include environmental history and the history of the Baltic Sea Region.

Lívia Regina Batista

Dr. Lívia Regina Batista (she/her) is a content editor for EHN. She earned a PhD in Environmental Law at Universidade de São Paulo (USP), and her research interests include the intersection between environmental issues and intellectual property rights, climate change, international transfer of climate-related technologies, and environmental racism. Lívia currently works as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, Penryn Campus.

Lena Walschap

Lena Walschap (she/her) is a PhD candidate in History at KU Leuven and the University of Antwerp, studying rural coastal communities in medieval England from an environmental and socioeconomic perspective. Her PhD concerns peasant fishing on the late medieval English coasts as a coping strategy for climate-induced hazards. Previously Lena obtained a MA in History at KU Leuven with a dissertation on the influence of climate change on the evolution of viticulture in Leuven between 1400 and 1600.

Letisha Brown

Dr. Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Virginia Tech University. She completed her doctoral degree in Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin in 2018. Her research focuses on the intersection of race, class, and gender with respect to media representations of black female athletes as well as social relationships and food practices. Specifically, she has studied media representations of athletes such as Caster Semenya and Serena Williams in academic as well as public spaces—including The Shadow League. Letisha’s dissertation focused on the impact of social relationships (e.g. romantic, religious, and work relationships) and overeating, healthy eating, and food choices among college-educated black and white adults. Her current research includes representations of Black female athletes, in addition to the study of exercise and food habits among Black women. In her free time, she loves to cook, read (especially African-futurism), and travel. You can find her work in the South African Review of Sociology and the Palgrave Handbook of Feminism and Sport, Leisure and Physical Education.

Lidia Ponce de la Vega

Dr. Lidia Ponce de la Vega (she/her) is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Humanities in the Environment and Sustainability Program at William & Mary. She received her MA and PhD in Hispanic Studies from McGill University in 2017 and 2022 respectively. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of Latin American studies, ecocriticism, and digital humanities, especially regarding the epistemic (de)colonization of Latin American nature and biodiversity in digital archives. She has collaborated with the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) performing data collection analyses to identify gaps and biases in BHL’s catalogue. Lidia is currently working on a research project around the decolonization of (online) knowledge about nonhuman species that Latin American countries consider their national symbols—a decolonial critique of digital and non-digital epistemic and archival constructions of biodiversity and nation.

Ligia Arguilez

A fronteriza with deep ties on both sides of the border, Ligia Arguilez (she/her) is a PhD student in the Borderlands History program at the University of Texas, El Paso. She studies the U.S.-Mexico borderlands through culture and the environment. Her dissertation focuses on the human-plant relationship between the dominant desert shrub—the creosote bush—and the diverse peoples of the region over centuries. Her research reveals the plant’s ties to paradigms of progress and modernity, identity, memory, ecosensorial attachments to place, land use patterns, and perceptions of the arid North American deserts. Ligia is currently creating an oral history archive of people-plant histories from the U.S.-Mexico border. Her undergraduate research was on barbed wire and the incarceration of Mexican nationals in the U.S. at Mexican internment camps along the border in 1913-1914.

Lindsay E. Marshall

Dr. Lindsay E. Marshall (she/her) is EHN’s former community coordinator. She’s a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and holds a PhD in History from the University of Oklahoma and an MA in Liberal Arts from Stanford University. Lindsay studies the connection between public memory, K-12 education, Native history, and the history of the horse in the American West. Lindsay’s scholarship seeks to re-center Native people and Native history in North America’s historical narratives and public memory. She also serves as social media director for Natsu Puuku, a program dedicated to preserving wild horses and teaching Comanche horsemanship in Oklahoma.

Lindsay S.R. Jolivette

Lindsay S.R. Jolivette (she/they) holds an MA in East Asian Area Studies from the University of Southern California and is currently a PhD candidate in the department of East Asiant Languages & Cultures at the same university. Their research focuses on visual representations of Nonhuman Others in contemporary South Korean and Japanese ecohorror media, with a specialization in cinema. They are also the co-host of EcoCast, the official podcast of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE).

Lindsay Wells

Lindsay Wells (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the 2019-2020 Chester Dale Fellow in the Department of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her dissertation explores how art and horticulture transformed environmental thought in nineteenth-century Britain, with a focus on houseplant gardening and the British Aesthetic Movement. Her work has appeared in Victorian Studies, and she has received support for her research from the Huntington Library, the Winterthur Museum, and the Oak Spring Garden Foundation. 

Lisa Ng

Lisa Ng (she/her) is a strange gal with a passion for all things trash. She is interested in race, waste, data, and how their relationships to one another shape the roles of non-‘human’ subjects in social movements. She received BA from the CUNY Baccalaureate Program for Interdisciplinary Studies at Macaulay Honors College @ Brooklyn College, where she studied Urban Environmental Policy and conducted research at the intersection between waste management, politics, and environmental justice. She received an MA in Liberal Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center in Data Visualization, and completed a thesis titled “Cyborgs for Environmental Justice: East Asian American Stories at the 1991 People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit.”

Lisa is also a recipient of the 2019 Metro New York Leaders’ Fellowship, as she will not hesitate to tell you that she was born and raised in New York City and does not know how to drive. She credits the NYC public school system, in all its chaos and glory, for (almost) all that she has accomplished and will continue to accomplish.

Lorena Campuzano Duque

Lorena Campuzano Duque (she/her) is a doctoral candidate in History at Binghamton University. Her research examines ecological relationships and environmental change associated with the entrance of foreign gold mining companies during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in Antioquia, Colombia. Her research looks at how gold structured ecological relations in the region of Northeast Antioquia by analyzing gold mining’s signatures on the landscape, labor structures, and social arrangements. Second, Lorena’s project analyzes the social impact of mining in Northeast Antioquia and how the spatial signatures of gold mining affected daily lives and communities. Finally, her research historicizes the role of nature in mining, analyzing how unexpected conditions of this ecology such as anomalous climate, disease, types of soil, and geology affected and were affected by the industry.

Luísa Reis-Castro

Dr. Luísa Reis-Castro (she/ela) is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the USC Society of Fellows in the Humanities for 2021-2023. She earned her PhD in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS) at MIT. Her dissertation, titled “Vectors of Health: Epidemics, Ecologies, and the Reinvention of Mosquito Science in Brazil,” examined efforts to address the pathogenic viruses transmitted by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes—such as Zika, dengue, chikungunya, and yellow fever—and argues that their enrollment in various scientific and health campaigns can be understood as materializing a racialized politics of the Brazilian nation.

Lucía Díez Sanjuan

Dr. Lucía Díez Sanjuan (she/her) has a background in Economics, Philosophy, and Anthropology. She completed her PhD in Economic History at the University of Barcelona, carrying out research on the historical transformation of a Mediterranean agroecosystem from a sociometabolic perspective. Lucía’s academic interests include environmental history, ecological economics, sustainable development, agroecology, and biocultural heritage.

Lucile Truffy

Lucile Truffy (she/her) holds a master’s degree in contemporary history from Sciences Po (Paris). Her master’s thesis focused on the French Formica company, offering an economic and environmental history of the firm. Following on from this project, for which she was awarded three prizes, her current research explores the history of plastics in twentieth-century France.

Madeline Berry

Madeline Berry (she/her) is a PhD student in the Department of History at Mississippi State University. She studies twentieth-century U.S. environmental history and material culture, with a particular interest in consumption, the modern U.S. environmental movement, and conceptions of space. Her current research focuses on the distance running boom of the 1970s and the interactions between the natural world and runners, with a specific emphasis on the role of rural Pennsylvania. Originally from Altoona, Pennsylvania, Madeline completed her BA at Saint Francis University and worked in the field of environmental education at the Cambria County Conservation District. During her time at Mississippi State University, she has been the Agricultural History Society graduate assistant, a lecturer, and a teaching assistant.

María del Pilar Peralta Ardila

María del Pilar Peralta Ardila (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society and is also affiliated with the Amerika-Institut Cultural Studies, funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. Her dissertation revolves around the life stories of women leaders in defense and care of nature in southwestern Colombia from 1990 to 2022. Pilar holds a MA in Sociology from Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia.

Maria Daniela Sanchez-Lopez

Dr. Maria Daniela Sanchez-Lopez (she/her) is a Research Fellow at the Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies, Newnham College and a Research Associate at the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on the geopolitics of renewable energies and lithium in the South American salt flats of Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile. She is also the founder of the Lithium and Energy Technologies Forum.

Daniela has a background in Economics at Universidad Católica Boliviana, an MA in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Netherlands, and a PhD in International Development from the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. She also has a decade of experience in public policy research in international organizations like the United Nations Development Program (UNDP-Bolivia), Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF), and NGOs.

Marianne Dhenin

Marianne Dhenin (she/her) is a journalist and historian. Currently, she is a PhD candidate in Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Basel, a researcher in the Leibniz Cooperation Project “The Historicity of Democracy in the Arab and Muslim Worlds,” and a member of the academic staff at the Leibniz Institute of European History. Her dissertation explores how disease and public health shaped the social and spatial order of late 19th- and early 20th-century Egyptian cities. 

Marina Wells

Marina Wells (they/she) is a PhD candidate in American & New England Studies at Boston University and holds a BA from Colby College in art history and literature. They have been a fellow at such institutions as the Winterthur Museum and the Mystic Seaport Museum, and currently works as the New Bedford Whaling Museum’s inaugural Photography Collection Curatorial Fellow. Marina’s academic interests include gender and sexuality, oceanic studies, and nineteenth-century print culture, which influences their dissertation, “Making Men from Whales: The Visual Culture of Gender and Whaling in New England, 1814-1861.”

Mela Žuljević

Mela Žuljević is a design researcher from Mostar interested in maps, landscapes and development. She is currently a postdoc at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig, researching the cartography of peace agreements and its legacies in the landscapes of Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

Melina Buns

Melina Antonia Buns (she/her) is international and environmental historian, and a doctoral candidate at the University of Oslo. Her dissertation, titled “Green Internationalists: Nordic Environmental Cooperation 1967-1988,” analyses the environmental policies of the Nordic Council and their international entanglements. She is also interested in the history of environmental movements about which she published an article on “Marching Activists: Transnational Lessons for Danish Nuclear Protest” at Arcadia.

Mengmeng Sun

Dr. Mengmeng Sun (she/her) studied the history of science at Shanghai Jiaotong University, and obtained her PhD in 2018 with a dissertation on changes in the climate agenda from the 1960s to the 1970s. She is currently conducting her postdoctoral project on the history of phenology in Dep. III at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

Mennaallah Abotaleb

Mennaallah Abotaleb (she/her) is an Architectual designer, a MArch graduate student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an activist for the Middle East, and an ICLI teacher. Her interest in the political world has driven her curiosity and research. As the daughter of two Egyptian immigrants, Menna holds the country and the region very close to her heart. Spending many summers there, and even two full years of school, she found herself marching for the Egyptian revolution. Volunteer work and activism has shaped many aspects in her life, but architecture has become a way of expressing target issues such as the housing crisis, carbon emissions crisis, and natural disaster reconstruction.

Merlyn Maria Antony

Merlyn is a doctoral candidate at the School of Human Ecology at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi,India. She attempts to use a political economy and feminist lens to look at the fish economy in the Andaman Islands. Her disciplinary training albeit have been Mathematics and Development Studies, she continues in search of her voice. Through her work she explores the nature-society binary with focus on justice. And anytime when not fussing about work, she bakes.

Mica Jorgenson

Dr. Mica Jorgenson is an environmental historian specialising in natural resource history, especially gold mining and forestry. She is currently based at the University of Stavanger where she works with a group of scholars as part of the Greenhouse. Her research is on wildfire smoke in Scandinavia and Canada and is supported by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship. Mica completed a Masters at the University of Northern British Columbia and a PhD at McMaster University. Before moving to Norway in 2021, she held a postdoctoral position at the Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship and served as a Senior Advisor for the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations, and Rural Development in British Columbia. When Mica’s not writing or researching, she can be found playing in the mountains.

Monique Palma

Dr. Monique Palma (she/her) holds a PhD in History of Medicine from the University of Porto in Portugal. She loves to follow several clues, investigate the sources, and understand what really happened in the past, and wholeheartedly believes that the use of scientific methods in history is crucially important to social development. After obtaining a MA in History from the State University of Maringá in Brazil, Monique crossed the Atlantic Ocean to improve her skills, pursue a PhD, and conduct further research in environmental history. She currently works as a researcher in the ERC project DUNES at the Center of History of School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon.

Morgan P. Vickers

Morgan P. Vickers (they/them) is a content editor for EHN. They are a writer, researcher, community historian, ethnographer, and PhD candidate in the Department of Geography at the University of California at Berkeley. Morgan’s work illuminates Black geographies and ecologies, placemaking, federal dam and reservoir projects, moral geographies, community memory studies, and questions of belonging. Their current work focuses on swamplands, dam/nation, and drowned Black towns of the New Deal era.

Natalie R. Wilkinson

Natalie R. Wilkinson (she/her) is host of Ecotones Now, EHN’s companion podcast. She recently received her MA in History at the University of Oklahoma. Prior to OU, she studied Film at the San Francisco Art Institute. Natalie’s research interests lie in history of ecology and resource management.

Natascha Otoya

Natascha Otoya (she/her) is a content editor for EHN. She joined the History PhD program at Georgetown University in 2017. Her research focuses on the development of the oil industry in Brazil in the first half of the twentieth century. Natascha is particularly interested in human/nature interactions and how different groups, like politicians and scientists, viewed such interactions. Additionally, her research interests overlap with the field of history of science, as geology is a central element in the search and exploration of petroleum in Brazil, and she hopes to further develop collaborations with this branch of the natural sciences. Before coming to Georgetown, Natascha completed a Master’s degree in Social History at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. Non-academic interests include cycling, swimming in the ocean, and a new-found love for yoga. 

Natasha Myhal

Natasha Myhal (she/her) is Sault Ste. Marie Anishinaabe and Ukrainian, and grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio. Her research explores the intersection of Indigenous ethnobotanical perspectives, environmental change, and ongoing colonial practices in the Great Lakes. Her work employs an Indigenous political-ecology approach to examine the relationships between Indigenous peoples and ecological worlds. She is a PhD candidate in the department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder with an emphasis on Native American and Indigenous Studies. 

Netta Green

Netta Green is a historian of France and the French Empire, specializing in economic and legal history, gender and women’s studies, and history of the social sciences. She earned her Ph.D. from Princeton University in September 2022 and is currently a Martin Buber Postdoctoral Fellow at Hebrew University. She is working on a book manuscript entitled “Revolutionary Succession: Egalitarian Inheritance and the Unequal Distribution of Wealth, 1750-1850,” which explores the paradoxes of modern-day inheritance norms. Her most recent article “Longing for the Beheaded Father: Inheritance and Departmental Statistics under the Directory and the Consulate, 1795–1804,” can be found in the new issue of French Historical Studies 47 (2024). 

Nicole Hodgson

Nicole is a PhD candidate in Environmental Humanities at University of Western Australia. She has spent her working life in environmental and sustainability policy fields, and for the past 16 years has been a part-time lecturer in Sustainability at Murdoch University, as well as a researcher and writer for various environmental NGOs.

Nicole Tu-Maung

Nicole Tu-Maung (she/her) is a faculty member at the Parami Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences in Yangon, Myanmar. Her academic interests include human-ecological systems, political ecology, and wildlife management. In 2019, she earned her MS in Environment and Resources from the University of Madison-Wisconsin. Her Master’s thesis examined the role of the occult in influencing human-animal relations, land use, and economic development through the lens of contemporary Buddhist traditions in Myanmar. Previously, Nicole completed her BS in Environmental Science and Sustainability at Cornell University, and worked as a research assistant in the Department of Natural Resources. She also uses creative writing and fine arts to express her research and ideas.

Nicole Welk-Joerger

Dr. Nicole Welk-Joerger (she/her) is the former editor of our Tools for Change series. Currently a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at North Carolina State University, she is interested in how capitalist ideals have transformed human and nonhuman bodies. Nicole’s first book will focus on U.S. preoccupations with bovine bodies and the long history of American attempts to mold them into symbols of health and sustainability.

Noémi Ujházy

Noémi Ujházy (she/her) a research assistant at Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (RCAES HAS), Geographical Institute and a PhD candidate in Environmental Sciences at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. Her doctoral research focuses on the perception of landscape changes in the Danube-Tisza Interfluve, Hungary, for which she conducted interviews among local stakeholders and analysed historical documents. Noémi aims to explore how environmental knowledge and perception is entangled in the various forms of human-nature relations, and how transformations of landscapes are intertwined with scientific or social-political discourses.

During her studies, Noémi has visited the RAS Steppe Institute in Orenburg; the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford; and the Institute of Geography, University of Nottingham. Currently, she is involved in an interdisciplinary soil microbiome project and in teaching activities. Her future goals include examining the history of environmental sciences in Hungary from an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective.

Oviya Govindan

Oviya Govindan (she/her) is an environmental and economic anthropologist, who studies environmental processes, public finance and infrastructure, and everyday social and economic life. She holds a PhD in Anthropolgy from the University of California at Irvine and is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. In her dissertation project, Oviya showed that the shifting boundaries of land and water at the coast demand new ways of thinking about labor, environment, and value. She drew on 15 months of multi-sited ethnographic research with fishing communities, coastal residents, environmental activists, and bureaucrats in Chennai, India as they face twin crises of sea-level rise and massive industrial infrastructure building on the coast.

Perri Meldon

As a PhD student at Boston University, Perri Meldon (she/her) examines federal land management through the lens of public history. She considers how historic and present-day land practices of Black and Indigenous peoples can shape interpretive practices at public lands today. For three years and counting, Perri has also contributed to the National Park Service’s disability history initiatives.

Rachel Goldlust

Dr. Rachel Goldlust (she/her) recentely completed her doctoral studies at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Her thesis traced the environmental history of self-sufficient living  in Australia from the late nineteenth century until the present. Prior to commencing her studies, Rachel worked as a town planner and alternative living and sustainability educator. She also likes to spend time in the garden, bake, travel, and do pottery from time to time. Seeing that her work is particularly relevant to the current COVID-19 crisis, Rachel hopes to turn her thesis on the perennial yearning to go ‘Off-Grid’ into a book in the coming year.

Raechel Lutz

Dr. Raechel Lutz (she/her) is an environmental historian and she teaches History and the Humanities at the Wardlaw + Hartridge School. Her scholarly work investigates nature, energy, technology, and visual culture, and focuses primarily on the New York/New Jersey region. In addition to co-editing American Energy Cinema, Raechel is working on a manuscript that investigates the environmental history of two New Jersey oil refineries, and the project won the Alfred E. Driscoll publication award from the New Jersey Historical Commission in 2018. Environmental History and Technology and Culture have published her writings.

Ramya K. Tella

Ramya K. Tella (they/them) is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Geography at King’s College London. Their dissertation explores the linkages between territory and the civic epistemologies of climate change in India, and makes use of ideas of performance in environmental politics. Ramya’s research interests include postcolonial STS, enviro-legal geographies, and cultural histories of sport. Some of their recent work has involved studying the role of emotions in environmental narratives, and creating accessible and inclusive visual stories about climate change. 

Ramya Swayamprakash

Dr. Ramya Swayamprakash (she/her/Amma) is EHN’s executive fundraiser and also the co-editor of our Tools for Change series. She’s an Assistant Professor in Integrative, Religious, and Intercultural Studies at the Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, MI. A transnational and interdisciplinary environmental scholar who doctoral work focused on rivers, dredging, and the place of nature in the Great Lakes, Ramya’s research has been published in academic and public-facing avenues. She takes tea and dredging (not necessarily in that order) seriously. In addition to her work on the Great Lakes, Ramya is now going back to her earlier interest in dams in post colonial India. As a survivor of domestic abuse and as a single parent, Ramya’s scholarship is driven by a commitment to social/ecological justice and equity.

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Rebecca H. Bond

Dr. Rebecca H. Bond (formerly Bond Costa) (she/her) completed her PhD at Louisiana State University in 2016. She specializes in environmental history and environmental policy, with a particular interest in land- and water use practices. She has published with OHA’s Process blog and Southern Cultures, and she is currently working on a manuscript for the University Press of Mississippi that examines policies related to Louisiana’s coastal erosion crisis. In addition to her writings, Rebecca has also presented at numerous conferences, including the annual meetings of the Louisiana Historical Association and the Louisiana Studies Symposium. Finally, she has extensive instructional experience at state universities and community colleges and has taught classes on U.S. history, Western Civilization, World War II, and environmentalism in the United States.

Rebecca Le Get

Rebecca Le Get (she/her) is an environmental historian and ecologist, currently focusing on how the grounds of tuberculosis sanatoria in south-eastern Australia were used. She is particularly interested in how and why these landholdings frequently became nature conservation reserves in the later 20th century. Rebecca completed her PhD in History at La Trobe University in Melbourne.

Renée Landell

Renée Landell (she/her) is a multi-award-winning activist, an AHRC Techne-funded doctoral researcher, public speaker, and the founder/director of Beyond Margins. She is completing full-time PhD study in the School of Humanities at Royal Holloway, University of London. Combining the theoretical disciplines of postcolonialism and eco-criticism, her current research investigates the cause and effect of popular anti-black caricatures (‘Mammy’, ‘Jezebel’, ‘Mandingo Buck’, and ‘Sambo’) and the counter-responses to them in Anglophone Caribbean literature. She argues that the biopolitical control of Caribbean bodies is reflected in, and perpetuated by, the use of proprietorial language and controlling images which depict the Caribbean as virginal territory ready to be conquered. In so doing, she suggests that the responses to, and demythologization of, Western stereotypes by Anglophone Caribbean writers is an attempt to reclaim the Caribbean body and promote positive ecological practices. Alongside her degree, Renée performs scholar activism in an independent capacity through Beyond Margings, an organisation which celebrates and promotes the achievements of BAME students and staff across several stages of education; provides school outreach; diversity training; and launched award-winning anti-racism campaigns and events.

Rina Garcia Chua

Rina Garcia Chua (she/her) is currently taking up her PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of British Columbia Okanagan, where she is pursuing a project on “The Ecological Literacy of a Migrant Ecocriticism,” a cross-cultural analysis of Canadian and Filipinx ecopoetry that provides a literacy to trace transnational knowledges of identity, environments, and ecologies in migrant, settler, and indigenous citizenships. Her most recent publications are a book chapter entitled “The Germination of Ecological Literacy in a Third World Nation” in Environment and Pedagogy in Higher Education with Lexington Books, and a book review entitled “The Precarity of Energy Security and Environmental Activism in Southeast Asia” with the Asia-Pacific Social Science Review. Rina is also the editor of Sustaining the Archipelago: An Anthology of Philippine Ecopoetry, which was published by the University of Santo Tomas Publishing House in 2018 and was nominated for the National Book Award category of Best Anthology in English.

Roberta Biasillo

Dr. Roberta Biasillo (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in Contemporary Political History at Utrecht University. She earned a PhD in Modern European History at the University of Bari. She has been a Postdoctoral Researcher at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, and the European University Institute in Florence. Her research interests lie at the confluence of environmental history and political history. She has focused on the roles of marginal environments embedded in Italian nineteenth-century liberalism and African colonial environments in shaping Italian fascism. Her coauthored volume Mussolini’s Nature: An Environmental History of Fascism is forthcoming from MIT Press. She is working on a research project on the global environmental history of colonial Libya.

Rohini Patel

Rohini Patel (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto. She is interested in histories of colonialism, industrialism and ecological change, science and technology, and military geographies.  

Ruby Turok-Squire

Ruby Turok-Squire (she/her) is studying for an MA in English and Drama at the University of Warwick, where she holds the Performance and Pedagogy Bursary. She studied English Literature and Composition at Oberlin College and Conservatory. In 2015, she was awarded a Watson Fellowship to research the music of animals. Ruby’s first collection of poetry, The Phantom Fundamental, was published in 2017. Her poems have appeared in The Antigonish Review, Canadian Literature, Fugue, The Fortnightly Review, and The Music Times.

S. Marek Muller

S. Marek Muller (they/them) is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Texas State University. They research in the fields of environmental communication and rhetorical studies. Dr. Muller’s work emphasizes how animals and conceptions of animality have functioned in political, legal, and ethical argumentation. 

Sabrina Kirschner

Sabrina Kirschner (she/her) was born in the Rhineland area, where she lived until she moved to Aachen for college. After completing her studies, Sabrina earned a Diploma and a teaching qualification (state exam) in History and Spanish from RWTH Aachen University. After working for several years as a high school teacher, she is now a PhD candidate in History at Bundeswehr University. Sabrina is especially interested in the history of urban development policies on environmental issues. Her current project, titled “Discovering Urban Environment as a Field of Development Policy,” focuses on early urban development projects on air pollution management in Mexico City and water pollution management in São Paulo. For her project, she has conducted extensive archival research at the World Bank, the United Nations, the World Health Organization, and several archives and libraries in Brazil. Currently, she works at the Autonomous University East Belgium in Eupen.

Samantha Clarke

Samantha Clarke (she/her) is a doctoral candidate in History at McMaster University. Her dissertation examines how the fight against poliomyelitis fit into international and transnational relations between divided Germany, the USA, and the USSR between 1947 and 1965. “Medical relations” is a newer field in international relations, exposing the ways in which politics and ideology permeate supposedly “neutral” areas such as science and healthcare, and looks forward to contributing to this discussion. In her free time, Sam grows too many plants and feeds them to her rabbit.

Sarah Pickman

Sarah Pickman (she/her) recentely completed her PhD in History at Yale University. Her research considers the material culture of exploration and field science in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth centuries with a focus on quotidien expedition gear such as clothing, food, first aid kits, and tents. She is interested in how these and other mundane items have acted as cultural mediators and embodiments of Western colonialism, and have shaped travelers’ physical and emotional experiences of place, particularly in regions commonly referred to as “extreme environments.” Her essay on clothing for polar expeditions at the turn of the twentieth century appeared in the catalogue for the exhibition Expedition: Fashion from the Extreme (Museum at FIT/Thames & Hudson, 2017), and her writing has appeared in digital publications such as Cosmologics, Somatosphere, History of Anthropology Review, and the Journal of the History of Ideas blog. Sarah’s work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the American Geographical Society, the Hagley Museum and Library, and the MacMillan Center at Yale University.

Sarah Qidwai

Dr. Sarah Qidwai (she/her) is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Regensburg. Broadly speaking, she works on transnational and local perspectives of various scientific disciplines during the long nineteenth-century. Her research specialties and teaching interests include, but are not limited to, British imperialism in the long nineteenth century, science and colonialism, South Asian studies, the relationship of science and Islam, and the history of evolutionary biology. Sarah’s dissertation and initial book project focus on the Muslim polymath Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817-1898). Through an interdisciplinary approach, she investigates the development and implementation of Sayyid Ahmad’s scientific popularization efforts and how he dealt with science’s role in its historical context. Sarah is also one of the organizers of Virtual HistSTM.

Saskia Brill

Saskia Brill (she/her) is a doctoral student at the Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society in Munich. She studied social and cultural anthropology, economics, and communication at LMU Munich and the Université Laval, Québec. She is primarily interested in the interplay of economic and cultural aspects of human-environment relationships. In her current research project, Saskia looks at the local effects of carbon offset markets with a focus on land use strategies and forestal carbon storage projects. The research was mainly conducted on Heiltsuk territory at Canadas Pacific coast. 

Shelby Brewster

Dr. Shelby Brewster (she/her) is a former content editor for EHN. She is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Michigan State University, where she is Associate Editor of the Public Philosophy Journal. Shelby received her PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Pittsburgh in 2021. Her scholarly interests include environmental humanities, theories of (post)humanism, and editorial theory and practice. Shelby’s work has been published in Performance Research, Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, and Theatre Journal, in addition to several online venues.

Simone Schleper

Dr. Simone Schleper (she/her) is a postdoctoral researcher in History and STS at Maastricht University. For her current project, she researches scientific and popular approaches to understanding and managing animal migration in the context of twentieth-century processes of globalization. Since earning her PhD in early 2017, Simone has held teaching, research and managing positions at the University College Maastricht, the Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz, and the University Library, Maastricht. Her recent book Planning for the Planet discusses the politics of expertise in international environmental organizations of the postwar period.

Sofía Mercader

Dr. Sofía Mercader (she/her) completed her PhD in Hispanic Studies at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom in 2018. Her research interests are twentieth-century Argentine and Latin American literature, politics and culture, magazines, and intellectual networks. Her PhD thesis examined the recent history of Argentina’s cultural and political development through the perspective of intellectuals. In particular, it focused on the trajectory of the intellectual cohort grouped around the magazine Punto de Vista (1978-2008), one of the most influential cultural publications in Latin America. Sofía’s is currently working on a postdoctoral proposal about feminism and magazines in Argentina and Mexico during the late-twentieth century as well as on the manuscript of her book Intellectuals in Transitions, based on her PhD dissertation.

Sofia de la Rosa Solano

Sofia de la Rosa Solano (she/her) is interested in environmental history, political ecology and environmental justice. More specifically, she’s interested on how inequalities are expressed in both society and space, particularly through water. Sofia first started looking for tolls that would allow her to overcome the harsh division between humanities and natural sciences during her BA in History at the National University of Colombia. After graduating, she worked for institutions in Colombia that had been mostly interested in natural research, like the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Environmental Research, Bogota’s Botanic Garden and the NGO Tropenbos International. After two years of work experience, Sofia moved to Amsterdam to start her MA in Latin American Studies, where she found the flexibility to adapt the program to her own interests and focus in socio-environmental topics and water studies. She finished this program at the end of 2018. Now she is part of the RECOMS ITN, a Marie Sklodowska Curie (MSCA) Innovative Training Network funded by the European Commission.

Sophie Chao

Dr. Sophie Chao (she/her) is Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) Fellow and Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney. Her research in anthropology and the environmental humanities investigates the intersections of Indigeneity, ecology, capitalism, health, and justice in the Pacific. Sophie is author of In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua (Duke University Press, 2022), which received the Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award in 2021. She is also co-editor of The Promise of Multispecies Justice (Duke University Press, 2022) with Karin Bolender and Eben Kirksey. Sophie previously worked for the human rights organization Forest Peoples Programme in Indonesia, supporting the rights of forest-dwelling Indigenous peoples to their customary lands, resources, and livelihoods.

Sritama Chatterjee

Sritama Chatterjee (she/her) is a PhD student at the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. Currently, she is interested in exploring the intersections between Postcolonial Studies and Black Studies by understanding how the tension between water as a material entity and its ordering into spatial forms can help in imagining alternative forms of sovereignty, modernity, and citizenship in the Indian Ocean Rim. Sritama was awarded the Sasakhawa Youth Leader Fellowship (SYLFF 2017) by the Tokyo Foundation for her MPhil thesis, in which she demonstrated how the river Hugli in India, as a fluvial conduit and space, inflict and mediate the ideology of the Empire in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth century in India, particularly focusing on migration, economy, and ecology.

Subarna De

Subarna De (she/her) is a Landhaus Fellow at the LMU / Rachel Carson Center. She researches the transformations of the environment and society, focusing
on bioregionalism and indigeneity. Subarna’s research is situated at the interface of cultural anthropology, human geography, environmental history, and environmental humanities scholarship. She holds a second appointment as a Research Associate at the Ideate Design Studio in New Delhi, where she applies bioregional research to work on field-based environmental, architectural, and conservation practices.

Subarna’s doctoral thesis (2019)—funded by the Central University Doctoral Fellowship (India) and supported with a research stay at Queen’s University—focused on the environmental history and ecological practices
of Indian coffee plantations.

Susie Protschky

Susie Protschky is Professor of Global Political History at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She is the author of the books Images of the Tropics: Environment and Visual Culture in Colonial Indonesia (Brill 2011) and Photographic Subjects (Manchester University Press 2019). Her work on Indonesian environmental history and colonial war has been published in Indonesia, History of Photography, BKI (Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia) and Gender & History, among others.

Tamara Fernando

Tamara Fernando (she/her) is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, working on a multi-sited history of natural pearling in the Indian Ocean across Lower Burma, Ceylon, and the Persian Gulf in the nineteenth century. Her interests include environmental history, oceanic history, and histories of the non-human.

Tanja Riekkinen

Tanja Riekkinen (she/her) is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Oulu, Finland. Her dissertation examines sociotechnical imaginaries related to oil in Finland from the 1950s to the first oil crisis in 1973. Tanja’s work has received funding from Kone Foundation, Otto A. Malm Foundation, and Kerttu Saalasti Foundation.

Tanya Matthan

Dr. Tanya Matthan (she/her) is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics. Her current research examines the politics of agrarian risk in central India.

Taylor Dysart

Taylor Dysart (she/her) is a doctoral student in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She is interested in the historical interfaces between popular mental healing, the human sciences, and biomedicine in modern Latin America. Taylor’s dissertation examines the role of several plant medicines, derived from vines, leaves, and roots, in orchestrating and destabilizing the complex relationships between popular healers, human scientists, and physicians in twentieth-century Peru. 

Tenaya Jorgensen

Tenaya Jorgensen (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities in Dublin, Ireland. Her research focuses on Scandinavian activity, movement, and settlement during the early Viking Age, from 790 to 920. Her goal is to collect all contemporary textual and archaeological evidence into a single digital database, which will operate in conjunction with a corresponding GIS metadata map. In this way, Tenaya hopes to create a more complete understanding of how the Viking Phenomenon came about, and how it changed the face of Europe and beyond.

Teresa Pilgrim

Teresa Pilgrim (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the School of Literature and Languages at the University of Surrey. Her research examines the intersection between women, landscape, and the environment in early medieval texts which are authored by women and/or are about women and the landscapes they inhabit. Her feminist project seeks to reclaim the lost voices of early medieval women through a concern for the environment. Previously, Teresa completed a Masters in Medieval Literature and Culture and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. She is a member of the New Approaches to Medieval Literatures Research Group, and the Sex, Gender and Sexualities Research Group at the University of Surrey.  

Teresa Walch

Dr. Teresa Walch is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is a historian of modern Europe and modern Germany with research and teaching interests in social and cultural history, urban history and urbanism, human geography, Holocaust studies, and world and transnational history. Her current research examines the politics of space and place in modern Germany. Teresa is working on a book manuscript that investigates the relationship between Nazi ideology and spatial practices between 1933-1945. She argues that Nazism should be understood as a spatial project to make Germany judenrein and that antisemitic notions of a Germany infected by Jews immediately and forcefully inspired efforts to “cleanse” spaces of Jews and Jewish influences, instigating property confiscations and vandalization, urban renewal projects, and segregation policies. 

Theresa Atutu

Theresa Atutu (she/her) is a PhD student in Environmental History at Groningen University, working on the diversity of cultural and political responses to environmental change in the Niger Delta as part of the AFREXTRACT comparative study project. She holds a BA in History and a MA in Global Environmental History. Her MA thesis centered on the assessment and exploration of oil management in the Niger Delta and the cultural, economic, environmental, and political responses to this. Theresa is passionate about history, sustainability, and cultural studies, and would like to continue to research and have conversations in academia regarding these.

Tiffany González

Dr. Tiffany González (she/her) is the Postdoctoral Fellow in Women’s History at the Newcomb Institute of Tulane University. She earned her PhD in American History at Texas A&M University. Her research interests include Mexican American/Latinx history, women and gender, and American politics. Tiffany is revising her dissertation into a book manuscript. Her work has received support from the American Association of University Women, the Organization of American Historians, CMAS-Benson Latin American at the University of Texas, Austin Fellowship, the Coalition for Western Women’s History, and other prestigious entities. Tiffany is also a co-host of the New Books in Latino Studies podcast on the New Books Network, and has worked extensively as a public historian utilizing oral history methodology and managing a physical and digital archive.

Tiffany Nichols

Dr. Tiffany Nichols (she/her) recentely obtained her PhD in the History of Science at Harvard University. Her disseration centered on how place, surrounding environment, and laboratory are embedded in the output signals of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). In this vein, she focuses on how physicists and engineers understand what is a gravitational wave signal and what is merely noise generated by the instrument, its location, and surrounding environment. Prior to her PhD studies, Tiffany earned both a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Electrical Engineering and a Juris Doctor (JD) at the University of Virginia. Her legal practice focused on intellectual property (IP) litigation, patent prosecution, and IP portfolio management. In addition, Tiffany is the 2019 and 2020 Chair for the Forum of Graduate Student Affairs of the American Physical Society.

Trang Dang

Trang Dang (she/her) is a content editor for EHN. She’s a PhD student at Nottingham Trent University, and has a BA and an MA in English Literature from Oxford Brookes University. Her project focuses on Jeff VanderMeer’s weird fiction, exploring narratives of co-existence between humans and nonhumans and the role of new weird novels in portraying the current climate crisis. Trang’s main research interests are contemporary literature, cli/sci-fi, critical theory, and continental philosophy. She has published on the topics of animal studies, American culture and politics, and contemporary critical theory concerning the Anthropocene. 

Valeria Zambianchi

Valeria Zambianchi (she/her) is a PhD candidate at KU Leuven, Faculty of Social Sciences, and Utrecht University, Faculty of Geosciences. As part of her PhD, she works on the ERC-funded project PolyCarbon. She is researching the history of policyscapes affecting climate change mitigation in the UK and the effects of policy interactions on the uptake of solar PV in England and of offshore wind in the North Sea. Valeria has an interdisciplinary background across the social sciences and environmental studies (University of Pavia, University of Copenhagen, and Cambridge University). She is keen to study histories of (in)coherent worldviews and narratives in environmental planning, exploring the socio-ecological and political effects of various (in)coherences.

Willa Hammitt Brown

Dr. Willa Hammitt Brown (she/her) is a Preceptor in Expository Writing at Harvard University. She received her PhD from the University of Virginia in 2017 and is currently turning her dissertation, “Gentlemen of the Woods: Manhood, Myth, and the American Lumberjack, 1860-1920,” into a book manuscript. Willa is a columnist and podcast host for Off Assignment, and has appeared on NPR, the CBC, and TheAtlantic.com.

Ximena Sevilla

Dr. Ximena Sevilla (she/her) recentely completed her PhD in Environmental and Latin American History at the University of Kansas. Her dissertation, titled “On the Edge of the Wild: Representations of the Montaña Region of Peru before the Rubber Boom,” explored the historical meanings that indigenous peoples, Spanish conquistadors, missionaries, scientific explorers, and early national elites have ascribed to the montaña region of northern Peru during the colonial period. In tracing these views of the montaña over the long durée, Ximena’s project contributes to the understanding of ways in which the material environment of this montaña region has influenced the social and economic relationship of outsiders and locals, while also considering environmental change as a product of human interventions in this place.

Yolima Vargas Garzón

Yolima Vargas Garzón (she/her) is a PhD Candidate in Environmental Education at Salamanca University. She’s a biologist with expertise in virtual education and sustainable tourism, and also a workshop facilitator within the Bildung trifft Entwicklung (BtE) program in Germany.

Ysabel Muñoz Martínez

Ysabel Muñoz Martínez (she/her) is a PhD candidate in English Literature at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, where she works with the transdisciplinary project “Narrating Sustainability.” She holds a bachelor in Letters from the University of Havana (2017) and received a Chevening scholarship to complete the MLitt. Environment, Culture and Communication at the University of Glasgow (2021). Ysabel is an environmental humanities scholar whose research interests include Caribbean culture, material ecocriticism, ecofeminism, post/decolonial studies and affect theory. As an activist, she has written several articles and participated in campaigns and conferences working towards sustainability in the Caribbean context.

Bathsheba Demuth

Dr. Bathsheba Demuth (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University, where she teaches courses in environmental history, energy history, and animal history. Her research focuses on the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic, an interest that began when she was 18 and moved to the village of Old Crow in the Yukon Territory. For over two years, she mushed huskies, hunted caribou, fished for salmon, tracked bears, and otherwise learned to survive in the taiga and tundra. In the years since, she has visited Arctic communities across Eurasia and North America, exploring how the histories of people, ideas, places, and non-human species intersect. Her first book, titled Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait, was published through W.W. Norton in August 2019. Demuth has a BA and MA from Brown University, and completed her PhD in History from the University of California at Berkeley in 2016.

Kaitlin Stack Whitney

Dr. Kaitlin Stack Whitney (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in Science, Technology, and Society at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY. She received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was active in the Center for Culture, History, and Environment as well as the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies. Previously, she also worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Pesticides and, before that, as part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farmer to Farmer program in Eastern Europe. She lives in a bilingual American Sign Language / English household.

Jackie Gonzales

Dr. Jackie M.M. Gonzales (she/her) works as a research historian with Historical Research Associates, Inc. (HRA), where she writes administrative histories, conducts oral histories, researches in support of environmental litigation, and curates interpretive exhibits. Outside of her work at HRA, Jackie is completing a book manuscript based on her dissertation, “Coastal Parks for a Metropolitan Nation: How Postwar Politics Shaped America’s Shores.”

Jenni Karimäki

Dr. Jenni Karimäki (she/her) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Parliamentary Studies located in the Department of Philosophy, Contemporary History and Political Science at the University of Turku. Her research interests include political ideologies and parties in contemporary history.

Katy Kole de Peralta

Dr. Katy Kole de Peralta (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of history at Idaho State University. Her research integrates the history of medicine and environment on early-modern Iberia and Peru to 1) capture the intrinsic, and historical relationship between environment and health in urban areas; 2) demonstrate the evolution of health as a fluid, changing concept depending on the social and cultural context within which it was produced; and 3) use the digital humanities and open-access platforms to make enviro-health history accessible to English- and Spanish-speaking audiences.

Lisa FitzGerald

Dr. Lisa FitzGerald (she/her) is based in the English Department at Université Nice Sophia Antipolis. She is an environmental historian, ecocritic, and arts researcher whose interests include environmental art practice, theatre and performance, new materialist theory, and the relationship between environmental and digital aesthetics. She holds a PhD from the National University of Ireland, Galway and has completed postdoctoral fellowships at the Centre de Recherche Breton et Celtic (CRBC), Université Rennes 2, and the Rachel Carson Center / LMU Munich.

Celeste Henery

Dr. Celeste Henery (she/her) is a cultural anthropologist working at the intersections of race, gender, and health; specifically, what it means to feel well, individually and collectively, in these troubling times. Her broader research interests include black ecologies, feminisms, and diaspora studies. Celeste currently works as a Research Associate in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her writing on black life across the diaspora has been published in various academic journals and frequently appears on the blog Black Perspectives. In addition to her academic endeavors, Celeste works as a mitigation specialist, conducts interviews for the Texas After Violence Project, and guides others to creatively navigate their projects and lives.