Current Fellows

Max Bridge

Postdoctoral Fellow
Max Chervin Bridge is an environmental historian and a historian of knowledge, science, and the body. They received their PhD in History from Brown University in 2026. Their dissertation - "Oceanic Listening: Sound, Cetaceans, and the History of Sensory...
Max Bridge

Eirann Cohen

Postdoctoral Fellow
Eirann Cohen works at the intersection of Francophone Caribbean studies, environmental humanities, gender studies, and decolonial thought. Her dissertation, "Cultivating the Creole Garden: Feminist Ecologies of the Postcolonial French Antilles," examined...
Eirann Cohen

Alba Elliott

Interdisciplinary Dissertation Completion Fellow
Alba Sofia Elliott is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, studying a joint track of French and Spanish, with a secondary field in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She works at the intersection of animal studies...
Alba Elliott

Cynthia O'Neill

Postdoctoral Fellow
Cynthia O’Neill is an interdisciplinary scholar and artist working at the intersection of environmental humanities, disability studies, creative practice, and critical media. Her research develops eco-crip theory to examine how public landscapes shape...
Cynthia O'Neill

Anna Speyart

Postdoctoral Fellow
Anna Speyart is a social and cultural historian of science working on early modern Europe, focusing on the science and technology of cold in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, tracing the use of ice and snow from harvest to application in scientific...
Anna Speyart