Current Fellows

Born and raised in Estonia, Oliver Aas is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of environmental humanities, visual studies, and comparative literature. His current book project, Arctic Forms: Literature, Art, Politics , examines the...

Lama Elsharif is a historian of the early modern and modern Middle East and North Africa whose work rethinks Mediterranean history from the perspective of Ottoman North Africa. Her research explores how the intersections of environmental crises, political...

Pujita Guha is an artist, curator, and scholar whose research interests hover around environmental humanities, media studies, science and technology studies, and Global Indigenous studies. She received her PhD in Film and Media Studies from the University...

Manuela Luengas Solano is a Latin American cultural studies scholar whose areas of expertise include environmental humanities, contemporary art and media, and cultural anthropology. Her current book project, River Archives: Sedimentation, Fluidity, and...

Cana (KAY-nuh) McGhee is a PhD candidate in Historical Musicology at Harvard University. Her research and teaching rely on methods from environmental studies and history of science to explore how ideas about listenership and musicality can shift our...

Julia Mead is an environmental historian of modern Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on energy, gender, and labor. She received her PhD in history from the University of Chicago in June 2025. Her dissertation, “Lights Out: Mining Masculinity and...