2022 - 2023

Ryan Fontanilla is a History PhD candidate at Harvard, studying the environmental and cultural history of the African diaspora in the Americas, particularly Jamaica. His dissertation project, “Stealing Freedom: Water, Death, and Power in Post-Emancipation...

Chloe Chapin is a PhD candidate in the American Studies program, with an AM in History and secondary concentrations in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Classical Archaeology. In her dissertation, “Tailoring America: Masculinity in the Early...

Joseph Whitson received his PhD in American Studies from the University of Minnesota. He works at the intersection of environmental humanities, Indigenous studies, and new media, interrogating the role of settler-colonialism in the natural world. His...

Meg Perret (she/they) completed her Ph.D. in History of Science with a secondary field in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies from Harvard University. Her areas of expertise are environmental humanities; science and technology studies; and feminist...

Katerina Korola is an art historian and media scholar whose work focuses on the history of photography, cinema, and modern art in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, with an emphasis on the intersection of technical media and the environment. Her...

Jordan B. Kinder is a Métis and settler-British media studies and environmental humanities scholar from a resource town in what is now known as northern British Columbia, Canada. He studies the cultural politics of energy, infrastructure, media, and...

Kessie Alexandre is an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research organizes around questions of risk and ethics; environmental racism; climate justice and the social implications of climate change adaptation...

Julio Aguilar received a PhD in History at UC Davis, specializing in environmental and Andean social history. At the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard, he will expand the humanistic and interdisciplinary foundations of his first book tentatively...