Adelaide Mandeville is a PhD candidate in American Studies at Harvard. Her dissertation, “Changes in the Sky: The Rise and Fall of Weather Control in the Twentieth-century United States,” examines the American preoccupation with managing, modifying, and...
Tim Shao-Hung Teng is a doctoral candidate in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, where he holds a Presidential Fellowship. His research focuses on the ecological properties of Chinese-language cinema and media from the late...
Clara Wilch is an interdisciplinary scholar who researches how ecology and performance interrelate with an interest in social and material forms of climate change mitigation and adaptation. Her current book project illuminates the climatic influences of...
Lindsay O’Connor Stern is an American novelist and received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University. Her current book project, Second Nature, rethinks the legal fiction of the “person” from the perspective of 20th century literature and...
Jason de Lara Molesky is Assistant Professor of English at Saint Louis University (beginning in 2024), with specialties in modern and contemporary American literature. He holds an MFA from the University of Mississippi and a PhD from Princeton University...
Tobias Hrynick is an environmental and digital historian, who conducted his PhD. training in medieval history at Fordham University. Hrynick specializes in the institutional responses of pre-modern local governments to environmental stress. His previous...
Rebecca H. Hogue (she/they) grew up on the island of Oʻahu and writes about empire, militarization, and the environment in the Pacific Islands and Oceania. Her current book project, Nuclear Archipelagos, examines Indigenous women’s anti-nuclear arts and...
Nataya Friedan is a cultural anthropologist whose work focuses on climate change misinformation in North America. Her current book project, Selling Swampland to Yankees, is about the political life of scientific evidence in Houston during intensified...