Fellows

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Clare Bradford Anderson is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at Harvard University.  Her Ph.D. dissertation blends history of science, environmental history, and the variegated histories of the British Empire to describe the role of the...

Richard Yu-Cheng Shih (施昱丞) is an environmental historian from Taiwan whose research investigates the history of human interactions with the riverine ecology in modern China after 1800, specifically the Yangzi Delta. His dissertation explores the making...

Aviroop Sengupta is a historian of science, researching the conceptual-material careers of evolutionary theory, ecology and other allied animal and human sciences in colonial and early post-colonial South Asia. He is reworking his doctoral dissertation...

Pooja Sen is a scholar of contemporary art, media, and postcolonial and Marxist theory. She received her Ph.D. in History of Art and Film and Media Studies from Yale University. Her current book project, The World Builders, looks at contemporary artists...