Taylor Rose has been awarded the Fellowship in Aerospace History, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The Fellowship includes a stipend of $21...
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Joseph R. McConnell, Michael Sigl, Gill Plunkett, Andrea Burke, Woon Mi Kim, Christoph C. Raible, Andrew I. Wilson,...
Yale Environmental History has postponed its planned conference, “New Perspectives in Environmental History,” which was scheduled for Saturday, April 18, 2020.
For details on...
Ashanti Shih received the 2020 Rachel Carson Prize from the American Society for Environmental History for her 2019 dissertation, “Invasive Ecologies: Science and Settler...
In just three decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the heart of Africa was utterly transformed. Virtually closed to outsiders for centuries, by the early 1900s...
Yale will host an interdisciplinary workshop on “Usable Climate Science and the Uses of History,” November 7-8, 2019, at the Whitney Humanities Center.
Since roughly 2012,...
Gabriel Lee specializes in American environmental history and especially twentieth-century environmental engineering. He received an MA from North Carolina State University...
Yale Environmental History
Graduate Student Paper Workshop Series
Spring 2019
Works-in-progress in environmental history by Yale doctoral students.
All workshops will be...
The Yale University Department of History invites applications for a Cassius Marcellus Clay Postdoctoral Fellowship in United States environmental history. The fellow will...
A Yale-led project examining the link between explosive volcanic eruptions and the annual Nile river summer flooding in antiquity has received an award from the National...
Yale history professor Alan Mikhail receives prestigious Anneliese Maier Research Award(250,000 euros) to collaborate with researchers in Germany and advance environmental...
This conference will bring together scholars of South, Southeast, and East Asia for a discussion framed by the concept of a “wood age.” We will consider both the centrality...
Among the many environmental hazards that challenged European efforts to colonize the early modern Caribbean were insect infestations of one kind or another. Though scholars...
Today, predicting the impact of human activities on the earth’s climate hinges on tracking interactions among phenomena of radically different dimensions, from the molecular...
This article by Yale doctoral student Yuan J. Chen examines the creation, preservation, and destruction of the defensive forest that the Northern Song built in Hebei along...
