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September 27, 2019
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
May 14, 2019
Gabriel Lee specializes in American environmental history and especially twentieth-century environmental engineering. He received an MA from North Carolina State University...
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February 6, 2019
Yale Environmental History  Graduate Student Paper Workshop Series  Spring 2019  Works-in-progress in environmental history by Yale doctoral students.  All workshops will be...
February 4, 2019
The Yale University Department of History invites applications for a Cassius Marcellus Clay Postdoctoral Fellowship in United States environmental history.  The fellow will...
Joseph Manning
September 28, 2018
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...
September 12, 2018
Yale history professor Alan Mikhail receives prestigious Anneliese Maier Research Award(250,000 euros) to collaborate with researchers in Germany and advance environmental...
September 12, 2018
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...
July 16, 2018
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...
July 16, 2018
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...
July 15, 2018
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...
February 7, 2018
In April 2018, the Yale Nile Initiative Lecture Series will host a four-part lecture series, “Paleoclimate, Environment, History.” The speaker line-up includes: April 9:...
January 21, 2018
Yale Environmental Humanities is delighted to announce: “Landscape and Memory”  Yale Environmental Humanities Spring Lecture Series January 24: Laura Barraclough, Elihu Rubin...
October 17, 2017
Joseph G. Manning, Francis Ludlow, Alexander R. Stine, William R. Boos, Michael Sigl, & Jennifer R. Marlon, “Volcanic suppression of Nile summer flooding triggers revolt...
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September 12, 2017
Yale Environmental History will host its next “New Perspectives in Environmental History” Conference on Saturday, April 14, 2018. The Call for Papers is now available at the...
June 20, 2017
The new university-wide Yale Environmental Humanities Initiative seeks to deepen our understanding of the ways that culture is intertwined with nature.  The initiative links...