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Sahar Bostock's picture Sahar Bostock

Postdoctoral Associate, Program in Agrarian Studies


Middle Eastern history, environmental history, development, colonialism, deserts, Palestine/Israel, science and technology studies

Paul Burow's picture Paul Burow

FES and Anthropology

land and wildlife conservation; multi-species entanglements; settler colonialism; Native North America; environmental humanities.

Carol Carpenter's picture Carol Carpenter

Senior Lecturer, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

Social ecology, sustainable development and conservation, gender in agrarian and ecological systems.

Estrella Castillo's picture Estrella Castillo

History of Science and Medicine

Indigenous science and technology studies; Indigenous religions under the law; hikuri Peyote cactus; anticolonial and decolonial movement; materiality of psychedelics

Yuan Chen's picture Yuan Chen

History

Environmental history; East Asian history; Middle Period; conquest dynasties; forestry and militarization; food and culture; urban ecology; frontier and borderland. 

Deborah Coen's picture Deborah Coen

Professor, Chair of the History of Science & Medicine Program

History of the modern physical and environmental sciences; Central European intellectual and cultural history

 
 
Camille Cole's picture Camille Cole

History

Camille Cole’s dissertation uses a group of Ottoman and Iranian notables – tribal leaders, landowners, and entrepreneurs – as nodes through which to investigate the making of multi-imperial space in what is now southern Iraq. The Ottoman, British, and Qajar states all pursued imperial expansion and consolidation in the region roughly bounded by the Tigris-Euphrates-Karun river basin south of Baghdad. In addition to jockeying for political influence with local notables, all three states carried out projects of modernity, including remaking regional trade with steamships and linking... Read More

Sigma Colon

American Studies

Sigma Colón studies the intersections of spatial analysis, environmental, and cultural politics from the late 19th through the 21st century. Her dissertation, “Rivers Seen and Unseen,” examines popular accounts of river regions as vehicles for representing and altering the exploitation of people and rivers. In addition to her work on river systems, as a member of the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture she has published work on invasive species as a kind of occupation tied to racialized geographies, as well... Read More

Jacquelyn Davila's picture Jacquelyn Davila

History

Borderlands and agrarian history; water management; property regimes; sovereignty