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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

John D'Amico's picture John D'Amico

History

social and economic history; Tokugawa Japan; land redevelopment after famine in northeast Japan; changes in the urban social order of nineteenth century Kyoto.

Liana DeMarco's picture Liana DeMarco

History of Science, History of Medicine

history of medicine; environmental history in the Americas; transnational history of health culture in Cuba and the Lower Mississippi Valley.

Amity Doolittle's picture Amity Doolittle

Senior Lecturer and Research Scientist, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

Property rights and control over natural resources, political ecology, environmental history of Southeast Asia, Latin America, and New Haven