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Benedict Kiernan's picture Benedict Kiernan

A Whitney Griswold Prof of History

Southeast Asian history, environmental History of Viet Nam, history of genocide, climate, agriculture

Caitlin Kossmann's picture Caitlin Kossmann

History of Science and Medicine

global histories of conservation and environment; aesthetics and science; history of the life sciences; meanings of nature / the natural in the history of science.

Nataliia Laas's picture Nataliia Laas

Postdoctoral Associate, Jackson School of Global Affairs

Environmental history, Waste, Toxicity, Environmental Thinking, Environmental Rights, Environmental Justice
Keri Lambert's picture Keri Lambert

History

Keri Lambert is a PhD student specializing in twentieth-century African and environmental history. Her dissertation, “Planting Trees, Tapping Ghanaians: Cultivating Rubber and Nationhood in 20th Century Ghana,” will explore the ways in which farmers, the state, and transnational companies consolidated land, labor, and capital to develop rubber plantations in colonial and post-colonial Ghana. The rubber industry presents a particularly useful case to observe how Ghanaians in rural areas of the peripheral Western Region have engaged with hegemonic institutions and resources – both natural... Read More

Dante LaRiccia's picture Dante LaRiccia

History

Environmental governance; international and environmental systems; history of science; political ecology.

Charlotte Leib's picture Charlotte Leib

History

US history; early American environmental history; landscape history; histories of architecture, landscape architecture, planning & urbanism; urban studies; geography; environmental justice.

Adrian Lerner Patron's picture Adrian Lerner Patron

History

Environmental history; Latin American history; the history of public health; social and political history

Joanna Linzer's picture Joanna Linzer

History

mountains; environmental history; Tokugawa Japan; early modern Japan.

Timothy Lorek's picture Timothy Lorek

History

Tim Lorek is a PhD candidate in the Department of History. His dissertation, “Developing Paradise: Agricultural Science in Colombia’s Cauca Valley, 1927-1967” examines a long history of agronomy and environmental changes in a Latin American tropical river valley. He is also co-organizer of the international conference “Traveling Technocrats: Experts and Expertise in Cold War Latin America,” held at Yale in October of 2016, and coordinator of Yale’s Agrarian Studies program for the 2016-17 academic year. His dissertation committee includes Gilbert Joseph (Chair), Paul Sabin, Stuart Schwartz... Read More