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Ila Tyagi
American Studies and Film Studies
My dissertation, tentatively titled “Seeing the Invisible: The American Oil Industry in Moving Images,” addresses visual solutions to the problem of representing phenomena that elude the eye. Over four chapters, I examine drones equipped with cameras monitoring the enormous spatial sprawl of oilfields in Alaska; guerrilla documentaries looking past BP’s attempts to conceal the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico; animated sequences in Cold War-era sponsored films that depict underground drilling; and early actualities capturing the new appeals to smell, taste, and touch... Read More |
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Harvey Weiss
Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Anthropology and Forestry & Environmental Studies
Mesopotamia, early agriculture, cities and empires; Holocene paleoclimatology and environmental change.
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Teona Williams
History and African American Studies
US environmental history; political ecology; race and ethnic studies; environmental justice; digital humanities; African American history.
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Nurfadzilah Yahaya
Assistant Professor of History
History of Southeast Asia; History of Indian Ocean; History of Islamic World; Environmental History; History of Infrastructure; Legal History
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Tony Yeboah
Graduate Student, History
Africa: West Africa, architecture, the built environment, urban planning, palaceology
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Marcus Yee
Graduate Student, History, and Whitney Fellow in the Environmental Humanities
Southeast Asia; environmental history; Science and Technology Studies, Cold War, urban history
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Parker Zane
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Mesopotamian intellectual history; environmental history; human-environment relations; history of meterology; environmental archaeology.
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