Alumni

Paul Burow's picture Paul Burow

FES and Anthropology

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

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. 

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

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.

Kristine Ericson's picture Kristine Ericson

History of Science and Medicine

Environmental history, STS, history of technology, history of design

Chelsea Jack's picture Chelsea Jack

Anthropology

ethnography; history; U.S. farming; “industrial hemp”; experimental agriculture; bioethics.
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.

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