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Paul Burow
FES and Anthropology
Paul Burow is a student in the combined doctoral degree program between the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Department of Anthropology at Yale University. His work focuses on wildlife conservation, multi-species entanglements, and settler colonialism in North America’s Pacific and Intermountain West.
Land, Wildlife Conservation, Multi-species Entanglements, Settler Colonialism, Native North America, Environmental Humanities
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Yuan Chen
History
Environmental history; East Asian history; Middle Period; conquest dynasties; forestry and militarization; food and culture; urban ecology; frontier and borderland.
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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 |
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John D'Amico
History
John D’Amico is a second year PhD student. He works on the social and economic history of Tokugawa Japan, with a particular interest in the relationship between merchant capital and society. His recent research has focused on topics ranging from land redevelopment after famine in northeast Japan to changes in the urban social order of Kyoto in the 19th century.
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Liana DeMarco
History of Science, History of Medicine
Liana DeMarco works on the history of medicine and environmental history in the Americas. Her dissertation traces a transnational history of health culture in Cuba and the Lower Mississippi Valley during the first half of the nineteenth century, arguing that medical and scientific thinkers, health tourists, government officials, and slaveholders formed a cross-colonial knowledge network based on the shared goal of creating landscapes that could maximize both bodily health and agricultural productivity. The project examines changes in medicine, environment,... Read More |
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Chelsea Jack
Anthropology
Chelsea Jack is a PhD student in the Anthropology Department at Yale University and a National Science Foundation GRFP Fellow (2016-2021). Her doctoral dissertation research begins with this question: under what conditions have people in the United States returned to farming and experimenting with “industrial hemp,” a politically correct term for an agronomic species of cannabis? This multi-sited ethnographic project––influenced by science and technology studies, environmental and agricultural anthropology, and medical anthropology––examines how a political and social movement for... Read More |
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Marta Kalabinski
History
Marta Kalabinski is a PhD candidate specializing in modern Eastern European history, with a particular interest in the political and social history of Poland. She is interested in ports, post-World War II urban reconstruction, the establishment of the Polish postwar communist regime, and resistance to that regime. Her other fields of interest include modern Western Europe and environmental history. She has a BSFS in International History from Georgetown University.
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Caitlin Kossmann
History of Science and Medicine
Global histories of conservation and environment, aesthetics and science, history of the life sciences, meanings of nature/natural in the history of science
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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 |
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Joanna Linzer
History
Mountains; environmental history; Tokugawa Japan; early modern Japan
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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 |
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Chris Melvin
History
Chris Melvin is a second-year PhD student in Latin American and environmental history at Yale University currently working on the history of development and indigenous politics in twentieth-century Latin America.
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Thomas Monaghan
History
Sugar in Japan; society and the environment; commodities and trade; technology transfers; local history; agricultural experiments; island societies; Brazil and the Caribbean.
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Sarah Pickman
History
material culture, extreme environments, history of exploration, polar regions, history of anthropology, British and American imperialism, indigenous approaches to environment
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Taylor Rose
History
19th and 20th century US environmental history, North American West, race and identity, rural space and place, federal land management, transportation infrastructure
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Ashanti Shih
History of Science, History of Medicine
Ashanti Shih was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawai‘i. In 2011, she graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor’s degree in History and Art Practice. Her undergraduate thesis explored the history of Japan’s nuclear energy program, focusing on the controversial use of American nuclear fuel in the 1970s. At Yale, Ashanti studies the history of ecology and environmental history in the Pacific region. Her dissertation, tentatively titled, “Alien Ecologies: Conservation and Identity in Twentieth-century Hawai‘i,” focuses on the history... Read More |
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Marshall Watson
History
Marshall Watson is a doctoral student in the Department of History whose fields include Ottoman, modern Middle East, and global environmental history. His research interests lie in the emergence of the modern Middle East and the transformation of non-state spaces into governed geographies. Presently he is working on a project that traces the intellectual legacies of orientalist thought in colonial resource management schemes. These themes are buttressed by his academic and personal interest in anarchist philosophy.
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Teona Williams
History and African American Studies
U.S environmental history, political ecology, race and ethnic studies, environmental justice, digital humanities, and African American history
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