Graduate Students

	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
	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 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
	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.
	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
	Breeanna Elliott Graduate School Student
	Peter Haskin Graduate School Student
	Chelsea Jack Anthropology Chelsea Jack is a PhD student in the Anthropology Department at Yale University. Her ethnographic and historically-oriented dissertation project begins with the following question: under what conditions are people in unexpected places in the U.S. farming and experimenting with “industrial hemp,” a recently legalized variety of cannabis, for therapeutic and regenerative purposes? She is looking at how diverse experimental communities of scientists, farmers, processors, and consumers in America today are participating in a hemp revival. Her work has been generously... Read More
	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.
	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
	Charlotte Leib Graduate Student Research interests: US history; environmental history; landscape history; histories of the built environment; geography; urban studies; environmental justice. Bio: Charlotte is a doctoral student in the Department of History and member of the Environmental Humanities and Environmental History cohorts. Her work focuses on histories of the built environment, landscape architecture, and the perceptions,... Read More
	Joanna Linzer History Mountains; environmental history; Tokugawa Japan; early modern Japan
	Oliver Lucier History of Science and Medicine Research interests: History of geography, history of the Earth sciences, environmental history Bio: Oliver Lucier is a PhD student in the History of Science and Medicine Program at Yale University. His current research aims to explore the development of geography and environmental science within the broader contexts of colonialism, the growth of capitalism, slavery and its legacies, and the agency of colonial scientists. In 2018 he graduated from Rice University with a BA in History with honors, a BS in... Read More
	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.
	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.
	Sarah Pickman History material culture, extreme environments, history of exploration, polar regions, history of anthropology, British and American imperialism, indigenous approaches to environment
	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
	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.
	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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Graduate Students