Grants for Doctoral Research in Sustainability & the Humanities Recipients

2019-2020

Alley Edlebi (English)
Still Earth

Austin Lillywhite (English)
Eco-Haunting: Race, Perception, Landscape and New Literary Realisms

Elizabeth Strayer (English)
Literary Forms as Land Claims: Rewriting Environmental Justice in the British Empire

2018-2019

Martin Abbott (City & Regional Planning)
Flooding India’s Water Scarcity Capital: Historicizing the Hydro-Geography of Chennai

Wanheng Hu (Science & Technology Studies)
Turning Farmlands into “Factories”: The Knowledge Dynamics of “Modern Agricultural Industrial Parks”

Katherine Thorsteinson (English)
Narratives of Disposability: Toxic Tours and Archives of Disaster in the Gulf South

Emily Celeste Vázquez Enríquez (Romance Studies)
No Drinking Water and No Electricity: The Case of the Colonias in Texas

 

2017-2018

Martina Broner (Romance Studies)
Seeds of Change? Virtual Visits to the Amazon in the Anthropo-not-seen

Rukmini Chakraborty (History)
Fixing the Fluid: Career of Colonial Hydrology in Bay of Bengal under the Company-Raj circa. 1770-1857

Timothy McLellan (Anthropology)
The Temporalities of Outcomes Thinking: Impact and Audit at an Agri-Environmental Research Institute

Matias Oviedo (Romance Studies)
The Red Library: Towards an Ecology of Forbidden Books

 

2016-2017

Alex Lenoble (Romance Studies)
Caribbean Literary Ecologies

Rachel Odhner (Anthropology)
Connectivity and conversation in Greytown, Nicaragua

Gustavo Alberto Quintero (Romance Studies)
The Question of Hydrocarbon Extraction in Columbia

Molly Reed (History)
Ecology of Utopia: Environmental Discourse and Practice in Antebellum Communal Settlements

 

2015-2016

Kristen Angierski (English)
Ecosickness, Animals, and Neocolonial Cosmetic-Aesthetics: “Natural Beauty” in Postcolonial Literatures

Vincent Burgess (Asian Studies)
Negotiating Modernities: Renunciation and Environmentalism amongst the Bishnoi of North India, 1950 to the Present

Amelia Jensen (Landscape Architecture, Masters Candidate)
Undamming Potentials: Choreographing the Sediment Flux of the Pacific Northwest

Matthew Minarchek (History)
Producing a Global Rainforest: Colonialism, Conservation, and the Opening of Sumatra’s Highlands, 1900-1940

 

2014-2015

Mark Deets (History)  
Mapping a Nation: Space, Place, and Culture in the Casamance, 1885-2007

Ryan Edwards (History) 
An Ecology of Exile: Earth and Elsewhere in Argentina’s Ushuaia penal Colony (1860-1960)

Kyle Harvey (History)  
Sailing the Pampas, Scaling the Andes: mobile, Built Environments and Argentine State Formation 1850s-1910s

Aaron Rosenberg (English)  
Romancing the Anthropocene: H.G. Wells and the ‘Limits of Individual Plasticity’

Ruoji Tang (English)  
Critique and Reconsideration of the Politics of Sustainability through British Romantic Writing

Rebecca Townsend (History)  
Institutional Dynamics and Popular Conceptions of National Development Programs in Thailand from the 1950s to the 1970s

 

2013-2014

Charis Boke (Anthropology)
Resilience/Resistance: Anticipating the Future, Environmental Activists, and the Politics of Preparation in the United States

Karlie Fox-Knudtsen (Anthropology)
How Discourses about sustainability operate within the current political context of rural Odisha

Sophie Hochhäusl (History of Architecture and Urban Development)
Architecture, Technology, and the Environment in Austrian Settlements and Allotment Gardens between Reform and the Welfare State, 1903-1953

Monica Salas Landa (Anthropology)
Crude Residues: Material and Affective Legacies of the Oil Industry in Poza Rica, Veracruz, Mexico

Alexander Phillips (German Studies)
Environmental and Aesthetic Sustainability in the Late Work of Wilhelm Raabe

Elizabeth Plantan (Government)
Framing Effects and Mobilization along the Marcellus Shale

 

2012-2013

Alexander Gordon (Anthropology)

Catherine Kearns (Classics)

Amy Lee Kohout (History)

David Rojas (Anthropology)

Avery Slater (English)

 

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