UK-EHI (Sandmeyer)

Environmental Humanities Inititive at UK

Draft Proposal (Sep 2021)

Environmental Humanities at the University of Kentucky
Environmental Humanities in Higher Ed
- UK's benchmark institutions
- Other academic programs (U.S.)

Environmental Humanities Research

Journals, Books, and Book Series
- Journals
- Books & Book Series
Societies, Centers, Institutes, &c
Associations
Granting Sources
Sandmeyer
- BENM

Environmental Humanities at UK's Benchmark Institutions

University of Kentucky Benchmark Institutions (*click link* for details about EH programming at these institutions)
List as defined by UK's Office of Univ. Assessment	List as defined in the ENS proposal to UK Senate*	SEC Academic Conference (for sake of comparison)
University of Arizona	University of Arizona	University of Alabama
University of California-Davis	University of California - Los Angeles	University of Arkansas
University of Florida	University of Georgia	Auburn University
University of Iowa	University of Illinois	University of Florida
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	University of Iowa	University of Georgia
Michigan State University	University of Maryland	Louisiana State University
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	University of Mississippi
University of Missouri-Columbia	Michigan State University	Mississippi State University
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities	University of Missouri-Columbia
Ohio State University-Main Campus	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	University of South Carolina
University of Wisconsin-Madison	North Carolina State	University of Tennessee - Knoxville
	Ohio State University-Main Campus	Texas A&M
	Pennsylvania State University	Vanderbilt University
	Purdue University
	Texas A&M
	University of Virginia
	University of Washington
	University of Wisconsin-Madison
* Italicized entries in ENS list are schools listed in the UK Office of Assessment list of benchmark institutions.

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Environmental Humanities — other academic programs

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Journals, Books, etc.

Journals

Environmental Humanities (UK login)
(https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities)

"Environmental Humanities is funded and managed by a collaborative partnership between Arizona State University, USA; Concordia University, Canada; Environmental Humanities Laboratory, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney, Australia; University of California, Los Angeles, USA; and University of Connecticut, USA." ISSN: 2201-1919.

Social Media

Articles of general interest
- "Environmental Humanities: Entering a New Time", by Dolly Jørgensen; Franklin Ginn. (2020) 12 (2): 496–500.
- "Teaching the Environmental Humanities: International Perspectives and Practices", by Emily O'Gorman, Thom van Dooren, et. al. (2019) 11 (2): 427–460.
- "Mapping Common Ground: Ecocriticism, Environmental History, and the Environmental Humanities," by Hannes Bergthaller, Rob Emmett, et. al. (2014) 5 (1): 261–276.
- "Understanding of and Vision for the Environmental Humanities," by Rich Hutchings. (2014) 4 (1): 213–220.
- "Thinking Through the Environment, Unsettling the Humanities," by Deborah Bird Rose, Thom van Dooren, et. al. (2012) 1 (1): 1–5.

Resilience: a Journal of the Environmental Humanities (UK login)
(http://www.resiliencejournal.org/)

"Resilience is a digital, peer-reviewed journal of the Environmental Humanities. It provides a forum for scholars from across humanities disciplines to speak to one another about their shared interest in environmental issues, and to plot out an evolving conversation about what the humanities contributes to living and thinking sustainably in a world of dwindling resources."

Social Media
- facebook.com/resiliencejournal/

Articles of general interest
- Vol. 5, No. 2, Spring 2018: The Green Humanities Lab
- "Canadian Editor's Introduction: Political Ecologies, Public Humanities–a Report from Canada," by Cheryl Lousley. Vol. 2, No. 2 (Sep. 25, 2015)
- "European Editor's Introduction," by Michaela Castellanos. Vol. 2, No. 2 (Sep. 25, 2015)
- "We Don't Need No Education: A Case Study for Situating the Environmental Humanities," by Johan Gárdebo, Daniel Helsing, Anna Svensson and Adam Brenthel. Vol. 1, No. 3 (Fall 2014)
- "The Environmental Humanities and Public Writing: An Interview with Rob Nixon", with Stephanie LeMenager. Vol. 1, No. 2 (Jun. 15, 2014)
- "Editors' Column," by Stephanie LeMenager and Stephanie Foote. Vol. 1,No. 1, Winter 2013

Other Related Journals

Environmental History (UK login): "This interdisciplinary journal addresses issues relating to human interactions with the natural world over time, and includes insights from history, geography, anthropology, the natural sciences, and many other disciplines."

GeoHumanities (UK login): "Publishes conceptual and methodological debates, original research and creative engagements with space, place and the environment from a humanities perspective."

Orion Magazine: "Orion magazine invites readers into a community of caring for the planet. Through writing and art that explore the connection between nature and culture, Orion inspires new thinking about how humanity might live on Earth justly, sustainably, and joyously."

The Trumpeter. Journal of Ecosophy: "The Trumpeter is an environmental humanities journal dedicated to the development of an ecosophy, or wisdom born of ecological understanding and insight. As such, it serves the deep ecology movement's commitment to critically explore and analyze environmental concerns in light of ecological developments at every relevant level: metaphysics, science, history, politics. Gaining a deeper understanding involves a comprehensive set of criteria that includes analytical rigour, spiritual insight, ethical integrity, and aesthetic appreciation."

Books

The Environmental Humanities A Critical Introduction (MIT Press, © 2017): By Robert S. Emmett and David E. Nye
A concise overview of this multidisciplinary field, presenting key concepts, central issues, and current research, along with concrete examples and case studies.

Environmental Humanities. Voices from the Anthropocene (Rowman and Littlefield, © 2016): Edited by Serenella Iovino and Serpil Oppermann; This important volume brings together scientific, cultural, literary, historical, and philosophical perspectives to offer new understandings of the critical issues of our ecological present and new models for the creation of alternative ecological futures.

Framing the Environmental Humanities (Brill, © 2018): Volume Editors: Hannes Bergthaller and Peter Mortensen; The contributors to this wide-ranging volume use the concept of framing to engage with key questions in environmental literature, history, politics, film, TV, and pedagogy. In so doing, they show that framing can serve as a valuable analytical tool connecting different academic discourses within the emergent interdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities.

Humanities for the Environment. Integrating Knowledge, Forging New Constellations of Practice. (Routledge, © 2017): Edited By Joni Adamson and Michael Davis; Humanities for the Environment, or HfE, is an ambitious project that from 2013-2015 was funded by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The project networked universities and researchers internationally through a system of 'observatories'. This book collects the work of contributors networked through the North American, Asia-Pacific, and Australia-Pacific observatories."; see Humanities for the Environment in Societies, Institites, Centers, &c

The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities. (Routledge, © 2017): Edited By Ursula K. Heise, Jon Christensen, Michelle Niemann.; The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities provides a comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to the field, offering a broad overview of its founding principles while providing insight into exciting new directions for future scholarship.

Series

Cambridge Core: Elements in Environmental Humanities: "The environmental humanities is a new transdisciplinary complex of approaches to the embeddedness of human life and culture in all the dynamics that characterize the life of the planet. These approaches reexamine our species' history in light of the intensifying awareness of drastic climate change and ongoing mass extinction. To engage this reality, Cambridge Elements in Environmental Humanities builds on the idea of a more hybrid and participatory mode of research and debate, connecting critical and creative fields."; Environmental Elements blog

Routledge Environmental Humanities Book Series

"The Routledge Environmental Humanities Series seeks to engage with contemporary environmental challenges through the various lenses of the humanities and to explore foundational issues in environmental justice, multicultural environmentalism, ecofeminism, environmental psychology, environmental materialities and textualities, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, environmental communication and information management, multispecies relationships, and related topics. The series is premised on the notion that the arts, humanities, and social sciences, integrated with the natural sciences, are essential to comprehensive environmental studies."

Series Editors

Scott Slovic
University of Idaho, USA
Joni Adamson
Arizona State University, USA.
Yuki Masami
Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan

Studies in Environmental Humanities (Brill): Editors: Mark Luccarelli and Steven Hartman; Studies in Environmental Humanities is a series which brings to the forefront the value of the arts and humanities in the formulation of environmental policy. In a spirit of interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary engagement, the series sheds light on the perspectives of literary scholars, historians, human geographers, architects, spatial planners, cultural studies theorists and art historians regarding the environmental turn in contemporary human consciousness.

Verso Books: "environmental humanities": Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world, publishing one hundred books a year.

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Societies, Centers, Institutes, &c

American Society for Environmental History: "The American Society for Environmental History (ASEH) advances understanding of human interactions with the natural world by promoting historical research and teaching, and fostering dialogue about human use of the earth among humanists, social and environmental scientists, and the public. Its efforts benefit humankind by illuminating the past and providing perspective on current environmental issues.."

The Anthropocene Project (HkW): "Humanity forms nature. This is the core premise of the Anthropocene thesis, announcing a paradigm shift in the natural sciences as well as providing new models for culture, politics, and everyday life. (2013-14)."

Association for the Study of Literature and Environment: "The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) seeks to inspire and promote intellectual work in the environmental humanities and arts. Our vision is an inclusive community whose members are committed to environmental research, education, literature, art and service, environmental justice, and ecological sustainability."; Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities

Australian Environmental Humanities Hub: "The Australian Environmental Humanities Hub is a central site for the gathering, dissemination and coordination of news and events in this emerging field. Universities with research/teaching in the Environmental Humanities are represented in the hub by a single contact who helps to ensure the flow of information and coordinate local activities where necessary."; see also: Professor Libby Robin, Emeritus Professor Fenner School of Environment and Society ANU, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities

Benelux Association for the Study of Art, Culture, and the Environment: "The environmental humanities are a booming field. With good reason: if climate crisis and large scale environmental destruction have taught us one thing, it is that these issues cannot be tackled without a sound insight into the role played by culture. Far from presenting us with merely technological or economical challenges, the environmental crisis reveals deep-seated problems in the ways we imagine the relation between human beings and the material world. First and foremost, therefore, the environmental humanities partake in a fundamental cultural critique."

Cardiff Environmental Cultures: "As a strand of the Cardiff ScienceHumanities initiative at Cardiff University, Cardiff Environmental Cultures brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to interrogate the cultural, historical and theoretical forces that shape our relationships with the environment. The group aims to: (i) support research and teaching about environmental issues; (ii) foster debate between researchers, activists and the public about the current environmental emergency; (iii) help imagine and implement better possible futures."

Center for Humans & Nature: "The Center for Humans and Nature partners with some of the brightest minds to explore human responsibilities to each other and the more-than-human world. We bring together philosophers, ecologists, artists, political scientists, anthropologists, poets and economists, among others, to think creatively about a resilient future for the whole community of life."

Consortium of Environmental Philosophers: "We are humanities professionals who study the philosophical and ethical questions that arise from our relationship to the world around us. We aim to encourage greater transparency in the value frameworks of organizations and industries whose work involves human interactions with other species, environments or natural processes. We can assist in applying critical thinking from the environmental humanities to science, innovation, and policy. We ask organizations and policy makers to consider how the values that shape their work have emerged and whether they are adequate. We also offer a supportive role in deliberating these values and their rationale. We aim to broaden and deepen the debate on the human relationship to nature and to constructively evaluate pre-existing paradigms."

Digital Environmental Humanities: "Bringing together scholars in the environmental and the digital humanities from across Canada, the SSHRC-funded workshop will explore how new digital technologies and tools might be better used to showcase environmental humanities research in Canada. Although following separate paths until recently, the digital and the environmental humanities share similar interests and goals in terms of asserting the importance of the humanities in today’s contemporary society, the nature of interdisciplinary approaches to complex problems, and the need to provide students with practical tools with which to live in this complex world."

Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network: "The Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network presents researchers within the humanities with a forum in which to engage with each other’s work, to share insights, and develop collaborative partnerships."

Environmental Humanities for a Concerned Europe (Marie Curie ITN): "Environmental Humanities for a Concerned Europe (ENHANCE) is a Marie Curie European Innovative Training Network (ITN) providing multidisciplinary doctoral training in Environmental Humanities. The four main partners are the University of Leeds (UK), the Environmental Humanities Lab at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany, and the Deutsches Museum, Munich."

European Society for the Study of Literature, Culture, and the Environment (EASLCE): "By promoting research and education in the fields of literary, cultural and environmental studies, EASLCE aims to cultivate a better understanding of the interrelationship between natures and cultures for a more sustainable future."

The European Environmental Humanities Alliance (EASLCE): "In view of the great challenges we face in the near and distant future a European Environmental Humanities Alliance has been in the process of formation since 2011. The Alliance joins strong research environments, networks and study associations in Europe with prominent environmental humanities research orientations."

GeoHumanities Forum: "The GeoHumanities Forum is run by the Royal Holloway Centre for the GeoHumanities. The centre is a major initiative linking arts and humanities scholars and practitioners, geographers and the creative, cultural and heritage sectors. It will showcase and foster work with an arts and humanities orientation on issues that have a strong geographical resonance: such as space, place, landscape and environment."

The Greenhouse: "An environmental humanities research group at the University of Stavanger."

Humanities for the Environment: "The aim of Humanities for the Environment Observatories (HfE) is to identify, explore, and demonstrate the contributions that humanistic and artistic disciplines make to solving global social and environmental challenges."; (see Humanities for the Environment. Integrating Knowledge, Forging New Constellations of Practice, © 2017, in Books)

International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture: "The ISSRNC is a community of scholars interested in religion, nature, and culture. We are dedicated to helping scholars think across disciplines and foster critical inquiry and engaged scholarship."

Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (UCLA): "The Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS) is an incubator for new research and collaboration on storytelling, communications, and media in the service of environmental conservation and equity. We are a diverse network of faculty and students from across disciplines who explore how today's environmental challenges connect to longer histories of imagining the natural world. At LENS, we begin with the idea that these challenges are as much cultural and political as they are scientific and technological."

Philosophers for Sustainability: "Philosophers for Sustainability is an international group of philosophers that aims to encourage our profession to take leadership on climate change and environmental sustainability."; see also Ken Hiltner's web page, A Nearly Carbon-Neutral Conference Model; see also the American Philosophical Association's Good Practices Guide, Section 9: Sustainability

The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Soceity: "The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC) is an international, interdisciplinary center for research and education in the environmental humanities and social sciences. A nonprofit institution, the RCC was founded in 2009 as a joint initiative of Munich's Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and the Deutsches Museum, with the generous support of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

The Seed Box: "The Seed Box: An Environmental Humanities Collaboratory is a transdisciplinary program in Environmental Humanities, aimed at addressing and understanding the environmental challenges of tomorrow, today, and yesterday. We perform environmental humanities research and creative activity related to pressing environmental problems, across the nature-culture divide." Headquartered at Linköping University (LiU) in Sweden.

Society for Human Ecology: "The Society for Human Ecology (SHE) is an international interdisciplinary professional society that promotes the use of an ecological perspective in research, education, and application."

Trinity College Dublin Environmental Humanities Research Hub: "The Environmental Humanities at Trinity College Dublin aims to raise environmental awareness, perception and action through multi-disciplinary research and education. We collaborate through a cross-disciplinary lens and draw upon the insights of history, literature, philosophy, drama, film, media and culture studies, anthropology, sociology, psychology, geography, and other related disciplines. TCEH welcomes collaborations, short and long term visiting fellows, as well as graduate students."

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Associations

Kentucky Humanities Council: "Kentucky Humanities is an independent, nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, D.C. Kentucky Humanities is supported by the National Endowment and by private contributions. We are not a state agency, but are proud partners with Kentucky's cultural, heritage, arts, and tourism agencies."

National Endowment for the Humanities: "The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency created in 1965. It is one of the largest funders of humanities programs in the United States."

Kentucky Association for Environmental Education (KAEE): "The Kentucky Association for Environmental Education (KAEE) is one of the country’s oldest associations supporting environmental education and the first affiliate of the North American Association for Environmental Education."

North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE): "For more than four decades, NAAEE has promoted excellence in environmental education throughout North America and the world. We are dedicated to strengthening the field of environmental education and increasing the visibility and efficacy of the profession."

Southeastern Environmental Education Alliance (SEEA): "The mission of SEEA is to provide southeastern state environmental education associations and their members with valuable networking and communication opportunities that lead to greater success for all."