Environmental Humanities at UK's Benchmark Institutions
Parent Site: Bob Sandmeyer's Environmental Humanities Research
- University of Alabama (AL) 3
- no dedicated institute or cluster
- University of Arizona (AZ) 1, 2
(Land-Grant College or University)
- The University of Arizona promotes the Environmental Humanities through a variety of institutes and initiatives within the Arizona Environment network. "Arizona Environment embraces a more sustainable future, with multiple disciplines working together - including fine arts, design, history, literature, philosophy and cultural studies." In short, Environmental Humanities appears to be an integral part of an active interdisciplinary cluster of research and teaching initiatives at the University of Arizona.
- University of California-Davis (CA) 1
(Land-Grant College or University)
- UC Davis inaugurated an Environmental Humanities supercluster through their Humanities' Institute in 2008. Initiated through the 20th Anniversary-UC Presidential Humanities Initiative Program, the 2007 internal proposal for the EH supercluster is available online. While the Humanities' Institute appears currently active, the Environmental Humanities supercluster appears to have become dormant by 2012.
- University of California - Los Angeles 2
(Land-Grant College or University)
- The Environmental Humanities at UCLA
"The 'environmental humanities' names a set of subfields from different academic disciplines, pulling areas of study such as environmental history and environmental philosophy under the same umbrella. But this term also marks an effort to see what happens when scholars from the humanities, social sciences, and sciences talk across disciplines about the environment and environmental problems... During the 2014-15 academic year, funding from the Mellon Foundation allowed us to host the Sawyer Seminar on the Environmental Humanities, a series of nine seminars that brought top scholars in environmental history, ecocriticism, environmental philosophy, anthropology, and geography to campus."
- University of Florida 1, 2, 3
(Land-Grant College or University)
- The University of Florida does not have a dedicated Environmental Humanities program per se. However, UFL participates as a partner-member in the Coasts, Climates, the Humanities, and the Environment Consortium (CCHEC) funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The CCHEC Mellon grant of $150,000 began in 2019 and has a duration of two year. As stated in the Consortium's website, "CHECC engages the sea and land grant missions of its member institutions via two initial clusters: 'Coasts, Archives and Climates' and 'Coastal Futures and the Public Humanities.'"
- University of Illinois 2
(Land-Grant College or University)
- The University of Illinois offers a cluster of undergraduate courses related to Environmental Humanities. The cluster seems to fulfill part of an undergraduate certificate in Bio-Humanities at Illinois, "developed as part of a Bio-Humanities initiative funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation." The EH cluster of courses were offered AY 2019-20, and it is unclear if this remains a vital option.
- University of Iowa 1, 2
(Land-Grant College or University)
- In AY 2016-17, The University of Iowa created a Spatial and Environmental Humanities Working Group within the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies. This working group includes "studies of place and emplacement; environmental history in the Americas and in international contexts; geography and cartography as spatial and cultural practices; and aesthetic formulations of the local and the global, both past and present." A number of faculty currently list Environmental Humanities as an area of expertise.
- Louisiana State University 3
(Land-Grant College or University)
- University of Maryland 2
- no dedicated institute or cluster
- University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 1, 2
- UMich hosts the Animal Studies and Environmental Humanities Interest Group. The group is peopled by Catherine Fairfield (Doctoral Student in English and Women's and Gender Studies). Lauren Geiger (Doctoral candidate in English Language & Literature and instructor in the English Department Writing Program), and Antoine Traisnel (Director of Graduate Studies; Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature; Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature). EH at UMich appears to have been active during the During our 2018-19 Year of Humanities and Environments.
- Michigan State University 1, 2
- While a number of faculty list EH and ecocriticism as an area of interest, there appears to be no organized cluster of initiative at MSU.
- University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 1, 2
- "The The Environmental Humanities Initiative engages a wide range of related fields, including Indigenous studies, political ecology, food studies, cultural geography, animal studies, and cultural anthropology, and investigates such keywords as sustainability, the Anthropocene, and the posthuman. Environmental humanities scholars also seek to bridge the divide between academic analysis and practice in the public sphere." Organized by Christine Marran (Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies), Charlotte Melin (Professor and Chair, Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch, Acting Director of the Program in Slavic Languages & Literatures), Dan Philippon (Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of English), and Clare Boerigter (EHI Graduate Assistant, Creative Writing MFA Candidate).
- University of Mississippi 3
- no dedicated institute or cluster
- Mississippi State University 3
- no dedicated institute or cluster
- University of Missouri-Columbia 1, 3
- no dedicated institute or cluster
- Missouri Humanities: Environmental Humanities Letter from the Exec. Director, Steve Belko (Aug 14, 2020)
"Missouri Humanities implemented an environmental humanities program
several years ago, and it has blossomed substantially since its inception. Our recent annual Humanities Symposium addressed the subject, focusing in this particular instance on water. In the simplest terms,
our environmental humanities program validates the integral intersection between environmental concerns and the humanities."
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1, 2
- Coasts, Climates, the Humanities, and the Environment Consortium
"In 2019 The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded a $150,000 two-year grant (extended to three years due to COVID-19) to pilot a consortium of four research institutions and their public partners to study coasts, climates and the environmental humanities. The Coasts, Climates, the Humanities, and the Environment Consortium (CCHEC) is a partnership of the University of Georgia, Louisiana State University, the University of Florida, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as an alliance of regional stakeholders."
- North Carolina State 2
- no dedicated institute or cluster
- Ohio State University-Main Campus 1, 2
- Environmental Humanities at Ohio State University
"Environmental Humanities at Ohio State brings together scholars and students from multiple fields to think collectively and imaginatively about the role of the humanities in addressing the most pressing ecological challenges: climate change, biodiversity loss, the Anthropocene, the disappearing boundaries between nature and culture, and the changing status of the human, among others. Our program is funded for two years (2016-2018) by the Humanities & Arts Discovery Themes."
- Pennsylvania State University 2
- Purdue University 2
- University of South Carolina 3
- University of Tennessee - Knoxville 3
- Texas A&M 2, 3
- Humanities: Land Sea Space
"a cross-disciplinary research initiative at the Glasscock Center which brings a range of events to the campus and the local community. Land Sea Space encompasses a diverse set of contexts and places in which pressing issues and challenges are situated and is designed to open up opportunities for the Glasscock Center to collaborate across Texas A&M’s disciplines and colleges. Land Sea Space aims to capture both global concerns and many that are especially relevant to the state of Texas."
- Vanderbilt University 3
- no dedicated institute or cluster
- University of Virginia 2
- Environmental Humanities at UVA
"EH&UVA advances methods and knowledges of the humanities in support of collaborative, multi-disciplinary approaches to environmental research. Connecting scholars in the sciences and social sciences as well as humanities and arts, environmental humanities holds that understanding environmental questions requires engaging matters of history, interpretation, value, and criticism."
- Graduate Certificate
- Initiatives
- Coastal Futures Conservatory
"The Coastal Futures Conservatory integrates arts and humanities into the investigation of coastal change. Working with scientists at the Virginia Coastal Reserve, an NSF-supported Long-Term Ecological Research site, the Conservatory aims to deepen understanding and stimulate imagination by opening ways to listen to the dynamics reshaping coasts."
- Mapping Indigenous Worlds
"Mapping Indigenous Worlds is a Mellon Global South Humanities Lab at the University of Virginia. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Mellon Global South Initiative empowers faculty, students, scholars, and community members to develop innovative research and curriculum about the Global South. Mapping Indigenous Worlds develops several key themes of the UVa Global South Initiative, most notably race and ethnicity, cartographies and spaces, language worlds, media ecologies and cultures, art and performance, cultures of human rights, and digital inequities."
- The Sanctuary Lab
"Exploring how climate change bears on sacred sites. We conduct multi-disciplinary inquiry at protected, contested places across the world, investigating how Anthropocene stresses are reshaping cultural landscapes. Sanctuaries reveal vital connections between natural environment and human tradition—we look to them as laboratories for how communities may negotiate the disorientations of rapid planetary change."
- Water Futures Initiative
"Water Futures is a pan-university initiative working on solutions to major socio-environmental challenges in water security. It is designed to achieve synthesis across disciplines and sectors in a problem-oriented framework. Water Futures will link faculty, students, and programs at UVA with leading scholars and professionals working in other academic and non-academic institutions, drawing from different backgrounds and perspectives."
- WriteClimate (no apparent activity)
"WriteClimate is an association of UVA students fighting for climate change awareness through literary, artistic, and activist means. WriteClimate convenes as a class every Spring semester at UVA (EVSC 1559). The WriteClimate Club operates year-round and expands upon the work done in the class."
- University of Washington 2
- no dedicated institute or cluster
- University of Wisconsin-Madison 1, 2
- Center for Culture, History, and Environment (Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies)
"The Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) is at the forefront of some of the most exciting environmental humanities and social science scholarship focusing on the entangled histories of nature and culture. CHE Associates seek to understand how knowledge, beliefs, political economy, and culture have shaped, and been shaped by, the environment."
- CHE Graduate/Professional Certificate
- Edge Effects
"Edge Effects is a digital magazine and podcast produced by CHE Graduate Associates at UW-Madison. Edge Effects offers a wide array of content relating to environmental and cultural change across the full sweep of human history. It seeks to invite and cultivate a broad readership and authorship that spans a range of political and cultural perspectives."
- Benchmark Institutions by Source
- 1. UK's Benchmark Institutions (University Assessment)
- 2. Benchmark Institutions Studied for ENS Proposal to Faculty Senate
- 3. SEC Academic Conference
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