About

Overview

Environmental Humanities initiatives the world over have embraced the laboratory/experiment model as a way to foster cross-disciplinary, collaborative research, but often without much critical reflection on the politics and structures of power that have historically attended this mode of knowledge production. This symposium features scholars thinking critically, creatively, and expansively about the laboratory/experiment nexus and its possibilities for new forms of environmental knowledge, in humanities, humanistic social science, and STEM fields.

March 5: Opening Lecture, 4:30 pm
March 6: Lectures & Panels, 8:45 am to 6:00 pm

Levis Faculty Center
Fourth Floor Lecture Hall (Room 422)
919 West Illinois Street
Urbana, IL

Presenters

  • Leah Aronowsky, University of Illinois
  • Sara Grossman, Bryn Mawr College
  • Evan Hepler-Smith, Duke University
  • Sarah Kanouse, Northeastern University
  • Ayala Levin, Northwestern University
  • Max Liboiron, Memorial University
  • Sara B. Pritchard, Cornell University
  • Pollyanna Rhee, University of Illinois
  • Nick Shapiro, UCLA
  • Maria Whiteman, Indiana University

Environmental Humanities Research Group

The Environmental Humanities Research Group is a two-year program supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the development of emerging areas in the humanities. The 2019-2020 Environmental Humanities Research Group:

  • Bob Morrissey (History)
    Faculty Fellow and research group director
  • Leah Aronowsky (PhD, History of Science, Harvard)
    Post-Doctoral Fellow
  • Pollyanna Rhee (PhD, Architecture, Colombia University)
    Post-Doctoral Fellow
  • Douglas Jones (History)
    Pre-Doctoral Fellow
  • Jessica Landau (Art History)
    Pre-Doctoral Fellow
  • Alaina Bottens (Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences/Gender & Women’s Studies)
    Undergraduate Intern
  • Sarah Gediman (History/Earth, Society & Environmental Sustainability)
    Undergraduate Intern
  • Amanda Watson (English/Political Science)
    Undergraduate Intern