Projects
Andrew Mellon Foundation’s Integrative Graduate Humanities Education and Research Training
The CHCI-IGHERT brought together doctoral students from UC Santa Cruz, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Australian National University, and University of Giessen to undertake collaboratively mentored international research responding broadly to the theme of Indigeneity.
IGHERT was funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation from September 1, 2014 through December 31, 2016.
Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene is a new geologic epoch, defined by unprecedented human disturbance of the earth’s ecosystems.
Applying insights and methods from anthropology, biology and philosophy Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA) has aimed to open up a novel and truly trans-disciplinary field of research into the Anthropocene which is needed to understand the kinds of lives that are made and the futures that are possible in the ruined, re-wilded, and unintended landscapes of the Anthropocene.
AURA was funded by the Danish National Research Foundation from September 1, 2013 - December 31, 2018.
Penn Program in Environmental Humanities
Founded in 2014, the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities (PPEH) fosters interdisciplinary environmental collaboration and scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, and beyond.
PPEH's four core commitments include:
broadly interdisciplinary, collaborative research on the environment across the arts and sciences
arts-driven inquiry into place, particularly our campus and the City of Philadelphia as well as urban ecology in other global contexts
public engagement, particularly in and with environmental justice communities and concerns
the creation and growth of living archives via practices of urgent collection
Landscape Laboratory
The Landscape Laboratory, housed in the Department of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz, is a research collective that explores the diversity and complexity of landscapes, in the contemporary and across histories and futures. We are interested in landscapes as places of encounter and mutual transformations between people, plants, soils, animals, geologies, bacteria, and other biotic and abiotic, natural and supernatural beings. Questions of capital, power, justice, and the state enter our concerns even as we work through details of particular landscape forms and histories. We focus on such topics as plant disease, climate change, coral reef health, and mining, each as a knot of sometimes unexpected entanglements in more than human worlds.