Center for Environmental Humanities

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ABOUT THIS PROJECT

The Center for Environmental Humanities (CEH) is an interdisciplinary research space focused on using storytelling, historical research and other humanities approaches to help communities engage with their environment.

Scientists, policymakers and the public recognize that addressing global environmental problems requires not just technical expertise, but also shifts in public and political will inspired by cultural change. The Center for Environmental Humanities (CEH) focuses on the role of culture and communications in environmental change: providing historical and political context about environmental challenges, personalizing its impact through stories, art, music and media and offering hope and inspiration for imagining other futures.

Recent projects undertaken by graduate students involved with CEH include: 

  • a study that assembles first-person stories about how childbirth is affected by extreme weather events in Puerto Rico
  • a study of how Impressionist painting represented resource extraction in France
  • a study of vernacular solar architecture during the energy crisis of the 1970s and early 1980s


THE IMPACT OF YOUR SUPPORT 

Your gift will provide general support for CHE and advance CHE's programming goals in the 2027-2028 academic year. These include: 

  • providing grants to support student research in the environmental humanities
  • funding an undergraduate student intern to further engage the community in the Mapping Mobilities project, a collaborative public humanities project collecting and digitizing stories from commuters on the corridor from Philly to Newark
  • supporting our fourth-annual graduate student writing prize, celebrating excellence in graduate student research in the environmental humanities
  • building community among faculty and graduate students engaged in environmental research across the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences and thus strengthening the cohesiveness of the courses, research and professional opportunities available to undergraduate students at UD
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