2021 SPRING | Faculty Fellows

The Humanities in the Environment / The Environment in the Humanities

 

Alex Beasley (American Studies) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies within the College of Liberal Arts. His Faculty Fellows project will be entitled “Expert Capital: Houston and the Making of a Service Empire.”

Jason Cons (Anthropology) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology within the College of Liberal Arts.  His Faculty Fellows project will be entitled "Delta Temporalities: Time, Territory, and Capture on a Climate Frontier."

Andrea Gore (College of Pharmacy) is a Professor and the Vacek Chair in the College of Pharmacy. Her Faculty Fellows project will be entitled “Environmental Health, Endocrine Disruptors, and the Developing Brain.”

Jennifer Graber (Religous Studies) is a Professor in the Department of Religous Studies within the College of Liberal Arts. Her Faculty Fellows project will be entitled “Animals and Landscapes in the Pan-tribal ‘Ghost Dance’ Movement.”

Hi'ilei Hobart (Anthropology) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology within the College of Liberal Arts. Her Faculty Fellows Project will be entitled “Kinship With, Across, and Through Our Sea of Islands.”

Ben Hodges (Civil, Architectural, & Environmental Engineering) is a Professor of Civil, Architectural, & Environmental Engineering wihtin the Cockrell School of Engineering. His Faculty Fellows project will be entitled “Improving community understanding, planning, and resiliency to flooding.”

Heather Houser (English) is an Associate Professor of English within the College of Liberal Arts. Her Faculty Fellows project will be entitled “Affiliating Reproductive and Climate Justice.”

Beili Liu (Art & Art History) is a Professor of Art and Art History within the College of Fine Arts. Her Faculty Fellows project will be entitled “Material force, cultural narratives, and the human impact on the natural world.”

Allen MacDuffie (English) is an Associate Professor of English within the College of Liberal Arts. His Faculty Fellows Project will be entitled “Charles Darwin and the Victorian Pre-History of Climate Change Denial.”

Steven Phelps(Integrative Biology) is a Professor of Intigrative Biology within the College of Natural Sciences. His Faculty Fellows project will be entitled “The biology of intimacy: The relationship between intimacy and the love of the natural world.”

Adam Rabinowitz (Classics) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Classics within the College of Liberal Arts. His Faculty Fellows project will be entitled "Environmental approaches to the history and archaeology of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine borderlands in the Black Sea region."

Miriam Solis (Community and Regional Planning) is an Assistant Professor of Community and Regional Planning within the School of Architecture. Her Faculty Fellows project will be entitled “Building a Green Future: Youth Perceptions of Decarbonization and Racial Justice.”

Jayme Walenta (Geography and the Environment) is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography & the Environment within the College of Liberal Arts. Her Faculty Fellows project will be entitled “Nature as Person: Re-scripting legal treatments of nature in western liberalism.”