Scholarly Resource List
Environmental Humanities Scholarly Resource List
Ahead of Earth Day, ACLS is sharing scholarly resources by and recommend by our fellows and grantees that explore the environmental humanities: the intersection of the environment, climate change, and sustainability with the humanities and interpretive social sciences.
Drawing on humanities and social science disciplines that have brought qualitative analysis to bear on environmental issues, the environmental humanities engages with fundamental questions of meaning, value, responsibility and purpose in a time of rapid, and escalating, change. “Thinking Through the Environment, Unsettling the Humanities”An introduction to the first issue of the Environmental Humanities journal by Deborah Bird Rose; Thom van Dooren; Matthew Chrulew; Stuart Cooke; Matthew Kearnes; Emily O’Gorman
These resources are an addition to a growing series, including resource pages on Asian Pacific American heritage, Black history, Disability Studies, LGBTQ+ liberation, and Indigenous studies, that are all a part of our ongoing commitment to and efforts in inclusive excellence and amplifying scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences.
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Scholarly Resources by ACLS Fellows & Grantees
ARTICLES
- “Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use” – Science, Volume 365, Issue 6456, August 30, 2019
Co-written by Lucas Stephens F’18, Policy Associate for Internet of Water, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions - “Beyond Solar Panels and Priuses: The Overlooked Environmentalism of Latinx Catholics” – the revealer, October 7, 2021
Written by Amanda J. Baugh F’11, Associate Professor, Religious Studies, California State University, Northridge - “Brewing memories, sustaining life in common” – The Center for the Humanities, December 9, 2020
Written by Ángeles Donoso Macaya F’21, Professor of Spanish, Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY; Professor of Latin American Culture and Visual Studies, The CUNY Graduate Center - “Confronting racism and white privilege in courses on religion and the environment: An inclusive pedagogical approach” – Teaching Theology and Religion, Volume 22, Issue 4, November 17, 2019
Written by Amanda J. Baugh F’11, Associate Professor, Religious Studies, California State University, Northridge - “The deep Anthropocene” – Aeon, October 1, 2020
Co-written by Lucas Stephens F’18, Policy Associate for Internet of Water, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions - “The Double Force of Vulnerability: Ethnography and Environmental Justice” – Environment and Society: Advances in Research, Volume 12, Issue 1, September 2021
Co-written by Dana E. Powell F’19, Associate Professor, Anthropology, Appalachian State University - “Ecomusicology, Indigenous Knowledge and Environmental Degradation in Ibadan, Nigeria” – African Music: Journal of the International Library of African Music, Volume 11, Number 1, December 2019
Written by Olusegun Stephen Titus F’20, Senior Lecturer, Department of Music, Obafemi Awolowo University - “Environmental and vegetation dynamics in the forest of Orile-Owu, southwest Nigeria, from the last ~ 1,4 k cal yr BP” – Hoehnea, Volume 48, 2021
Co-written by Kingsley C. Daraojimba F’20, Lecturer, Archaeology & Tourism. University of Nigeria, Nsukka - “From Social Media Space to Sound Space: Protest Songs during Occupy Nigeria Fuel Subsidy Removal” – Muziki: Journal of Music Research in Africa, Volume 14, Issue 2, 2017
Written by Olusegun Stephen Titus F’20, Senior Lecturer, Department of Music, Obafemi Awolowo University - “Making It Home: Solidarity and Belonging in the #NoDAPL/Standing Rock Encampments” – Collaborative Anthropologies, Volume 13, Number 1, Fall 2020
Co-written by Dana E. Powell F’19, Associate Professor, Anthropology, Appalachian State University - “Mobility, Race, and Climate in Postwar Atlanta” – American Studies, Volume 60, Issue 3/4, January 1, 2022
Written by Robert Gioielli F’21, Associate Professor of History, University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College - “Music and Poetry Representations of Oil Exploration, Honey Bee (Dis)Placement and Endangerment in the Niger Delta of Nigeria” – Bee World, November 23, 2021
Written by Olusegun Stephen Titus F’20, Senior Lecturer, Department of Music, Obafemi Awolowo University - “A Poetics of Climate Change: Apocalyptic Rhetoric in Selected Poems from East Africa” – Transnational Literature, Volume 10, Number 2, 2018
Written by Eve Nabulya F’18, Lecturer, Makerere University Uganda - “Populism and Carbon Tax Justice: The Yellow Vest Movement in France Get access Arrow” – Social Problems, August 18, 2021
Written by Daniel R. Driscoll F’21, Incoming Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brown University, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs - “Rethinking Human-Centredness and Eco-Sustainability in an African Setting: Insights from Luganda Folktales” – Journal of African Cultural Studies, 2022
Written by Eve Nabulya F’18, Lecturer, Makerere University Uganda - “Submerged Bodies: The Tidalectics of Representability and the Sea in Caribbean Art” – Environmental Humanities, Volume 12, Issue 1, 2020
Co-written by Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey F’12, Professor, Department of English and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles - “Talanoa Dialogue at UN Climate Change Meetings: The Extraordinary Encompassment of a Scale-Climbing Pacific Speech Genre” – Oceania, Volume 91, Issue 3, September 30, 2021
Written by Stuart Kirsch F’10, Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan - “Towards a Critical Ocean Studies for the Anthropocene” – English Language Notes Volume 57, Issue 1, 2019
Written by Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey F’12, Professor, Department of English and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles - “Why Pacific Islanders Stopped Worrying about the Apocalypse and Started Fighting Climate Change” – American Anthropologist, Volume 122, Number 4, December 2020
Written by Stuart Kirsch F’10, Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan
BOOKS
- Allegories of the Anthropocene (Duke University Press, 2019)
Written by Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey F’12, Professor, Department of English and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles - The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Co-edited by Jeffrey J. Cohen F’11, F’03, Dean of Humanities, Professor of English, The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University - Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation (Duke University Press, 2022)
Written by Sarah Elizabeth Vaughn F’15, F’12, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley - Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches (Routledge, 2015)
Co-edited by Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey F’12, Professor, Department of English and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles - God and the Green Divide: Religious Environmentalism in Black and White (University of California Press, 2016)
Written by Amanda J. Baugh F’11, Associate Professor, Religious Studies, California State University, Northridge - Landscapes of Power: Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation (Duke University Press, 2018)
Written by Dana E. Powell F’19, Associate Professor, Anthropology, Appalachian State University - The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics (New York University Press, 2020)
Written by Hsuan Hsu F’18, F’12, Professor of English, University of California Davis - Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi (Duke University Press, 2019)
Written by Gökçe Günel F’13, Assistant Professor in Anthropology and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Rice University - Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman (University of Minnesota Press, 2015)
Written by Jeffrey J. Cohen F’11, F’03, Dean of Humanities, Professor of English, The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University
PODCASTS
- “Hsuan L. Hsu, ‘The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics'” – New Books Network, November 2, 2021
Features Interview with Hsuan Hsu F’18, F’12, Professor of English, University of California Davis - “Music and Environmental Justice in Nigeria” – Public Lands Podcast, February 21, 2022
Features interview with Olusegun Stephen Titus F’20, Senior Lecturer, Department of Music, Obafemi Awolowo University - “Religion and Climate Change” – The Revealer Podcast, Episode 18, October 7, 2021
Features interview with Amanda J. Baugh F’11, Associate Professor, Religious Studies, California State University, Northridge
VIDEOS
- Religion and Climate Change Webinar – Hosted by the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture
Featured panelist Amanda J. Baugh F’11, Associate Professor, Religious Studies, California State University, Northridge
WEBSITES
- Archives In Common
Written by Ángeles Donoso Macaya F’21, Professor of Spanish, Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY; Professor of Latin American Culture and Visual Studies, The CUNY Graduate Center
Scholarly Resources Recommended by ACLS Fellows
BOOKS
- Iheka, Cajetan Nwabueze. Naturalizing Africa: Ecological Violence, Agency, and Postcolonial Resistance in African Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Recommended by Eve Nabulya F’18, Lecturer, Makerere University Uganda - Huggan, Graham, and Helen Tiffin. Postcolonial ecocriticism: Literature, animals, environment (Routledge, 2015)
Recommended by Eve Nabulya F’18, Lecturer, Makerere University Uganda - Iovino, Serenella, and Serpil Oppermann, eds. Material ecocriticism (Indiana University Press, 2014)
Recommended by Eve Nabulya F’18, Lecturer, Makerere University Uganda - Okuyade, Ogaga, ed. Eco-critical literature: regreening African landscapes (African Books Collective, 2013)
Recommended by Eve Nabulya F’18, Lecturer, Makerere University Uganda