American Studies Program

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Environmental History at Yale promotes research and teaching at Yale on the complex historical relationship between people and the environment.   Yale’s environmental history offerings benefit from a distinctive global scope, with historians specializing in aspects of African, Chinese, Japanese, European, Latin American, and United States environmental history. 

Yale's environmental history faculty and curriculum are enhanced by strong programs in History of Science and Medicine and the American West, as well as related programs across the campus in Agrarian Studies, Anthropology, Art and Architecture, Environmental Studies, Environmental Sciences, International Studies, and Religious Studies. 

Students and faculty share works-in-progress at a monthly brownbag colloquium. Yale hosted its first northeast regional conference on “Social Conflict and Environmental Change in Comparative and Historical Perspective" in April 2010.

 

 

  • Thursday, May 13
  • Karen Hebert, Department of Anthropology/Forestry & Environmental Studies (Yale)
  • "Properties of Restructuring: Charting Fisheries Regulatory Change in Bristol Bay, Alaska"
  • Saturday, April 17
  • Regional Conference: "Social Conflict and Environmental Change"
  • Thursday, April 8
  • Christine DeLucia (Doctoral Student in American Studies, Yale University)
  • "The Memory Frontier: Making Past and Place in the Northeast after King Philip's War"
  • Thursday, March 25
  • Robin Scheffler (Doctoral Student in History of Science and Medicine, Yale)
  • "Places of Empire: Tropical Biology on Barro Colorado Island, Panama, 1920-1940 "
  • February 25, 2010
  • Philip Slavin, Economic Growth Center (Yale)
  • "On Humans and Bovids: Two Plagues and a Famine in England, 1310-50"
  • January 14, 2010
  • Paola Bertucci, Department of History (Yale)
  • "Earthquakes and Enlightenment: Controlling the convulsing body of the Earth in the Age of Reform"