The EEHN-IASH Visiting Fellowships programme has run since 2015.
A full list of fellows and their projects can be found below.
We are delighted that so many distinguished scholars have been keen to visit Edinburgh to pursue exciting research initiatives and contribute to our community.
We are grateful to IASH and the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh for their ongoing support for this programme.
EEHN-IASH Visiting Fellows 2015-2026
2015: Dr Derek Gladwin, University of British Columbia, Canada: Spatial Justice in Literary and Visual Cultures of Ireland and the UK
2016: Dr Samantha Walton, Bath Spa University UK: Ecology and Mind in the work of Scottish Literary Renaissance writers Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Nan Shepherd
2016: Dr Sarah Daw, Exeter University, Unknowing Nature: The Development of Ecological Thinking in American Science and Literature from 1945
2017: Dr Hannah Stark, University of Tasmania, Australia: Love, Kinship and Futurity in the Anthropocene
2018: Dr Saskia Beudel, University of Canberra: Stories making sense of environmental change: scientists, artists, writers
2018: Dr Cheryl Lousley, Lakehead University, Orillia, Canada Environmental Narrative and Memory in Contemporary Canadian Fiction
2018: Dr Jeremy Davies, University of Leeds: The Anthropocene Epoch and the Geologic Time Scale
2018: Dr Daniel Finch-Race, Durham University, Nineteenth‐Century Normandy and the Environmental Humanities: From Landscape Art to the Industrial Novel, 1850‐1900
2018: Dr Anna Pilz, University College Cork, Ireland: The Wooded Isle: Trees, Inheritance, and Estates in Irish Writing
2020: Professor Christopher Lee, Lafayette College, USA: A History of the Nighttime in South Africa
2020: Professor Hester Blum, Penn State University, USA: Ice Ages
2020: Professor Christina Seely, Dartmouth College, USA: Next of Kin: Art and the Role of the Empathic in Addressing the Current Climate Crisis
2020: Dr Jessica White, University of Queensland, Australia: From the Miniature to the Momentous: An Ecobiography of Georgiana Molloy
2021: Dr Brett Buchanan, Laurentian University, Canada: Animal Fakers: Philosophy, Ethology, Art
2021: Dr Nicole Seymour, California State University, Fullerton, USA: Glitter
2021: Dr Alexandra Cotofanā, Zayed University, UAE: Carpathian Imaginaries: the making of geological architectures of liminality
2021: Professor Lawrence Ugwuanyi, University of Abuja, Nigeria: Exploring Environmental Ethics through the Concept of Ala in Igbo thought
2021: Dr Paul Merchant, University of Bristol: Rethinking the Blue Humanities from the Pacific
2023: Dr Kat Hill, Birkbeck College, University of London: Simple Shelter: Bothies, Environmentalism and Communities of Place
2024: Dr Henry Ivry, University of Glasgow: Insurgent Listening: Black Ecologies in the Sonic Undercommons
2024: Professor Dolly Jörgensen, University of Stavanger, Norway: Reefs or Rubbish? A Comparative History of Rigs-to-Reef Policy
2024: Dr Sarah Dimick, Harvard University, USA: Unseasonable
2025: Dr Brittany Meché, Williams College, USA: Desert Black: Arid Lands and Imperial Democracy in the Transatlantic World
2025: Dr Ina Linge, University of Exeter: Queer Natures: Animals, Environment and Modern Sexual Knowledge Production in Germany (1860s to 1930s)
2026: Dr Diego Molina, Royal Holloway, University of London: The ornamental exchange: transatlantic urbanism and plants in the Andes and Europe
