Conveners
Hannah Boast, Chancellor’s Fellow, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Hannah Boast is Chancellor’s Fellow at University of Edinburgh and author of Hydrofictions: Water, Power and Politics in Israeli and Palestinian Literature (Edinburgh University Press, 2020). Hydrofictions was shortlisted for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment UK and Ireland (ASLE-UKI) Book Prize 2021. Hannah works across cultural geography, political ecology, animal studies and contemporary literary studies, and is Associate Editor of Environmental Humanities. Full profile here.
Zeynep Oguz, Lecturer in Anthropology of Development, School of Social and Political Science
I am interested in how political projects —repressive and liberatory— conspire with earthly forces; and I examine these interactions (or “political geologies”) in the context of fossil fuel extraction, energy transitions, insurgency and counter-insurgency, nationalism, and lately, right-wing and climate movements. I have worked on these topics in Turkey, Cyprus, and the US. My work is in dialogue with political and environmental anthropology, and at the same time, is in conversation with political geography, geophilosophy, political theory, and political ecology. I am particularly interested in interdisciplinary approaches around the critical study of fossil fuel politics, energy transitions, state violence, counter-insurgency, territorial politics, histories of violence, and energy futures. Full profile here
Postgraduate Convenors
Alice Barron-Eaves, PhD Student in Creative Writing, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Alice is a writer and PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on using poetry as a method for articulating cultural heritage and place-making within the Forest of Bowland, Lancashire. Alongside her PhD, she is Head Poetry Editor at Forest Publications and Editor of the translated poetry collection ‘Tiny Flames: Voices from Ukraine’, featured on BBC Scotland. Full profile here
Anna Stacey, PhD Student in History of Art, Edinburgh College of Art and Queen Margaret University
Anna’s PhD collaborates with NatureScot to research how visual practices can cultivate relations with Scottish landscapes and species. The research addresses concerns within academia and conservation organisations about increasing levels of human disconnection from nature in the context of the anthropogenic climate and biodiversity crises. Drawing on a range of contemporary visual material, including photography, film and art, Anna’s work asks what role the visual might play in shaping ecological consciousness, care and connection. Through undertaking fieldwork with community conservation projects and deploying visual participatory methods, Anna aims to investigate how relationships with Scottish landscapes and species are formed, mediated, fostered and shared.
Anna has dual affiliation with Queen Margaret University, where she is based in Psychology, Sociology and Education. Alongside her doctoral studies, she is an active member of the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network and PhD Lab and recently participated in the SGSAH/British Council Earth Scholarships programme. Anna holds an MA in Visual Anthropology from Aarhus University and a BA in Liberal Arts (Spanish) from the University of Leeds. Full profile here.
Postgraduate Mentor
Michelle Bastian, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Humanities, Edinburgh College of Art
Michelle is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Humanities at the Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh and was recently an Associate Professor II at the University of Oslo in the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities. Her work crosses critical time studies and environmental humanities, with a focus on the role of time in human and more-than-human communities. She was the Editor-in-Chief for Time & Society (SAGE) from 2019-2025 and has been the co-editor of a number of collections including, The Social Life of Time (Time & Society), Field Philosophy and Other Experiments (Parallax) and Participatory Research in More-than-Human Worlds (Routledge). Michelle has recent publications in Environment and Planning E, Environmental Humanities and GeoHumanities. From 2021-2022, Michelle was a Mid-Career Fellow supported by the Independent Social Research Fund, looking at the scientific study of lifecycle events (phenology) and how it could contribute to work in the environmental humanities. She supports the EEHN PhD Lab.
Members
Peter Adkins, Lecturer in Modernist Literature
Ramsey Affifi, Lecturer in Biology Education and Environmental Philosophy
Michael J. Albert, Lecturer in Global Environmental Politics
Sharon Boyd, Senior Lecturer in Distance Student Learning
Kate Carter, Senior Lecturer in Architecture Environment and Technology
Yashaswini Chandra, Lecturer in South Asian Art History
Glen Cousquer, Interdisciplinary Lecturer in One Health and Conservation Medicine
Tim Cresswell, Ogilvie Professor of Geography
Tiffany Dang, Lecturer in Landscape Architecture
Annette Davison, Personal Chair in Music and Audiovisual Media
Alice Eaves, PhD in Creative Writing
Darrick Evensen, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Politics
Eszter Erdosi, PhD Candidate in History of Art
David Farrier, Professor of Literature and the Environment
Grace Garland, PhD Candidate in Political Theory
Jonathan Gardner, Chancellor’s Fellow in Contemporary Archaeology
Sophie Haines, Lecturer in Anthropology of Development
Rachel J. Harkness, Lecturer in Design Ecologies
Michelle Keown, Professor of Pacific and Postcolonial
Matthew Lear, PhD Candidate in Literature
Yixuan Li, PhD student in Sociology
Eli Lichtenstein, Lecturer in Philosophy
Jane McKie, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing
Jincheng Meng, PhD Candidate in Landscape Architecture
Suzanna Millar, Lecturer in Hebrew Bible / Old Testament
Jess Mitchell, Chancellor’s Fellow in Behavioural Ecology
Killian O’Dochartaigh, Lecturer in Architecture and Urbanism
Hafsa Olcay, Teaching Fellow in Architectural Theory
David Overend, Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Studies
Andrew Patrizio, Professor of Scottish Visual Culture
Anna Pilz, Academic Developer and Trainer
Pauline Phemister, Professor of History of Philosophy
David Rojas Lizama, PhD Candidate in Philosophy
Claudia Rosenhan, Lecturer, Moray House School of Education and Sport
Liam Ross, Architect and Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design
Sam Spiegel, Senior Lecturer in International Development
Şebnem Susam-Saraeva, Personal Chair of Translation Studies
Anna Stacey, PhD Candidate in Art History (UoE and QMU)
Elizabeth Vander Meer, Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Studies
Yafei Wang, PhD Candidate in Landscape Architecture
Luca Zenobi, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, School of History, Classics and Archaeology
Affiliates
Timothy C. Baker (Personal Chair in Scottish and Contemporary Literature, University of Aberdeen)
Daniele Fulvi (Lecturer, Western Sydney University)
Fred Carter (Research Fellow, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow)
Michael Hrebeniak (Convenor, New School of the Anthropocene / Lecturer in Film Poetics, UCL)
Zsuzsanna Ihar (PhD Candidate/Gates Scholar, University of Cambridge)
Henry Ivry (Lecturer in 20th & 21st Century Literature, University of Glasgow)
Roxani Krystalli (Lecturer, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews)
Martin Schauss (Lecturer in Comparative Literature, University of Glasgow)
Maria Sledmere ( Lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry), University of Strathclyde)
Leslie Sklair (Emeritus Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics)
Antonia Thomas (Lecturer in Archaeology, University of the Highlands and Islands)