Members

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 Convenor

Annie Gallagher, PhD student in Landscape Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art

I am a second year PhD Candidate in Landscape Architecture at the University of Edinburgh College of Art. I focus on an embodied human connection to landscape, particularly looking at the Cairngorms National Park and volunteer programs in conservation. I completed the Landscape and Wellbeing program in 2022. I currently tutor for Situating Landscape Architecture Theory for the Master of Landscape Architecture program. 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 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 is Editor-in-Chief for Time & Society (SAGE) and a 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.