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.
Members
Peter Adkins (Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh)
Ramsey Affifi (Lecturer in Biology Education and Environmental Philosophy, University of Edinburgh)
Kate Carter (Senior Lecturer in Architecture Environment and Technology, University of Edinburgh)
Yashaswini Chandra (Lecturer in South Asian Art History, History of Art, University of Edinburgh)
Darrick Evensen (Senior Lecturer in Environmental Politics, University of Edinburgh)
Eszter Erdosi (PhD Candidate in History of Art, University of Edinburgh)
David Farrier (Professor of Literature and the Environment, University of Edinburgh)
Grace Garland (PhD researcher & Tutor, University of Edinburgh)
Sophie Haines (Lecturer in Anthropology of Development, University of Edinburgh)
Michelle Keown (Professor of Pacific and Postcolonial
Matthew Lear (PhD candidate, LLC, University of Edinburgh)
Killian O’Dochartaigh (Lecturer in Architecture and Urbanism, University of Edinburgh)
Andrew Patrizio (Professor of Scottish Visual Culture, University of Edinburgh)
Anna Pilz (Academic Developer and Trainer, University of Edinburgh)
Pauline Phemister (Professor of History of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh)
Claudia Rosenhan (Lecturer, Moray House School of Education and Sport, ILE)
Martin Schauss (Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow, LLC, University of Edinburgh)
Şebnem Susam-Saraeva (Personal Chair of Translation Studies, University of Edinburgh)
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)
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)