CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES

An interdisciplinary research space focused on humanistic environmental inquiry.

Addressing global environmental problems requires not just technical expertise, but shifts in public and political will inspired by cultural change. The Center for Environmental Humanities (CEH) focuses on the role culture and communications has on environmental change: personalizing its impact through stories, art, music, and media, and offering hope and inspiration for imagining other futures.
The CEH is housed in DENIN and led by the Faculty Serring Committee of the Center for Environmental Humanities:

AWARDS

Spring EcoWriters Prize

Founded in Spring 2025, the Eco-Writers Prize recognizes UD graduate students for excellent scholarly writing in the environmental humanities. The environmental humanities is defined as the study of how human cultures and nonhuman cultures overlap, how environmental risks intersect with social justice issues, and/or how humanistic knowledge help us better understand environmental problems. Research eligible for this award could be taking place in a number of departments ranging across the humanities, arts, and humanistic social sciences, likely taking an interdisciplinary approach.
First Place: Caitlin Salomon – “From Climate Crisis to Climate Chaos? Reframing Social Panic in Disaster Narratives”

Second Place: Emaline Reyes – “Treacherous Terrain: Creative Approaches to Studying Childbirth in Disaster”

Third Place: Genevieve Westerby – “Impressionism and Extraction Ecologies on the Seine”

EVENTS

  • April 25: DENIN Environmental Research Symposium with keynote speaker Dr. Joshua Moses (Haverford)
  • April 16: Home Grown Café Fundraiser
  • April 15: “Subaltern Seasons” Guest Lecture by Dr. Sarah Dimick (Northwestern) on her new book, Unseasonable