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Get to know Thomas Michael Swensen: an EH faculty affiliate blending Native American history, punk culture, and Environmental Humanities.

Darcie DeAngelo, the Annie Clark Tanner Fellow, explores how human-rat connections challenge traditional views on medicine, environment, and war, sparking new conversations about our world.

Director Danielle Endres and doctoral candidate Jessie Chaplain reflect on their time at COP28.

Christopher Low is appointed in the Department of History and is director of the Middle East Center. During his tenure as Environmental Humanities Research Professor, he will be working on his next book, tentatively titled The Well and the Water Machine: Desalination, Carbon Infrastructures, and Climate Risk in the Arabian Peninsula.

Melissa Parks is a newly appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and the Environmental Humanities Program at the University of Utah. She is also an Associate Director of the University’s Taft-Nicholson Center for Environmental Humanities Education in Centennial Valley, Montana. Grounded in the transdisciplinary area of Science, Health, Environmental, and Risk (SHER) Communication, her research employs rhetorical and pedagogical lenses to explore public engagement with advocacy and activism, particularly in contexts of environmental conservation. As a teacher-scholar and field educator, Melissa enjoys collaboratively and creatively designing and facilitating diverse, place-based educational programming in support of students, teachers, artists, and scientists.