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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.

Daniel Hernandez/ Arcia Tecun is the Fall 2023 Community Practitioner in Residence at the University of Utah Environmental Humanities Program. Funded by the Mellon Foundation, the residency program aims to forge reciprocal relationships with community leaders who are using the tools of humanities and culture to further transform solutions to the climate crisis and environmental racism.

Please join us on Tuesday, Sept. 19 when the Environmental Humanities Program awards Greg Sarris - author, scholar, teacher and Chair of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria - the fifth Utah Award in the Environmental Humanities.

Come join us! Thanks to a generous award from the Mellon Foundation, the Environmental Humanities Program seeks a Community Engagement and Outreach Coordinator to play an important role in developing and executing the Environmental Humanities Program’s community engagement and outreach strategy with the goal of furthering environmental justice on campus and the wider Salt Lake community.