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Faculty Feature: Darcie DeAngelo

Faculty Feature: Darcie DeAngelo

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.

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Christopher Low: 2023-25 Environmental Humanities Research Professor

Chris Low

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.

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Faculty Feature: Melissa Parks

Faculty Feature: Melissa Parks

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.

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Farewell Reflections with Director Jeff McCarthy

Farwell to Jeffrey McCarthy

After nine years of leadership, Dr. Jeffrey McCarthy is officially retiring from his position as Director of the Environmental Humanities Program. Jeff assumed directorship of the Program in 2014. Since then, he has successfully graduated nearly 70 students and placed many of them in PhD programs, professional programs, non-profit leadership roles, and Fulbright program; created the Utah Award in the Environmental Humanities to celebrate environmental leadership and expression; organized two leadership symposia for regional Environmental Humanities academic leaders; encouraged vigorous relationships with U of U research organizations like Taft-Nicholson Center and Bonderman Field Station at Rio Mesa; hired new faculty members including Lizzie Callaway, Diana Leong and Angela Robinson; organized the Environmental Humanities Research Interest Group on campus; and most recently is the recipient of a Mellon Foundation grant that created an Environmental Humanities Community Fellows Program to promote environmental justice and all the while, published three books.

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