Clip aBOVE from “Beaver Dance” (2014), a performance by Christy Gast and Camila Marambio, recorded on Navarino Island in the Fuegian Archipelago of Chile.

The Environmental Humanities at Dartmouth College

The Environmental Humanities is a thriving field that seeks to resituate humanistic questions and approaches at the center of scientific work on the major environmental problems of our age: climate change, pollution, clean water loss, resource depletion, and the degradation of indigenous lands.  Inherently interdisciplinary, the Environmental Humanities asks humanists to join forces with scientists, engineers, and leaders outside the academy—politicians, activists, and entrepreneurs—to address shared environmental concerns and to propose thoughtful and informed solutions.

The Environmental Humanities at Dartmouth is an initiative designed to foster intellectual collaboration and develop a network of scholars, teachers, activists, and students interested in the multiple points of intersection between the environment and culture, society, art, history, technology, and politics. Dartmouth, with its rural location and strong ties to the natural environment, with its faculty expertise in Environmental Studies, Arctic Studies, as well as Anthropology, Geography, African & African American Studies, English, the Languages, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Comparative Literature, Middle Eastern Studies, Studio Art, Philosophy, Native American Studies, and History—all fields that have seen a growth of recent interest in the Environmental Humanities space—is perfectly poised to become a leader in this emerging field.