Doctoral programs in environmental history

Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs New York, NY : Full-tuition fellowships with stipends are available for all admitted students who are not already sponsored by their governments, employers, or a foundation. The University of California — Los Angeles, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability Los Angeles, CA : It is our expectation that all students making satisfactory progress in the program will be fully funded for the duration of their studies.

We will help you secure this funding through a variety of sources including faculty research grants, fellowships, teaching assistantships or other sources. US citizens and permanent residents who are not California residents are typically awarded one year of nonresident supplemental tuition, after which they are then expected to become a California resident. The University of Missouri — St. Louis, MO : The Christensen Fund Graduate Fellowship Program in Plant Conservation provides recruitment and repatriation airfares, stipend, tuition fee waiver and the opportunity to apply for competitive research funds.

The University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA : All students admitted to the program receive financial support for a minimum of five years. New students receive a non-service Educational Fellowship which allows them focus entirely on lab selections and coursework during their first year. In subsequent years, students are supported through various means, such as teaching assistantships, research fellowships, training grants, and other means, both University fellowships and outside funding.

Duke's University Program in Environmental Policy is a research program combining disciplinary specialization in economics or political science with environmental policy. Durham, NC. Main Campus. Leading the Charge. Kristin Burkholder. Assistant Professor of Environmental Science. Stonehill College. Lucas Joppa. Chief Environment Officer. Krithi Karanth. PhD ' Jagdish Krishnaswamy. Senior Fellow and Convenor.

For almost any environmental history dissertation topic, a viable committee could be assembled from this distinguished list. Students in our program can also benefit from the expertise of resident scholars with allied interests:. Goods mediate multiple nature-human relationships. Their production and use cultures have, especially in the modern world, altered global landscapes in profound ways.

Three history faculty—Anderson, Gootenberg, Newman—directly engage the study of commodity cultures, as do a significant number of graduate students doing research on drug histories.

Our program also offers rich and varied opportunities to intersect with the department's considerable strengths in the history of health and medicine. Recently, these fields have discovered converging interests in the human body, in historical relation to nature and as a key site in the social, political, and cultural making of human environments, new directions with considerable promise given the powerful and often controversial roles science, medicine, and technology continue to play in our lives.

Stony Brook historians working in these areas—Cooper, Kelton, Sellers, Shankar, and Tomes—offer unique perspectives on how our knowledge of nature and manipulation of it have reconfigured the world in the past and present. Our graduate students and faculty regularly present their research at important national venues, including the American Society for Environmental History.