The 2024-25 Warren Center Faculty Fellowship theme is Alternative Ecologies led by Tiya Miles (History Department) and Walter Johnson (History Department).
The Warren Center, Harvard’s research center for United States history, invites applications for a seminar on Alternative Ecologies. This seminar will convene scholars, public-facing intellectuals, writers, and practitioners whose work falls under the broad umbrella of ecological study and care rooted in Black, and/or Indigenous, and/or feminist, and/or community-minded thought, culture, and history. This flexible thematic has been chosen to inspire new questions, highlight key issues, structure constructive dialogue, spark fresh ideas, and support works in progress in the academic arenas loosely deemed “black ecologies” and “racial ecologies.”
Topics taken up in Black ecologies / African American environmental history have often included: plantation and maroon landscapes; gardening, provisioning, and food security; the commons; rural life and subsistence practices, urban life and green spaces; animals in history and literature (including the role of Indigenous and Black people as early theorists of animal rights); womanist/ feminist eco-theory and eco-criticism; and material experimental engagements in maintaining collective land bases and operating working, life-sustaining farms. We welcome proposals in these areas and many others, particularly projects focused on Indigenous peoples and lands, Black-Indigenous collaborative land-based projects and visions, and the material and natural histories of empire, migration, ethnicity, and diaspora in the Americas.Fellows will present their work in a seminar led by Tiya Miles (History) and Walter Johnson (History). Applicants may not be degree candidates and should have a Ph.D. or equivalent. Fellows have library privileges and an office which they must use for at least the 9-month academic year. The Center encourages applications consistent with the seminar theme and from qualified applicants who can contribute, through their research and service, to the diversity and excellence of the community. Stipends: individually determined according to fellow needs and Center resources, up to a maximum of $66,000. Note that recent average stipends have been in the range of $50,000.
Deadline: Jan. 8, 2024
Applicants may not be degree candidates and should have a Ph.D. or equivalent.
Stipends: individually determined according to fellow needs and Center resources, up to a maximum of $66,000. Note that recent average stipends have been in the range of $50,000.