2019-20 Fellowships Awarded

The RCC is pleased to announce the fellowship recipients for the 2019-20 cohort:

Unmaking and Remaking ″Nature″

• María Valeria Berros (Universidad Nacional del Litoral-CONICET, Argentina) and Rita Brara (University of Delhi, India) on ″ River Rights: Tracing the Ebb and Flow of Judicial Currents Across Continents and Countries″
• Stefan Dorondel (Stefan Francisc I. Rainer Institute of Anthropology, Romania) on ″ Global Nature, Multispecies Approach and the Ecological Restoration of the Danube″
• Samantha Grover (RMIT University, Australia) and Andrea Rawluk (University of Melbourne, Australia) on ″ Pete who? Collaborative reimagining of peatland restoration in the Global South″
• Marcus Hall (University of Zurich, Switzerland) on ″Our Bodies, Our Planet: A Parasite’s View of Human History″
• Thomas Lekan (University of South Carolina, USA) on ″Arusha 1961: The Making of the Global Environment in an East African Town″
• Milica Prokic (University of Bristol, UK) on ″Petrified Bodies, Humanized Stone—Embodied Environmental History of the Goli otok (Barren Island) Political Prison″
• Anna Varga (Independent Scholar) on ″Shepherding the Wild: Unmaking and Remaking Hungarian Wood Pastures″
• Monica Vasile (Independent Scholar) on ″Rewilding the Carpathians: Bison reintroduction, Environmentalism, and New Forests″

Sufficiency, Postcapitalism, and the Good Life

• Diana Bocarejo (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia) on ″Living a Good Life: Ethics and Water Governance″
• Kelly Bushnell (University of West Florida, USA) and Johnny Issaluk (Royal Canadian Geographical Society) on ″Out Land: An Arctic Life″
• Kelly Donati (William Angliss Institute, Australia) on ″Multispecies Gastronomy: Entangled Worlds of Food and Farming in the Capitalocene″
• Stephen Halsey (University of Miami, USA) on ″Prometheus Bound: Environmental Crisis and the Developmental State in Modern China″
• Iain Hay (Flinders University, Australia) on ″ The Dark Side of Green: An Examination of Perverse Environmental and Geographical Consequences of Living Well with Less″
• Steven Vanderheiden (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA) on ″Visible Carbon: Transparency, Sufficiency, and Sustainable Transition″
• Rafael Ziegler (University of Greifswald, Germany) on ″ Sufficiency and Culture: Rereading Albert Schweitzer in a Post-growth Context″

Urban Environments

• Joseph Adedeji (The Federal University of Technology, Nigeria) on ″African Urban Wildernesses as Cultural Entities: Bioculturalism between the Global North and South″
• Jiat-Hwee Chang (National University of Singapore) on ″(Trans)forming the Air-conditioning Complexes: Climate Control, Built Environment, and Society in Singapore and Doha″
• Johanna Conterio (Flinders University, Australia) on ″ Greening Moscow: Urban Planning, Social Engineering and the Politics of Green Space in the USSR, 1931-1941″
• Sonja Dümpelmann (Harvard University, USA) on ″Labyrinth, Hippodrome, Race-Track: Berlin’s Urban Environments for Health and Sport″
• Ute Hasenöhrl (University of Innsbruck, Austria) on ″ Empires of Light, Empires of Darkness″
• Yifei Li (New York University, USA and New York University Shanghai, China) on ″Down to Earth: Authoritarianism Environmentalism and Sustainable Urbanism in the Age of Global China″
• Catherine McNeur (Portland State University, USA) on Sister Scientists: Two Remarkable Women in Pursuit of Their Passion
• Marcus Owens (University of California at Berkeley, USA) on ″Towards a History of the Sustainable Park″
• Kara Schlichting (Queens College, CUNY, USA) on ″Seasons in the City″
• Bettina Stötzer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) on ″Becoming Urban: Animals, Plants and the Resilience of Cities in an Era of Environmental Change″
• Winnie Lai Man Yee (University of Hong Kong) on ″The Urban in the Ruins: Studies of Ecotopia in the Chinese Urban Texts in the 2000s″

Society of Fellows Fellowships

• Claiton da Silva (Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul, Brazil) on ″An Invisible buen vivir in the Subtropical Brazil: Lessons from the Puxirão caboclo″
• Katherine Morrissey (The University of Arizona, USA) on ″ The Nature of Conflicts: Transformations of Mining Landscapes″