Alumni Fellows in Ecological Justice 2026
08.01.2026
The Rachel Carson Center is happy to announce that six alumni fellows, who have previously received a Carson Fellowship, will be returning to the RCC in the summer of 2026.
Alumni Fellows 2026
- John Barry came to the RCC in 2015 with the project “Beyond Economic Growth: The Political, Ethical and Cultural Dimensions of a Post-Growth of Green Economy”;
- Ursula Münster joined the RCC in 2015 as the director of graduate programs, overseeing the Environmental Studies Certificate Program while working on a research project titled “Elephant Encounters: Living With Wildlife in Times of Extinction”;
- Cindy Ott, a member of the 2015/2016 fellowship cohort, addressed “Biscuits and Buffalo: Squashing Myths about Food in Indian Country”;
- Amy Moran-Thomas researched “Metabola: Planetary Health and the Global Diabetes Epidemic in Belize” during her fellowship in 2017;
- Javier Puente came to the RCC as a Carson Fellow in 2018 to work on “Arid Pastures and Violent Paths: El Niño 1982–1983 and the Environmental Making of Sendero Luminoso”;
- Irus Braverman developed “The Nature of Occupation: Nature Reserves, National Parks, and Archeological Sites in the Occupied West Bank” in 2018.
The Alumni Fellowships in Ecological Justice invite these six fellows for a two-months or four-months fellowship which gives them the opportunity to work on their own research project in the broad field of ecological justice.
We are certain that the entire RCC community eagerly looks forward to discovering the unique research projects of each alumni fellow.