Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization
Division of Social Sciences, The University of Chicago

2025

Sachaet Pandey-Geeta Mantraraj (with Elizabeth Chatterjee)

Article

2024

Paleoecosystems of Early Modern Colonization in the Caribbean: The Case of Chengue Bay, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia

Alice Diaz

Grant

Building the British Empire in Jamaica

Zackery Gostisha

Grant

A History of Plankton Science from Protoplasm to Petroleum

Zi Yun Huang

Grant

A Project of Counter-Mapping: Tracing Intimacy and Touch between Valero Energy and the Greater Memphis Area

Ashley Jackson

Grant

Northern Cheyenne water governance and the spatial politics of bottled water

Daliyah Killsback

Grant

Unruling the Subcontinent: Environment and Empire between the Lines

Tyler Lutz

Grant

Modern Microbiomes: Scaling Health and Environment in Global Microbial Ecology

Megan MacGregor

Grant

Complementarity in Electric Vehicles and Residential Solar

Max Maydanchik

Grant

Making Air Breathable in India: ‘Imperialist Ecologies’ of 21st Century Capitalism

Ashima Mittal

Grant

Oil Out of Joint: Handling Time, Work, and Weather in Mexico’s Sureste Petrolero

Carol Iglesias Otero

Grant

Adapting to Climate Change: How Institutions Influence Local Decisions

Betsy Priem

Grant

Half Calf: An Entangled History of Colonial Leather Books

Angela Wachowich

Grant

2023

Multivalent Approaches to the Anthropocene: Finding Answers in the Memefication of Sacred Aesthetics
Ian Cipperly

Grant

Power Crisis: The Roots of South Africa’s Electricity and Democratic Crises

Zachary Klamann

Grant

The Diffusion of State Power: Rural Electrification in the United States

Margot Lurie

Grant

The Toxic Sea: Imagining Environmental Futures in Late Industrial California

Reed McConnell

Grant

The Developmental State and the Transformation of Bombay, c.1665-1785

Maureen McCord

Grant

Wind Resistance: Contesting Post-Carbon Futures in Post-Crisis Greece

Alyssa Mendez

Grant

Tremors of the Anthropocene: Hydroelectric Reason and the Industrialization of Modern India

Sachaet Pandey

Grant

Mexican Light and Power: The Political Economy of Electricity in 20th Century Mexico

Camilo Ruiz Tassinari

Grant

Salmon Fishing in Chicago

Joshua Silver

Grant

Mineral Extractivism in Latin America: Aesthetic Legacies of Colonial Violence

Ricardo Soler Rubio

Grant

Cartographies of Capture: From Extraction to Surveillance in the Sonoran Borderlands

Alaina Wibberly

Grant