Visiting Fellows and Postdocs

The Davis Center Fellows and Postdoctoral Fellows for 2023-24 under the topic of Environment and Climate:

Sria Chatterjee
Shelby Cullom Davis Center Fellow, Spring 2024
“(Post)Colonial Environments: The Politics of Visibility”
Jared Farmer
Shelby Cullom Davis Center Fellow, Spring 2024
“God View: How Seeing Earth Changed Humanity”
Camille Goldmon
Shelby Cullom Davis Center Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022–2024
“On the Right Side of Radicalism: African American Farmers, Tuskegee Institute, and Agrarian Radicalism in the Alabama Black Belt, 1881-1940”
Lijing Jiang
Shelby Cullom Davis Center Fellow, Spring 2024
“Fish Nations: Species, Technology, and Environments in Asia’s Aquacultural Transformation”
Neil Maher
Shelby Cullom Davis Center Fellow, Fall 2023
“Wasted: An Environmental Justice History of Newark, New Jersey”
Darrin McMahon
Shelby Cullom Davis Center Fellow, Spring 2024
“An American Colony in France: The Nantuckois of Dunkirk and the Dialectic of Illumination”
Lee Mordechai
Shelby Cullom Davis Center Fellow, Year 2023–24
“The Worst Year to Be Alive: Interdisciplinary Tensions, Academic Boundaries, and the Premodern Environment”
David Patterson
Shelby Cullom Davis Center Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022–2024
“Imagining Weather in Early Medieval Francia”
Keith Pluymers
Shelby Cullom Davis Center Fellow, Fall 2023
“Water, Steam, and Philadelphia’s Eighteenth-Century Anthropocene”
Rhiannon Stephens
Shelby Cullom Davis Center Fellow, 2023–24
“Gender, Power, and Climate Change on the Swahili Coast, ca. 500-1900 CE”
Julia Adeney Thomas
Shelby Cullom Davis Center Fellow, Fall 2023
“The Historian's Task in the Anthropocene: Finding Hope in Japan”