Drawing on the themes and scholarly approaches of the Environmental Studies Program, students and faculty wove together a powerful keynote event for the Environmental Studies Symposium. The Symposium’s title this year, “Environmental Engagement in Tough Times,” illustrates the central goal of the symposium – fostering genuine, productive engagement during a time of significant conflict. The […]
Situating Environmental Studies in Mount Fuji
The Environmental Studies Program challenges students to situate their research, bringing abstract concepts about environmental studies down to earth in observable contexts. After creating a broad foundation of scholarship that inform our overall framing questions, we focus on places where these interdisciplinary forces touch down, looking at the impacts where many dimensions intersect. Over the […]
Situating Environment, Imagining Worlds: ENVS Honors Theses 2017
We are proud of all nineteen graduating ENVS seniors this year: they were a great bunch of students to work with over the last four years, and grew tremendously during this time. We’d like to honor four graduating seniors in particular—Lex Shapiro, Jesse Simpson, Hannah Smay, and Drew Williamson—who successfully completed all requirements for honors […]
Constructing a World-Class Tramway System: Building Identity through Innovative Urbanism in the “Glocal” City of Strasbourg, France
Drew Williamson’s 2017 ENVS honors thesis, “Constructing a World-Class Tramway System: Building Identity through Innovative Urbanism in the ‘Glocal’ City of Strasbourg, France,” is available as an ENVX publication here. Here is Drew’s thesis abstract: In this essay, I explore the city of Strasbourg, France and efforts the city has made to boost its standing on the […]
Unsettling Dreams: Investigating Crisis in Earthquake Fiction from Japan and the Pacific Northwest
Hannah Smay’s 2017 ENVS honors thesis, “Unsettling Dreams: Investigating Crisis in Earthquake Fiction from Japan and the Pacific Northwest,” is available as an ENVX publication here. Here is Hannah’s thesis abstract: Like many scholars in the humanities, I ask what art and stories can offer a world unsettled by change. For the environmental studies, unsettling changes in […]
Planning Gentrification: Municipal Policy & Price Effects of the Orange Line in Portland, OR
Jesse Simpson’s 2017 ENVS honors thesis, “Planning Gentrification: Municipal Policy & Price Effects of the Orange Line in Portland, OR,” is available as an ENVX publication here. Here is Jesse’s thesis abstract: The mission of creating more environmentally-friendly and socially-equitable cities is critical; recognition of this need has increasingly informed urban policy. Urban planning strategies for realizing […]