Meet ENVX contributor Hannah Smay! Below you’ll find a brief bio, class level, and a digital scholarship (DS) site link, where you can read more about their work at Lewis & Clark College. Below this information are all ENVX posts featuring this contributor to date; click on any post title to view the full post. To return to all contributors, click here.
Class of 2017 | DS websiteI am graduating from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon with a BA in English and Environmental Studies. I explore the power stories have to render and transform places, people, and systems. Through my undergraduate scholarship, I aim to better articulate the relationships between humanity and place by examining lessons from the humanities, social sciences, and physical sciences in conversation. |
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 in envir … |
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, unsettli … |
Passion is a very powerful word these days because of the amount of expectation it holds. There is a lot of pressure to discover what you are passionate about, and to then pursue it. You’d better hope it’s something lucrative! Passions can define your identity, the course you take through life, and the people you meet. Many of us in the Environmental Studies … |
As many environmental studies students come to know as they go through the program, the “s” of our acronym is often mistaken to mean “sciences.” No, we are not environmental science majors and minors–however, we do study sciences. It’s one of the many different perspectives incorporated into the interdisciplinary approach characteristic of the Lewis & Cl … |
Last night I was looking through the different nominated content for the ENVX page (don’t forget that you can nominate your own Digital Scholarship content to be featured by following the instructions on this page) and I had the pleasure of reading content by students in this semester’s course ENVS 350 – Environmental Theory, a breadth course offered every o … |
Whenever I tell people outside of Lewis & Clark that I’m majoring in environmental studies, I typically get a reaction along the lines of, “Great! We need people like you to help the planet!” or the slightly more critical, “Wow, you’re so idealistic!” These responses are interesting because they both assume (to a certain degree anyway) that I chose this … |