Advisory Board

A hand-colored early modern map showing a side-view perspective of London. The map shows the Old London Bridge and the blue and rust-colored roofs and steeples of buildings across the river, with numerous boats floating in the water.

We are forming a collective that will promote work at the intersection of environmental and racial justice in the early modern humanities, and expand opportunities for scholarly labor informed by mutuality, solidarity, and collective action. We also hope a sustained conversation on these topics will provide support for the ongoing work (from publications to public humanities projects) of the individual scholars of this research network. Fundamental to our aims for this project is the spirit of collaboration and conversation that drove the four of us to attempt new models of criticism and practice.

Portrait of Patricia Akhimie

Patricia Akhimie

Director of the Folger Institute

Folger Institute

Portrait of Tarren Andrews

Tarren Andrews

Assistant Professor in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration

Yale University

Portrait of Anna Mae Duane

Anna Mae Duane

Director of the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute

University of Connecticut

Portrait of Holly Dugan

Holly Dugan

Associate Professor of English

George Washington University

Headshot of Ruben Espinosa

Ruben Espinosa

Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Arizona State University

Portrait of Eric Gidal

Eric Gidal

Professor of English

University of Iowa

Portrait of Thomas Thurston

Thomas Thurston

Education and Public Outreach Program Specialist

Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
The MacMillan Center, Yale University