EnviroLab

EnviroLab is a workspace dedicated to supporting cutting edge graduate research on environment society relations at the University of Pennsylvania. Drawing together research in anthropology, history, science and technology studies, urban geography and the physical sciences we ask: How might situated human-animal-environment relations be key sites from which to reimagine and rearticulate more just and nourishing modes of inhabiting of our climate changed planet? In particular, our research thinks with the entangled relations of waterscapes, pollution and toxicity, late industrialism, human-animal and interspecies relations, the climate emergency and racialized geographies.

Based in the Department of Anthropology, EnviroLab supports graduate students research at all stages of their PhD, focusing on hosting workshops where students share works in progress (conferences papers, proposals, dissertation chapters and article drafts). Envirolab also hosts events open to the public, including a monthly reading group, faculty workshops, and an annual conference.