👋 Hello, dear community! Outreach coordinator Emma here to share how things are going at EHN right now 🧚♀️
This month’s pieces dealt with questions of extinction and ecosystem transformation in two very different contexts: ferrets in Arizona and pear trees in Boston.
🦨 Olivia Davis and Risa Aria Schnebly’s essay, “Of Ferrets and Phantoms,” is an experiment in reckoning with and making meaning from extinction, beautifully narrated from dual perspectives. It was written for a special conference on “Making Amidst Extinction,” the results of which are in the works to be published in an upcoming special issue in the journal Cultural Geographies. Definitely give this piece a read — sneaky, tiny animals and meditations on extinction? Count me in (also, we definitely need a ferret emoji….) You can read it here.
🍐 Torrey Chin’s piece this month, “A Pear Tree Grew in Dorchester,” is part of our ongoing series Politics of Nature. Torrey reflects on growing up in Boston and the intertwined legacies of environmental transformation and aging reflected in her childhood pear tree. This one tugged at my heartstrings; it made me want to find my nearest fruit tree and call my beloved parents. The personal is political…and so are pears. You can read Torrey’s essay here.
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🌬️May was a busy month for the executive and editorial teams. In addition to our regular publication schedule, we also made our semi-annual Call for Abstracts, for pieces to be published between August and December of this year. This is one of the most exciting moments of the editorial year for us, as we hear from FLINTA* grad students and ECRs about their in-progress work.
🥰 Missed our CfA this time around? Stay tuned on Substack, Instagram, and Bsky for the next one 🥰
🎆 EHN is fueled by our contributors and a volunteer team who work behind the scenes editing, creating graphics, checking links and footnotes, and sending so many emails. We’re also in the midst of interviewing new candidates for our editorial and content teams — so watch this space for announcements about new folks who will be joining us soon!
🌸 Team members based in Munich got together in person for one of the Tuesday Discussions, part of programming by the Rachel Carson Center. Adrienne, Katie, and Teja Adrienne talked about their work for EHN, the publishing process, and exciting new prospects, such as our brand-new series Making Sense of ….
☀️ Looking forward into June, we’ll be wrapping up interviews and reviewing abstracts to ensure that EHN can continue to bring you a wide range of perspectives on all things environmental history and environmental humanities. And, our volunteer team will also be conducting research, defending dissertations, traveling, resting, and writing (as you might be as well). If you’re looking for something to read planeside or beachside, check out “Of Ferrets and Phantoms,” “A Pear Tree Grew in Dorchester,” and the EHN archives.
We love doing this work, and we’re grateful to you for supporting it! Keep in touch.
Until next time,
Emma and the EHN team 💐
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