Sustainability, Health, and the Environment (SHE) integrates the humanities and sciences to study human and environmental impacts on the planet's resources and populations. Our species has impacted the Earth to such an unprecedented extent that a new geologic epoch has been proposed: the Anthropocene, or Age of Humans. Current environmental crises underscore the pressing need for sustainability, an interdisciplinary approach for meeting the needs of current generations without compromising those of future generations, that incorporates wildlife, ecosystem functionality, and organismal health.
Sustainability, Health, and the Environment
Photo Credit: Robin Nagle
- Agriculture and food studies
- Arts and literature of the environment
- Bioethics
- Biodiversity and conservation
- Climate change
- Demography and population ecology
- Discard studies
- Ecological footprint
- Environmental and social justice
- Global environmental policy
- People, values, and environmental conservation
- Public health and disease
- Sustainable development and energy
- Sustainable fashion
- The intersection of gender, sustainability, health, and the environment
- Urban health and the built environment
- Waste management
- Water resources
And more!
- Modeling Sustainable Disaster Mitigation and Recovery: A Case-Study of Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Maria, by Devin Speak, Winner, 2022 SHE Thesis Honorable Mention
- End of the Road. The Psychological Drivers Behind Coal Industry Preservation, by Helena Torres-Siclait, Winner 2nd Place, 2022 LS Student Research Colloquium
- Protecting the Night Sky: A Comparative Case Study Between Two Dark-Sky Reserves, by Jake Mauldin
- Made in Italy by China: Human Impacts of Globalization on Modern Garment Production in Prato, by Maura Grace Durkin, Winner, 2022 Overall Best Scholarly Thesis and Overall Best SHE Thesis
- Mitigating a Worldwide Meat Crisis: A Case Study of Beef Agriculture and Land Use in Mato Grosso, Brazil, by Monique Prior
- The Blueprints to Our Climate Future are in Their Hands: A Metamodernist Analysis of Lebanese Youth Activism on Instagram, by Samantha Dady, Winner, 2022 SHE Thesis Honorable Mention
Eugenia (Genia) Naro-Maciel, Chair
Research: conservation genetics and genomics, conservation biology, and urban ecology, with a focus on marine turtles
Emily Bauman
Research: contemporary American culture, global humanitarianism, anthropology of religion, visual and political rhetoric
Kevin Bonney
Research: Chagas disease, neglected tropical diseases, case study teaching method, civic engagement, scholarship of teaching and learning
Leo Douglas
Research: natural resource-based conflict, sustainable land management, behavior-change, wildlife trade, conservation biology
Cristina-Ioana Dragomir
Research: social justice theory, migration, gender and environment, human rights
Gerceida Jones
Research: astrophysics, in particular neutron stars, climate change, and community outreach in STEM fields
Nikolay Kukushkin
Research: evolutionary neurobiology, cell biology, information theory, molecular and cellular mechanisms of memory with a focus on the role of time and repetition.
Farzad Mahootian
Research: origins of modern science, philosophy of chemistry, non-equilibrium dynamics
Erin Morrison
Research: evolutionary biology, systems biology, ornithology, metabolomics, adaptation and phenotypic diversification
Robin Nagle
Research: discard studies; material culture, labors of waste, urban geography
Jared Simard
Research: mythology in literature and art; Classical Reception Studies; Greece, Rome, and the Ancient Mediterranean; Art, Space, and Material Culture; New York City Studies; Digital Humanities and technology in the classroom
Jerome Whitington
Research: Anthropology, environmental humanities, climate change, hydro-social relations, critical materialism, Southeast Asia, science studies
Our first seniors graduated in 2022, and along with our current class, are engaged in the following diverse positions in academia, business, and the non-government world:
Associate Merchandising Strategist
Executive Recruitment and Talent Acquisition
Graduate Student
Fulbright Finalist
National Public Radio Staff
Public Health Researcher
Sustainable Fashion Consultant
Sustainability Consultant
Questions?
Eugenia (Genia) Naro-Maciel
Sustainability, Health, and the Environment Chair enmaciel@nyu.edu"While the COVID-19 pandemic showed us just how fragile our public health infrastructure is, the SHE curriculum allows students to better understand how to build a world that is more resilient and sustainable, ready to face whatever the next hurdle may be.”
—Abby Brachio, Class of 2023