The (ACSF) has announced 10 in the social sciences, humanities and arts for 2016-17. Their sustainability projects range from an original theatrical performance that will travel to schools, to a legal study of Japanese nuclear policy and the Fukushima disaster, to a new book on how race and gender affect 鈥渇ood justice.鈥
The Atkinson Center launched the faculty-in-residence program in 2015 to broaden Cornell鈥檚 culture of sustainability by providing targeted support to scholars in the social sciences, humanities and arts. Working in residence in ACSF鈥檚 offices in Rice Hall, the fellows receive a semester of teaching leave and research funding to pursue projects related to sustainability, including exploratory research, artistic work, public engagement, books and articles, and course development.
Next year鈥檚 interdisciplinary group of fellows 鈥 representing five Cornell colleges and schools 鈥 will work on sustainability projects that span the globe, from the United States to Burkina Faso and India to Beijing. Religious studies scholar will focus on the ancient Mediterranean world. She plans to use her semester in residence to complete a book and design a new course on the interplay between desert ecology and religion.
鈥淎s we work to address increasingly urgent global environmental issues, the humanities can provide an important and deep sense of historical context,鈥 she explained. 鈥淎rtists have a similarly important role to play, by creating musical compositions, visual images, films and so forth that express affectively and aesthetically how humans have impacted the environment and, in turn, how the environment has impacted human life.鈥
Next fall鈥檚 fellows are , performing and media arts; Haines-Eitzen, Near Eastern studies; , English; , city and regional planning; , law and anthropology; and , city and regional planning.
Spring 2017 fellows are , government; , applied economics and management; , Africana studies; and , management.
鈥淚 greatly look forward to being in residence at ACSF,鈥 Levine said. 鈥淚鈥檓 in the middle of a book-length project on communication and citizen engagement related to climate change, and this fellowship will give me the time and intellectual stimulation I need to complete the project next year.鈥
Sheri Englund is science writer and editor for the Atkinson Center.
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