Eco-justice scholar Ashley Dawson named 2017 Barron Visiting Professor in environmental humanities
September 13, 2017Ashley Dawson has been selected as the Princeton Environmental Institute’s 2017-18 Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities.
Rethinking the Nature and History of Conservation
May 1, 2017 ・ Morgan KellyJacob Dlamini, assistant professor of history, uses Africa’s ecological history to discuss the effectiveness and morality of conservation.
PEI Faculty Seminar Series Video: Goldilocks in Byzantium – Did More Rain Help a Struggling Empire Survive the Arab-Islamic conquest?
March 8, 2016 ・ Igor HeifetzJohn Haldon, Shelby Cullom Davis ’30 Professor of European History. Professor of History and Hellenic Studies. Director, Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies. The eastern Roman empire was the largest state in western Eurasia in…
What Arts & Humanities Are Good For Series
September 18, 2014 ・ Igor Heifetz
PEI Welcomes Visiting Faculty Member Jenny Price as Barron Fellow
February 3, 2014 ・ Holly WellesThe Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) is delighted to share news that Jenny Price has been co-appointed by PEI and the Lewis Center for the Arts as the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and Humanities.…
Exploring the Intersection of Cosmology, Ecology, and Ethics
December 13, 2012 ・ Nick DiUlio for the Princeton Environmental InstituteEnvironmental awareness comes in many forms. Often, it is shaped by an understanding of science or public policy, but it also can be informed by religion. Rarely, however, do all three of these perspectives intersect at once—and that is the…
Achieving an Ecologically Sustainable Society
August 22, 2012 ・ StaffPEI: How do you define sustainability? Lane: I define sustainability broadly as the production and reproduction of a society relating to the environment in ways which are both valuable in themselves and sustainable over time. I think sustainability must be…
