The New Scholars Community: A Recap and the Year Ahead

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I am so excited to be the NiCHE New Scholars Community Representative for 2024-2025. In the coming year, the New Scholars will hold a series of workshops covering two important aspects of academic life: fellowship and grant writing and job application materials. This workshop series will provide members with new ways to connect with one another and allow attendees to share drafts and garner feedback on their writing from colleagues is a safe, supportive and inclusive space. Additionally, the New Scholars will host a virtual writing group, an informal tea-time chat (recurring meeting), and a reading group. 

This past year, the Amrita DasGupta and I co-facilitated three online discussion panels in March based on the Arts-based Research in the Anthropocene (2023) series edited by Amrita DasGupta. The live discussions (a first for both of us) centered on how the work of activists, artists, and scholars can be used to broaden how we depict environmental issues. Across the panel discussions, each speaker offered a new pathway to rethink traditional methodologies of research to stretch the possibilities for new narratives and histories. 

The New Scholars community serves as a network for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and recent graduates interested in environmental history and the environmental humanities. It offers a space for members to connect through digital gatherings to share ideas and resources. 

If you’re interested in learning more about the New Scholars and how to get involved, you can email Nuala at nfc231[@]nyu.edu.

Feature Image: Black-footed ferret at the National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center. Credit: Ryan Hagerty/ USFWS. Original image added to NiCHE New Scholars banner background. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

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Nuala Caomhanach

Nuala Caomhánach is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at New York University and a research scientist in the Invertebrate Department at the American Museum of Natural History. Her dissertation “Curating Madagascar: The Rise of Phylogenetics in an Age of Climate Change, 1920-2023” examines the relationship between scientific knowledge, climate change, and conservation law in Madagascar. Nuala is a contributing editor at the Journal of the History of Ideas Blog, and co-produces the Not That Kind of Doctor podcast that invites PhD students to discuss their research.

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