Cover photo: Honoring Dolores Huerta mural by Sam Kirk, photo by wiredforlego (CC-BY-NC 2.0)
Welcome!
The Women’s Environmental History Network (WEHN), founded in 2016, provides a welcoming space (both figuratively and literally) in which newcomers to environmental history have an opportunity to meet with and network with senior scholars in the field - and this has proven especially valuable for young women who are seeking role models as they chart their professional paths.
At the annual ASEH conferences, we sponsor a reception for all that celebrates the contributions of women and underrepresented groups to environmental history.
We support various projects that encourage representation of women's scholarship in journals and syllabi, and we are eager to sponsor workshops, book launches, and other events of interest. We encourage all projects that can help build diverse, lasting scholarly networks.
WEHN is affiliated with ASEH and maintains connections with ICEHO and other environmental history organizations and conferences.
The Women’s Environmental History Network (WEHN), founded in 2016, provides a welcoming space (both figuratively and literally) in which newcomers to environmental history have an opportunity to meet with and network with senior scholars in the field - and this has proven especially valuable for young women who are seeking role models as they chart their professional paths.
At the annual ASEH conferences, we sponsor a reception for all that celebrates the contributions of women and underrepresented groups to environmental history.
We support various projects that encourage representation of women's scholarship in journals and syllabi, and we are eager to sponsor workshops, book launches, and other events of interest. We encourage all projects that can help build diverse, lasting scholarly networks.
WEHN is affiliated with ASEH and maintains connections with ICEHO and other environmental history organizations and conferences.
WEHN seeks volunteers from all career stages to serve in various leadership positions. For more information, please visit the volunteer page.
Image gallery: WEHN members speaking, doing research, winning awards, and participating in the ASEH Hal Rothman Fund Raiser 2021
Call for Diversified Syllabi and Reading lists
As highlighted in the recent op-ed in Inside Higher Ed, written by a group of WEHN’s founding members, work by women and BIPOC remains undercited, undercredited, and underrecognized in our field. To help change that, the Women’s Environmental History Network is joining with The Syllabus Project to call for diversified syllabi and reading lists that incorporate traditionally marginalized perspectives and authors. We understand that creating syllabi involves substantial intellectual labor, so some folks might want to share reading lists rather than full syllabi. If you have a reading list or syllabus for a course in environmental history – any level or specialization – that you’re willing to share, we want to see it!
Send your list or syllabus to WEHN2015@gmail.com. If you’d like, include a note about how and why you broadened the voices your syllabus includes and what some of your outcomes have been. All submitted syllabi will be posted on the WEHN and Syllabus Project websites, where other scholars will access them for inspiration in course design, research, graduate exams, and more.
Help us to change the focus of teaching, learning, and scholarship in new generations of historians; to elevate a greater diversity of voices, scholarship, and experiences; and to establish a new definition for “canonical” environmental history.
As highlighted in the recent op-ed in Inside Higher Ed, written by a group of WEHN’s founding members, work by women and BIPOC remains undercited, undercredited, and underrecognized in our field. To help change that, the Women’s Environmental History Network is joining with The Syllabus Project to call for diversified syllabi and reading lists that incorporate traditionally marginalized perspectives and authors. We understand that creating syllabi involves substantial intellectual labor, so some folks might want to share reading lists rather than full syllabi. If you have a reading list or syllabus for a course in environmental history – any level or specialization – that you’re willing to share, we want to see it!
Send your list or syllabus to WEHN2015@gmail.com. If you’d like, include a note about how and why you broadened the voices your syllabus includes and what some of your outcomes have been. All submitted syllabi will be posted on the WEHN and Syllabus Project websites, where other scholars will access them for inspiration in course design, research, graduate exams, and more.
Help us to change the focus of teaching, learning, and scholarship in new generations of historians; to elevate a greater diversity of voices, scholarship, and experiences; and to establish a new definition for “canonical” environmental history.
