{"id":173162,"date":"2023-02-23T11:21:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T21:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=173162"},"modified":"2023-03-08T14:12:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T00:12:50","slug":"christina-gerhardt-professorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/02\/23\/christina-gerhardt-professorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor explores best practices for environmental humanities"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Christina Gerhardt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After holding two distinguished appointments University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa Associate Professor Christina Gerhardt<\/strong> of the College of Arts, Languages and Letters<\/a> returns to UH<\/abbr> to build on them. <\/p>\n

A study conducted in the 2018–19 academic year by the UH<\/abbr> Office of Sustainability<\/a> found that students were concerned about the environment, climate change and sustainability. Gerhardt is working to address this concern through the Environmental Humanities. <\/p>\n

The environmental humanities initiative was a winner in the Provost\u2019s Strategic Investment Competition<\/a> announced in February 2020. Together with colleagues Jaimey Hamilton Faris<\/strong> (Art) and Craig Santos<\/strong> Perez (English), Gerhardt co-designed the program\u2019s first course, IS<\/abbr> 260: Introduction to Environmental Humanities<\/a>, which will be offered this summer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa is already at the forefront of addressing climate change through initiatives such as the Institute for Sustainability and Resilience,” Gerhardt said. “I am humbled and honored to have been awarded these two distinguished appointments. They offered an important opportunity to see how other institutions bring together faculty and students in the environmental humanities. I am delighted to build on these experiences.”<\/p>\n

Highlights of endowed professorship<\/h2>\n

Gerhardt was the Barron Visiting Professor of Environmental Humanities at Princeton University\u2019s High Meadows Environmental Institute (January 2021 to May 2022), a Short-Term Fellow at the Newberry Library (June 2022) and a Senior Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany (October to December 2022).<\/p>\n