With generous support from the Mellon Foundation's Higher Learning Initiative
By Fall 2025, the third year of the Mellon grant, we will have twenty Reed faculty offering new and reimagined courses supported by our summer incubator series. To learn more about courses developed through this initiative, please visit the Faculty and Courses page. You can also find tagged EH courses in over a dozen departments by searching the course catalogue by "Course Theme," selecting "Environmental Humanities" from the menu. In Spring 2025, the EH faculty will offer a new half-unit Introduction to Environmental Humanities, team-taught by EH faculty across the college.
Learn about our collaborations with the Sustainability and Environmental Justice (SEJ) Collective.
The Environmental Humanities initiative at Reed College fosters innovative curriculum, vital scholarship, and collaborative approaches to ecological crisis and the cultural imagination. Expanding Reed’s curricular offerings in an array of humanistic disciplines, Environmental Humanities (EH) connects diverse fields of study to urgent, complex questions of social and environmental justice in the classroom and beyond. New EH courses leverage the power of humanistic inquiry to reveal truths and promote change by examining environmental and social justice as inextricably linked threads: interdependent and mutually constitutive in crisis, but also in transformation. Fostering a more capacious understanding of social justice through the environmental imagination broadens our understanding of political activism to examine narratives centered not only on civil rights but also on what is right for those who share a place.