Core Team
Rachel Antoinette Cypher
PPEH Postdoctoral Fellow
Rachel Antoinette Cypher's current research interests engage with ongoing questions of how the environment makes us who we are, and how we make the environment. Putting gender, race, and class at the center of her inquiries, she also experiments with new forms of storytelling and ways of knowing the world.
Mia D'Avanza
Program Coordinator
Mia D'Avanza is a Program Coordinator who joined in November 2020. She brings her expertise in libraries and museum exhibitions to her work at PPEH, managing projects, creating and maintaining the digital archives, and editing the Field Notes blog.
Angela Faranda
Program Coordinator, Penn Program in Environmental Humanities
Angela Faranda is a Program Coordinator, who began with PPEH in March 2020. With a background in education and nonprofit operations, she is happy to provide administrative and communications support to this dynamic group.
Kristina Lyons
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Humanities
Kristina Lyons joined the Penn Program in the Environmental Humanities as Assistant Professor of Anthropology.
Jane Robbins Mize
Public Pedagogies Teaching Fellow
Jane Robbins Mize is a writer, teacher, and literary scholar in Philadelphia. She is currently a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studies late nineteenth- and twentieth-century North American literature and material culture.
Bethany Wiggin
Founding Faculty Director, Penn Program in Environmental Humanities
Associate Professor of German Languages and Literature
Bethany Wiggin joined the faculty at Penn in 2003 and is an Associate Professor of German and affiliated faculty in the Program in Comparative Literature and the Department of English.