Core Team

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    April Anson

    Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Penn Program in Environmental Humanities

    aaanson@sas.upenn.edu

    Personal Website

    April Anson is the 2019 - 2021 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow with the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities.

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    Meg Arenberg

    Managing Director, Penn Program in Environmental Humanities

    215-573-2372

    arenberg@sas.upenn.edu

    Meg Arenberg joined PPEH in September 2018, excited to draw on her diverse academic and professional experience to help grow the environmental humanities at Penn.

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    Kristina Lyons

    Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Humanities

    Departmental Website

    Kristina Lyons joins the Penn Program in the Environmental Humanities as Assistant Professor of Anthropology.

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    Ben Mendelsohn

    Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Penn Program in Environmental Humanities

    benmen@sas.upenn.edu

    Personal Website

    Ben Mendelsohn is the 2018-2020 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow with the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities. He earned his PhD in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University.
  • Bethany Wiggin

    Bethany Wiggin

    Founding Director, Penn Program in Environmental Humanities

    Associate Professor of German Languages and Literature

    215-573-8905

    bwiggin@sas.upenn.edu

    Departmental Website

    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.