Core Team

  • Nandita is facing the camera smiling, with her long hair over her shoulder. She is wearing a blue sweater and glasses.

    Nandita Badami

    Postdoctoral Fellow, Penn Program in the Environmental Humanities

    Nandita Badami is a cultural anthropologist whose work examines the politics of sunlight as a modern industrial energy form.

  • Mia D'Avanza, portrait

    Mia D'Avanza

    Program Coordinator

    215-573-2855

    mdavanza@sas.upenn.edu

    Mia D'Avanza is a Program Coordinator who joined in November 2020.

  • Angela Faranda

    Angela Faranda

    Program Coordinator, Penn Program in Environmental Humanities

    215-573-2855

    faranda@sas.upenn.edu

    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 sits outside in front of grass and trees.

    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.

  • Rebecca Macklin

    Rebecca Macklin

    Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Penn Program in Environmental Humanities

    Rebecca Macklin comes to PPEH from a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Leeds, where she completed a PhD focused on contemporary Native American and South African literature.

  • Bethany Wiggin

    Bethany Wiggin

    Founding Faculty 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.