Alumni Fellows and Interns

2020 - 2021

  • headshot of Santiago Cunial posing outside with blurred buildings and sky in the background

    Santiago Cunial

    Doctoral Candidate, Political Science

    PPEH Graduate Fellow
    Santiago Cunial is currently a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Pennsylvania, where he works on political incentives towards energy transitions in developing countries.
  • Portrait of Mikayla Golub

    Mikayla Golub

    College of Arts and Sciences

    PPEH Public Research Intern

    Mikayla Golub is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She is majoring in History with a World History concentration and minoring in Creative Writing. 

  • Connor Scarlett Hardy in a red shirt in front of greenery outside

    Connor Scarlett Hardy

    College of Arts and Sciences

    PPEH Public Research Intern

    Connor Hardy is a senior double majoring in Health & Societies and Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies.

  • Sherif H Ismail headshot

    Sherif H. Ismail

    Doctoral Candidate, Comparative Literature

    PPEH Graduate Fellow

    Sherif H. Ismail is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at Penn.

  • photo of Davy Knittle in button down collared shirt and wearing glasses

    Davy Knittle

    Doctoral Candidate, English

    PPEH Graduate Fellow

    Davy Knittle (he/they) is a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate in English.

  • Portrait of Jess Lin holding a plant, in front of a dark field

    Jessica Lin

    College of Arts and Sciences

    PPEH Public Research Intern

    Jessica Lin is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences from New York. She is studying architecture and urban studies.

  • Miranda Mote smiling in front of greenery

    Miranda Mote

    Doctoral Candidate, Architecture

    PPEH Graduate Fellow

    Miranda is an artist, architect, and historian of North American landscapes. She writes histories of places as they are informed by belief and imagination.

  • Andrew Niess

    Andrew Niess

    Mellon Dissertation Fellow, Penn Program in Environmental Humanities

    I am an audio-visual researcher based in Philadelphia. Impelled by the urgency of contemporary ecological crises, I make research that highlights their disorienting exigencies.

  • Tsemone Ogbemi in red sweater and dark skirt in front of a fence

    Tsemone Ogbemi

    College of Arts and Sciences

    PPEH Public Research Intern
    Tsemone Ogbemi is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in English. She grew up in Lagos, Nigeria and Stavanger, Norway and spent her high school years at a boarding school nestled in the woods of New Hampshire.
  • Portrait of Georgia  Ray

    Georgia Ray

    College of Arts and Sciences

    PPEH Public Research Intern

    Georgia Ray is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences triple majoring in Cognitive Science, Philosophy, and Urban Studies with a minor in Environmental Studies.

  • Leechen Zhu

    Leechen Zhu

    College of Arts and Sciences

    PPEH Public Research Intern

    Leechen Zhu is a senior in the College studying architecture, with a second major from SEAS in materials science. She is from Delmar, NY.

2019 - 2020

  • Grace Boroughs

    Grace Boroughs

    College of Arts and Sciences

    PPEH Summer Public Research Intern

    I was born and raised in South Africa. I am interested in the ways in which these three subjects are interconnected and can be used to make positive change for the environment.