The Rachel Carson Center is happy to announce that six alumni fellows, who have previously received a Carson Fellowship, will be returning to the RCC in the summer of 2026.
Alumni Fellows 2026
- John Barry came to the RCC in 2015 with the project “Beyond Economic Growth: The Political, Ethical and Cultural Dimensions of a Post-Growth of Green Economy”;
- Ursula Münster joined the RCC in 2015 as the director of graduate programs, overseeing the Environmental Studies Certificate Program while working on a research project titled “Elephant Encounters: Living With Wildlife in Times of Extinction”;
- Cindy Ott, a member of the 2015/2016 fellowship cohort, addressed “Biscuits and Buffalo: Squashing Myths about Food in Indian Country”;
- Amy Moran-Thomas researched “Metabola: Planetary Health and the Global Diabetes Epidemic in Belize” during her fellowship in 2017;
- Javier Puente came to the RCC as a Carson Fellow in 2018 to work on “Arid Pastures and Violent Paths: El Niño 1982–1983 and the Environmental Making of Sendero Luminoso”;
- Irus Braverman developed “The Nature of Occupation: Nature Reserves, National Parks, and Archeological Sites in the Occupied West Bank” in 2018.
The Alumni Fellowships in Ecological Justice invite these six fellows for a two-months or four-months fellowship which gives them the opportunity to work on their own research project in the broad field of ecological justice.
