#  Leah Aronowsky 

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

 

 



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 *Research Interests: History of modern life and environmental sciences; environmental history; The Anthropocene.*

 Leah Aronowsky’s current research concerns the relationship between knowledge, material practices, and scale in the environmental sciences: how do scientists make meaningful claims about environmental phenomena that unfold on the spatial and temporal scale of the entire planet? As an entry point into this question, her dissertation, *Unruly Life: The History of the Biosphere in the Environment, 1945–90,* examines the biosphere in the American environmental sciences, focusing on how it took shape in the postwar era as a framework for re-theorizing the relationship between “life” and “the environment.” Before Harvard, Leah received a BA with high honors from Wesleyan University, and worked as a researcher at the Center for Medicine as a Profession at Columbia University.

 **Publications:**  
“Of Astronauts and Algae: NASA and the Dream of Multispecies Spaceflight,” *Environmental Humanities* 9, no. 2 (November 2017).  
  
"On Drawing Dead Fish" *Environmental History* 21, no. 3 (2016): 542-551

 **Degrees:**   
BA., Wesleyan  
PhD., History of Science, Harvard University



 

 

 





 

 

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