Four U of T students will join the Institute for Environment, Conservation and Sustainability (IECS) in September 2024 as its first cohort of graduate fellows.
Each year, the IECS will offer support to PhD candidates to enable them to focus on their dissertation projects, while benefiting from interactions with students from different disciplinary backgrounds working on cognate projects. Fellows will also be expected to work on a common project they will devise collaboratively (e.g., workshop, white paper, manifesto, pedagogic tool), which they will share with the campus community and the wider public. The theme for the Fellowship will change each year.
This year鈥檚 theme is energy transition.
In 2024-2025, the Fellows are:
Jose Martini Costa is a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He holds a bachelor鈥檚 degree in social communications from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, a master鈥檚 in international relations from the University of Nottingham, and a master鈥檚 in political science from the Memorial University of Newfoundland. His research interests include energy transitions and energy development in the Global South.
Zixian Liu is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. His dissertation research examines Maoist China鈥檚 forgotten attempt at creating a decentralized, egalitarian, and alternative energy development model. Zixian鈥檚 academic interests span science and technology studies and the history of cities, labour, and everyday objects. He consistently seeks to expand the boundaries of traditionally human-centered historiography by integrating the perspective of non-humans.
Isidora Cort茅s-Monroy is a PhD candidate at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, whose work focuses on representations of mining in Chilean and Bolivian cultural productions during the 20th and 21st centuries. She received her BA at the University of Manchester and her MPhil at the University of Cambridge. Alongside her thesis research, Isidora is a creative writer who that explores political repression and sexism in a Latin American context.
Sajdeep Soomal is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Toronto writing about the history and philosophy of chemistry in 19th century Canada. He holds a BA in History from McGill University and an MA in History from the University of Toronto. He works on curatorial projects about the politics of chemical visualization with artists who are re-imagining, playing with and altering our synthetic surroundings. Sajdeep is affiliated with the Technoscience Research Unit at the University of Toronto and serves as board member for and .
About the Institute for Environment, Conservation and Sustainability (IECS)
The IECS explores the multifaceted ways human communities interact with the living world and the ways in which they interact with the environment, both in the past and present. Its programs, activities, and initiatives aim to have an impact on our environmental futures, by assisting researchers and communities to develop ways for both human and non-human communities to flourish, despite the all-too-real challenges posed by climate change. The IECS is one of the four institutes and initiatives of IRISE: The Institutes for Resilient and Inclusive Societies and Ecosystems, a tri-campus research initiative based at the 澳门六合彩开奖接口.
