Why become a graduate student affiliate?

The Center for Culture, History, and Environment sponsors serious collaboration between graduate students and faculty across disciplines in environmental studies. All graduate students who have research, teaching, or outreach interests that significantly address the themes of culture, history, and environment are eligible to apply to become CHE graduate student affiliates.

CHE hosts many programs that are developed and implemented by graduate students working with faculty, including an annual Graduate Student Symposium and place-based workshop. In addition to the active schedule of events, the graduate student affiliates organize independent reading groups, research presentations, field trips, and social events at Bradley Memorial. In the past year, graduate student affiliates produced short environmental documentaries for a semester-long production workshop led by a faculty member and two artists-in-residence, the filmmakers Judith Helfand and Sarita Siegel. Becoming a graduate student affiliate means joining a creative intellectual community dedicated to exploring the changing relationships of people and environment over time.

Other benefits of becoming a CHE graduate student affiliate include:

• Eligibility to apply for desk space in 117 Bradley Memorial
• Access to the lounge in Bradley Memorial
  
• Eligibility to apply for the CHE certificate
  
• Graduate student representation on the CHE Executive Committee, the governing body of the Center
  
• Access as a registered student organization to funds for programming exciting speakers and events organized by and for graduate students

Explore the directory of current faculty and graduate student affiliates and email two or three affiliates whose work interests you for first-hand perspectives on participating in CHE or contact us with general queries.

How do you become a CHE Graduate Student Affiliate?

Please fill out the short application form. Application for Graduate Student Affiliate status are taken up and approved by the CHE Executive Committee.