The Edge Effects editorial board is composed of graduate students and a faculty advisor from the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Center for Culture, History, and Environment.
Managing Editor
Bri Meyer (she/her) Bri Meyer is a Ph.D. candidate at in cultural anthropology. She does multispecies ethnography and beyond-human care theory working with the American Saddlebred horse showing community. Her research investigates the uniquely embodied care bonds that equine athletes and their human companions collaboratively create across species. She is also invested in discussions on the accessibility of anthropology and ethnographic writing, and how the “genre” of ethnography relates to and differs from other genres of literature. Website. Contact.
The position of Edge Effects Managing Editor is generously supported by the College of Letters & Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Faculty Advising Editor
Noreen McAuliffe (she/her) is a lecturer in English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her work focuses on the effects of global environmental change on human and more-than-human lives. Her interests include the environmental humanities, creativity in science, and multimedia science communication. Her writing has appeared in The Common, The Baltimore Review, and Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, and was named “Notable” in Best American Essays. She’s been awarded the Alces Foundation Environmental Writing Fellowship, a New York State Writers Institute scholarship, a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship, and a Waitt Grant from the National Geographic Society. Contact.
Editorial Board
Tessa Archambault (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate in the French department. Her work explores representations of the environment in French and Francophone literature and film from the end of the colonial era to more contemporary works. She is interested in tracing individual and collective shifts in human perceptions of nature and how these shifts are implicated in relationships to the more-than-human world. Contact.
Dylan Couch (he/him) is a Ph.D. student in literary studies. He is interested in the environmental humanities, food studies, climate fiction, and representations of apocalypse. Two fun facts: he has never broken a bone (knock on wood), and he took his first ever plane flight in 2022. Contact.
Kuhelika Ghosh (she/her) is a literary studies Ph.D. student in the English department. Her current research interests lie in the intersection of postcolonial literature and the environmental humanities, particularly considering the idea of posthumanism in the Anthropocene through an affective lens. Contact.
Ellie Kincaid (they/them) is a Ph.D. student in English literary studies. They’re interested in queer ecologies and trans sports studies, inspired by a love of being queer, in community, and outside. They’re from North Carolina, where they grew up in Chapel Hill and got their BA at Davidson College. Contact.
Rebecca Laurent (she/her) is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology and Community and Environmental Sociology. Her work is focused on environmental politics and (in)justice, including the entanglement of oil and state, the cultural hegemony of fossil fuels, and the repression of environmental activism. Rebecca holds a master’s degree in natural resources and environmental sciences from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Contact.
Rudy Molinek (he/him) is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geoscience. His research investigates the history of the vast glacial ice sheet that has periodically covered northern North America over the past 2.5 million years. He also hosts and produces the podcast Under Our Feet, which tells stories of the geologic forces and events that shape the world around us. Rudy holds an M.S. in Earth Science from the University of Minnesota. Website. Twitter. Contact.
Samm Newton (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department (History of Science, Medicine, and Technology). Her current research explores the intersection of ocean expertise, governance, and ethics—particularly in the context of deep ocean environments, the Gulf of Mexico, and global geopolitics. Samm is on leave for FA24. Contact.
Prerna Rana (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate in Civil Society and Community Research in the School of Human Ecology. Her current research focuses on the power and politics of community development, looking at civil society organizations that partner with each other to advance community wellbeing in rural India. Her research interests include power and collective action, grassroots community development, and food and environmental justice. Contact.
Nicolás Felipe Rueda Rey (he/him) is a Colombian historian specializing in the socio-cultural and environmental history of global tobacco. His research interests include political ecology and environmental justice, particularly the multiple nuances in the scales of socio-environmental extractivist phenomena. Contact.
Audio Editors
Rudy Molinek (he/him) is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geoscience. His research investigates the history of the vast glacial ice sheet that has periodically covered northern North America over the past 2.5 million years. He also hosts and produces the podcast Under Our Feet, which tells stories of the geologic forces and events that shape the world around us. Rudy holds an M.S. in Earth Science from the University of Minnesota. Website. Twitter. Contact.
Previous editorial board members of Edge Effects include: Bailey Albrecht, Mohammed Rafi Arefin, Adam Behrman, Nicole Bennett, Kristen Billings, Jake Blanc, Rachel Boothby (Managing Editor), Helen J. Bullard, Charles Carlin, Oindrila Chattopadhyay, William Cronon (Faculty Advising Editor), Doron Darnov, Daniel Grant, W. Nathan Green, Spring Greeney, Carly Griffith, Rachel Gross, Brian Hamilton (Managing Editor), Elizabeth Hennessy (Faculty Advising Editor), Addie Hopes (Managing Editor), Justyn Huckleberry, Ben Iuliano (Managing Editor), Nathan Jandl (Managing Editor), Mary-Kate Keran, Juniper Lewis, Weishun Lu (Managing Editor), Adam Mandelman (Managing Editor), Jessica Montez, Eric Nost, Travis Olson, Mario Ortiz-Robles (Faculty Advising Editor), Laura Perry (Managing Editor), Carl Sack, Clare Sullivan, Rebecca Summer (Managing Editor), John Suval, Sara Gabler Thomas, Emmanuel Urey, Stepha Velednitsky, Kate Wersan, Kaitlin Stack Whitney, Richelle Wilson (Managing Editor).
Featured image: Built in 1887, Science Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is the home to the Edge Effects office. Image courtesy of the UW-Madison Collection.
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