Fulbright Experience:
Fulbright, Nicaragua

About Dr. Howe:

Cymene Howe is Professor of Anthropology and Co-Founder of the Science and Technology Studies Program at Rice University. Her books include Intimate Activism (Duke 2013) Ecologics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene (Duke 2019), Anthropocene Unseen (Punctum 2020), Solarities: Elemental Encounters and Refractions (Punctum 2023) and The Johns Hopkins Guide to Critical and Cultural Theory. Over the past decade and a half, her research has been dedicated to environmental concerns – from energy transition and climate mitigation to glacial melt, sea level rise and climate adaptation on a global scale. She has created many public-facing events to raise climate awareness including the world’s first glacier funeral for Okjökull in Iceland, the Global Glacier Casualty List and Sister Cities for the Anthropocene. Her field research in Nicaragua, Mexico, Iceland, South Africa, Hawai’i and Greenland has been funded by the NSF, Fulbright, and Mellon Foundation, among others. She is a recipient of The Berlin Prize for Transatlantic Dialogue in the Arts, Humanities, and Public Policy as well as a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency. Cymene’s projects and collaborative interventions center on the ways that humans and nonhumans, ecosystems and geohuman phenomena can lead us toward creative possibilities for mutual thriving; she is currently writing a book entitled The Elemental Turn.

What I like about Rice/Houston:

Rice: the camaraderie among faculty and staff + the live oaks. Houston: the food scene.

What I like about the Fulbright Program:

The range of countries involved and the diversity of programs available for international intellectual exchange

Fun fact about me:

I was an extra in the movie The Lost Boys, which was shot in my hometown