Jason M. Kelly

CURRENT Research Projects 

My research focuses on the histories of the environment, sciences, art, and architecture. I am deeply committed to interdisciplinary, collaborative, and community engaged scholarship that bridges our understandings of our pasts with our contemporary experiences. 

I am currently writing A History of the Anthropocene, a deep history of human-nature relations. I lead the collaborative project, Rivers of the Anthropocene (RoA), which brings together scientists, humanists, policy makers, and communities to study global water systems. Through my work as RoA Director, I direct the Museum of the Anthropocene Project and the Memory, Place, and Community in Global Water Systems Working Group of the Sustainable Future Water Programme, a project of Future Earth. Likewise, I co-direct The Anthropocene Household and the Voices from the Waterways Projects.

As Director of the IUPUI Arts & Humanities Institute, I lead The Cultural Ecologies Project, a research program and PhD track that works with community stakeholders to study and design cultural interventions across multiple scales — from the personal to the neighborhood to the city level.

 

A History of the Anthropocene

Jason M. Kelly

A History of the Anthropocene is a book project that provides a historical overview of the deep history of the Anthropocene, exploring the history of the concept and its lived realities. 

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Rivers of the Anthropocene

Project Director: Jason M. Kelly

Rivers of the Anthropocene is an interdisciplinary research network that examines water systems as a way to understand sociocultual and biogeophysical entanglements in the Anthropocene. 

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Cultural Ecologies

Project Director: Jason M. Kelly

Developed by Jason M. Kelly and Fiona P. McDOnald

The Cultural Ecologies Project is a public research program of the IUPUI Arts & Humanities Institute (IAHI). It asks the seemingly simple question, "How do cultural interventions transform cities?" We work with community stakeholders to examine the impact of the arts and humanities across multiple scales — from the personal to the neighborhood to the city level.

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A Frankenstein Atlas

Edited by Jason M. Kelly

A Frankenstein Atlas explores Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein from a spatial perspective. Inspired by research and theoretical approaches in literary mapping and historical geography, A Frankenstein Atlas provides scholars and students a platform to study and experiment with Shelley's text. 

 

 

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