{"id":116831,"date":"2020-04-27T10:55:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T20:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=116831"},"modified":"2021-03-31T16:59:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T02:59:27","slug":"climate-change-environmental-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/27\/climate-change-environmental-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"$100K<\/abbr> fellowship funds to focus on climate change, environmental poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

\"waves<\/p>\n

Craig Santos Perez<\/strong> said he was “shocked, excited, honored and grateful” to win a prestigious national fellowship and more than $100,000 in funding. The University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> at M\u0101noa associate professor of English<\/a> is one of 12 awardees of the 2020 Mellon\/American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS<\/abbr>) Scholars and Society Fellowship.<\/p>\n

\"Craig
Craig Santos Perez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

His project will focus on the effects of climate change on the state of Hawaiʻi<\/span>, and will use poetry to articulate indigenous ecological beliefs, critique the history of ecological imperialism, advocate for environmental justice and imagine sustainable futures.<\/p>\n

“I am passionate about poetry because it is a powerful and creative way to address and educate the public about climate change, the most urgent issue in the Pacific today,” said Santos Perez.<\/p>\n

Each awardee is offered a stipend of $75,000, and an additional $15,000 for programming that bridges community-engaged work with doctoral education, $10,000 for the fellows\u2019 partner organizations and $6,000 for research and project costs.<\/p>\n

Santos Perez, a native of Guam, said the research funds will be used for books and curriculum materials, and editing and publishing of a new anthology. The additional funding will go toward a series of literary and environmental events on and off the 东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa campus. His partner organization is the Pacific Writers’ Connection<\/a>, a Hawaiʻi<\/span>-based non-profit, whose executive director is Takiora Ingram<\/strong>, a renowned Pacific author, scholar and 东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa graduate.<\/p>\n

The Mellon\/ACLS<\/abbr> Scholars and Society Fellowship is in its second year. The program provides opportunities for faculty in PhD<\/abbr> humanities departments to address important societal questions in their research, serve as ambassadors for humanities scholarship and broaden support for innovations in doctoral education. The awards are funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.<\/p>\n

—By Marc Arakaki<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Craig Santos Perez is one of 12 awardees of the 2020 Mellon\/ACLS<\/abbr> Scholars and Society Fellowship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[163,342,598,1314,73],"class_list":["post-116831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-college-of-languages-linguistics-and-literature","tag-english","tag-faculty-recognition","tag-manoa-sustainability","tag-sustainability","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116831"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124524,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116831\/revisions\/124524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}