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Dr. Tatiana Konrad, MA
Principal Investigator
Tatiana Konrad is the principal investigator of “Air and Environmental Health in the (Post-)COVID-19 World,” a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna, Austria, and the editor of the “Environment, Health, and Well-being” book series at Michigan State University Press. She holds a PhD in American Studies from the University of Marburg, Germany. She was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Chicago (2022), a Visiting Researcher at the Forest History Society (2019), an Ebeling Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society (2018), and a Visiting Scholar at the University of South Alabama (2016). She is the author of Climate Change Fiction and Ecocultural Crisis: The Industrial Revolution to the Present (University of Nevada Press, 2024) and Docu-Fictions of War: U.S. Interventionism in Film and Literature (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), the editor of Disability, the Environment, and Colonialism (Temple University Press, 2024), Imagining Air: Cultural Axiology and the Politics of Invisibility (University of Exeter Press, 2023), Plastics, Environment, Culture, and the Politics of Waste (Edinburgh University Press, 2023), Cold War II: Hollywood’s Renewed Obsession with Russia (University Press of Mississippi, 2020), and Transportation and the Culture of Climate Change: Accelerating Ride to Global Crisis (West Virginia University Press, 2020), and a coeditor of Cultures of War in Graphic Novels: Violence, Trauma, and Memory (Rutgers University Press, 2018).
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Savannah Schaufler, MSc
Project Assistant
Savannah Schaufler is a project assistant for “Air and Environmental Health in the (Post-)COVID-19 World” at the University of Vienna and a PhD candidate at the Doctoral School of Ecology and Evolution. Her research has been published in Anthropological Review, Open Cultural Studies, and with University of Exeter Press. She is a coeditor of the special issue “Cultures of Airborne Diseases” (Open Cultural Studies, 2024). She has presented her work at international conferences in the UK, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, and France. Savannah graduated with honors in Evolutionary Anthropology from the University of Vienna and has been involved in multiple interdisciplinary projects at the intersection of environmental, cultural, human, and biological sciences. She is currently completing a bachelor’s degree in Cultural and Social Anthropology. In addition to her academic work, she is a trained paramedic and has several years of experience as a medical assistant.
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Chantelle Mitchell, MA
Project Assistant
(February 1, 2022 – February 28, 2023)
Chantelle Mitchell is an independent scholar. Her research interests across the environmental humanities include extraction, temporality, and affect. She has published with Green Letters, e-flux, art+Australia, Performance Philosophy, On_Culture, and un Magazine. She holds a Bachelor in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Western Australia, and a Masters in Curatorship from the University of Melbourne. She was a project assistant for “Air and Environmental Health in the (Post-)COVID-19 World” at the University of Vienna. Chantelle maintains a collaborative practice with Jaxon Waterhouse (Australia), which has seen them present at numerous Australian and international conferences, alongside exhibitions for the University of Melbourne, Edith Cowan University, Sawtooth ARI, and FELTspace, with forthcoming exhibitions across Australia.
