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Susan Findley is from Cincinnati, Ohio, where she has worked for eight years in the Education Department at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. A senior triple majoring in Zoology, Anthropology, and Classical Humanities, she hopes to pursue a career in wildlife conservation. She is currently conducting research on the genetic variation of skull morphology between mouse populations. For the Altman Program she is researching human-wildlife coexistence as a sustainable conservation strategy for the twenty-first century, especially in developing countries. Shifting plant and animal ranges due to habitat fragmentation and climatic changes have challenged traditional customs of responsibility of management and protection across the planet.
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Tyler Groff is a second-year doctoral student in English specializing in British Victorian and modernist literature, ecocriticism, and critical animal studies. For the Altman Program, he is researching the ways in which the ecological toll of WWI prompted, within the work of poets like David Jones, reevaluations human history, natural history, and environmental sustainability. |
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Carly Kimiecik is a senior double majoring in Health Promotion and American Studies from Oxford, Ohio. Her interests are international public health and sustainable well-being. Her past research has been done on the effects that urban parks have on community health. Currently she has expanded her initial research to now analyzing the term biophilia; biophilia describes how humans interact with the environment. Through this research Carly is looking at the different frameworks and the positive conversational avenues that biophilia produces. She looks at the benefits that biophilic tendencies have on human life and culture and how these benefits can be seen through outdoor play and parks. She hopes to pursue these interests in nature and human health in both public service and graduate school. |
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Catherine Mazanek is a sophomore American Studies major from Zionsville, Indiana. She is interested in studying the framing devices and rhetorical approaches used to discuss the issues of the Anthropocene. She has focused particularly on the use of the term “Frankenfoods” as a framework to conceptualize the anti-GMO movement by tracing the evolution of the Frankenstein image and its integration into the GMO debate. |
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Matthew Meeks is a senior pre-medical student from North Lawrence, Ohio. He will be receiving his B.S. in Zoology in May and will also be graduating with a minor in Global Health Studies. Matthew is interested in travel and hopes his passion for medical access and equity will lead to a career wherein he can provide affordable healthcare to those in need. For the Altman Program, he is researching the environmental themes of the illustrated films of Japanese animator, Hayao Miyazaki. |
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Abbie Schultheis is a junior from Hudson, Ohio, studying English Literature and is pursuing minors in Global Perspectives on Sustainability and Management. She hopes to pursue a degree in environmental law after completing her undergraduate studies. She is currently researching the origin and evolution of environmental studies programs in undergraduate education and is analyzing how interdisciplinary work has prepared young scholars to combat the issues in the Anthropocene. |
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Thomas Yarcusko is a junior from Lakewood, Ohio, studying English Literature and German. He is interested in literary and cultural theory and modern American literature. For the Altman Program, he is researching textbooks and communication in the Anthropocene and how inabilities to properly conceptualize the Anthropocene, coupled with ideological problems, result in inabilities to meaningfully converse about the Anthropocene. |