Our Mission and History
Seeing the Woods was created in 2012 by the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC) as a venue for our fellows and staff to contribute to ongoing discussions about more-than-human worlds and human embeddedness within them. It was relaunched in the spring of 2024 as the RCC’s “ecopedia” and restructured around three thematic categories: Explorations, Imaginings, and Field Notes. As environmental issues impact every coming generation, we elevate the work of young scholars that bridges the divide between the academic and the personal while providing access to and a platform for experiences from which we can all learn.
Featuring a variety of formats—from think pieces and investigative essays to creative nonfiction, poetry, and field studies—our mission here at Seeing the Woods is to demonstrate the relevance and importance of humanistic and social science perspectives in conversations about today’s environmental challenges. Our “ecopedia” is a venue for young environmental humanities scholars’ ideas, commentaries, and creative endeavors as they seek big-picture perspective. Much like its founders in 2012, the current editorial team intends for Seeing the Woods to serve as a resource and forum for those invested in and curious about humanistic approaches to the environment. Through the lenses of Explorations, Imaginings, and Field Notes our mission to connect young scholarship with public discourse continues to evolve.
The current Editorial team includes:
- Haley Snyder – Managing editor of Seeing the Woods
- Pauline Kargruber – Senior editor at the Rachel Carson Center
