Building on the 2018 conference Earth(ly) Matters, a steering committee of faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students convened speaker series, workshops, and reading groups from 2019 to 2023. The steering committee included Mark Cladis (Religious Studies), Bathsheba Demuth (History and Institute at Brown for Environment and Society), Macarena Gómez-Barris (Brown Arts Institute and Modern Culture and Media), Nancy Jacobs (History), Sharon Krause (Political Science), Brian Lander (History and Institute at Brown for Environment and Society), Lukas Rieppel (History), Eleni Sikelianos (Literary Arts), and Ada Smailbegovic (English) as well as doctoral students Sophie Brunau (French Studies), Max Conley (History),  and Shishav Parajuli (Political Science), and Michael Putnam (Religious Studies) and Cogut Institute postdoctoral fellows Mary Tuti Baker (Political Science) and David Frank (Philosophy).

The Center for Environmental Humanities at Brown (CEHAB) continues this important work of catalyzing research around the environmental humanities across the Brown campus.