Ashley Carse (NHC Fellow, 2024–25)

Fellowship Work Summary, 2024–25

Ashley Carse revised his book manuscript, The Age of Mitigation: Global Shipping and a River on Life Support, and prepared it for publication. This entailed conducting new research and substantial new writing, as well as reorganizing the manuscript’s chapters in terms of order, form, and length. He also helped relaunch the scholarly magazine Limn and edited Limn 11: The Obsolescence Issue. 

Carse advanced two new projects during the fellowship. As part of a broader line of inquiry on heat, health, and inequality, he researched and coauthored a report for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation oriented toward practitioners and policymakers. Finally, he conducted research on geology and society as part of a multi-investigator project on port development. Relatedly, he wrote “An elemental ethnography toolbox,” an afterword essay for a special collection on sand, which will be published in Environmental Humanities in 2026.