Here is an evolving list of programs and schools devoted to environmental studies, animal studies, or environmental humanities.
Last updated: February 11, 2026
United States Programs
- Animal Studies at Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI)
- Animal Studies at Eckerd College (St. Petersburg, FL)
- Anthrozoology (Canasius College, NY)
- Baylor University Environmental Humanities (Waco, TX)
- Bryn Mary & Haverford Bi-Co Environmental Studies (Bryn Mawr, PA )
- The Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) at University of Wisconsin
- Colby Summer Institute in Environmental Studies (Waterville, ME)
- Eastern Oregon University MFA concentration on wilderness, ecology, community
- Environmental Humanities Initiative at UC Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA)
- FIU Science & Fiction Lab (Miami, FL)
- Environmental Studies at Middlebury (Middlebury, VT)
- Harvard University Center for the Environment (Cambridge, MA)
- Iowa State MFA Program in Creative Writing & Environment (Ames, IA)
- Institute for Humane Education (Surry, ME)
- Northland College Humanity and Nature Studies (Ashland, WI)
- NYU Center for the Humanities (New York, NY)
- Oregon State University Environmental Arts & Humanities Initiative (Corvallis, Oregon)
- Pace University: Environmental Art & Social Practice (New York, New York)
- Princeton Environmental Institute (Princeton, NJ)
- Sewanee Environmental Arts and Humanities Major (Sewanee, Tennessee)
- Stanford Environmental Humanities Project (Palo Alto, CA)
- Stony Brook University Sustainability Studies Program (Stony Brook, NY)
- UC Davis Interdisciplinary Animal Studies Research Group (Davis, CA)
- UC Santa Cruz MFA in Environmental Art & Social Practice (Santa Cruz, CA)
- University of Redlands Human-Animal Studies (Redlands, CA)
- University of Utah Environmental Humanities graduate program (Salt Lake City, UT)
- Western Colorado University: Creative Writing MA/MFA in Nature Writing (Gunnison, CO)
- Wilson College Animal Studies (Chambersburg, PA)
- Writing for Animals (An online writing program)
International Programs
- Cardiff University MA in Literature and the Environment (Cardiff, UK)
- KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory (Stockholm, Sweden)
- New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies (Canterbury, New Zealand)
- Oslo School of Environmental Humanities (Oslo, Norway)
- Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (Munich, Germany)
- University of Helsinki Environmental Humanities Hub (Helsinki, Finland)
- Warwick Environmental Humanities Network (Univ. of Warwick, Coventry, UK)
If I’ve missed anything (and I’m quite sure I have), please let me know.
