MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale
European Studies Council

Nathaniel LaCelle Peterson

PhD Student
European Studies Council
Academic Year: 2027-28, 2026-27, 2025-26, 2024-25, 2023-24
Research Interests:

Critical theory, media studies and poetics, critical extraction studies, history of science, 20th-century cultural-environmental history, marxisms, 19th- and 20th-century intellectual history, media aesthetics

Nathaniel LaCelle-Peterson is a PhD student in Comparative Literature and Film & Media Studies at Yale University. His research is broadly concerned with the conceptual history of nature and value in extractive and aesthetic practices. Previously, he studied English literature and media at Cornell University (BA) and the Freie Universität (MA) and was the managing editor of Anthropogenic Markers: Stratigraphy and Context (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, 2022).

Department: Comparative Literature; Film & Media Studies