Amelia Carter ’18

Amelia Carter ’18 is studying full-time working toward a PhD in History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Her research interests include queer ecology, cartographic technological development, critical cultural geography, and post-industrial leisure cultures.

Previously, Carter earned an MS in Environmental Humanities at the University of Utah in 2023, succesfully defending her thesis “Gazing at Queer Ecological Precarity: A Fugitive Map of Fire Island, New York, which “examines the confluence of class, climate, and colonialism on Fire Island, a historically LGBTQ-friendly barrier island approx. 40 miles east of America’s largest city. By examining private property regimes and National Park Service place-making projects along the Seashore, she (de)constructs Queer Ecology upon shifting beach sands.”

At Purchase, Carter earned both Outstanding Junior and Senior Awards in Media Society & the Arts and founded and organized the FreeStore, a valuable campus resource still in use today.