PhD candidate April Riddle was recently awarded the 2025 Summer Graduate Research Fellowship by the Umwelt Center for Germanic Studies and Environmental Humanities. This $7000 fellowship will allow April to travel throughout Germany this summer to conduct dissertation research for her second dissertation chapter, “Temporal Displacements: Playing the Financialized Environment.”

The Umwelt Center is an international research center dedicated to exploring the intersections of Environmental Humanities with Germanic Studies, while forging connections to a variety of disciplines and perspectives.