Hannah Conway

Hannah Conway is an Assistant Professor of History at Duke University's Trinity College of Arts & Sciences since 2023. She specializes in environmental history with a focus on the US South, integrating Indigenous sovereignty issues and environmental justice. Her research examines aging infrastructures' impacts on communities, particularly in the Lower Mississippi Delta, linking them to historical patterns of Indigenous removal and racial oppression. Conway holds a PhD in History of Science from Harvard University (2023), an MA from Harvard (2016), and a BS in Technical Photography from Appalachian State University (2009).

Her work addresses intersections of technology and environment through projects like her book manuscript How Infrastructures Age, funded by institutions including the Charles Warren Center and Harvard's Hiebert Fellowships. She actively engages with communities through oral history and documentary photography, emphasizing Southern environmental protection and Cherokee Nation sovereignty.

Teaching includes courses on North American environmental history, the History of the Present, and research methodologies. Her recent publications analyze climate policy history and queer technological narratives in Appalachia. Conway is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation and advocates for Native self-determination through scholarship and public engagement.