Evan Singer

Evan Singer is a fifth-year combined doctoral degree candidate at the School of the Environment and Department of Anthropology at Yale University. He studies how social and political factors interact with environmental systems to influence human well-being. His dissertation research explores how people who experience mental illness and homelessness cope with living outside, especially during extreme weather events. He has worked locally and internationally on climate change and environmental health issues, including at the Yale Environmental Leadership Training Initiative, the Center for International Forestry Research (Vietnam), the Peace Corps (Cameroon), the Sierra Club of Pennsylvania, Project Gaia, and Indiana University Bloomington. His published worked has addressed evacuation decision making during environmental disasters (Singer et al. 2025), the contribution of disability studies to models of environmental restoration (Kanoi et al. 2024), and the emergence of the field of climate psychiatry (Singer et al. forthcoming).