Hunter Vaughan

Hunter Vaughan is an environmental media scholar and cultural historian focusing on the relationship between media technologies, social justice, & the environment. 

Dr. Vaughan is the author of Where Film Meets Philosophy (Columbia University Press, 2013) and Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret: the Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies (Columbia University Press, 2019) as well as numerous articles, and co-editor (with Tom Conley) of the Anthem Handbook of Screen Theory (with Tom Conley, 2018) and Film and Television Production in the Age of Climate Crisis (with Pietari Kaapa, 2022). 

Hunter was a 2017 Rachel Carson Center Fellow and is co-founding editor (with Meryl Shriver-Rice) of the Journal of Environmental Media. He is co-director (with Pietari Kaapa) of the AHRC-funded Global Green Media Network, co-principal investigator (with Nicole Starosielski) on the Sustainable Subsea Networks project funded by the Internet Society Foundation, and a member of the Convening Team for the UNFCCC’s Entertainment and Culture for Climate Action initiative.