The Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences (CENHS) is the only research center in the world specifically designed to foster and incubate research on the energy/environment nexus across the arts, humanities and social sciences. Founded in 2013 as part of Rice University’s landmark Energy and Environment Initiative (EEI), CENHS is now a interdivisional partnership between the School of Humanities and the School of Architecture. CENHS remains a collective faculty-led project developed from the Cultures of Energy Faculty Working Group at Rice, which has worked since 2011 to help pioneer the field of interdisciplinary energy humanities with support from Rice’s Humanities Research Center and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.