Professor David Haskell to Give Easter Convocation Address
January 9, 2025
WATCH THE LIVESTREAM HERE AT 4:30 P.M. ON FRIDAY, JAN. 17
The University’s Easter Convocation will be held at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 17. New members will be inducted into the Order of the Gown, and, continuing a new tradition begun in 2024, the teaching and scholarship of the faculty will also be recognized and honored with a convocation address delivered by a member of the University faculty.
This year’s remarks will be given by Professor of Biology David Haskell. 
Haskell’s latest book, Sounds Wild and Broken, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, a finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and winner of the Acoustical Society of America’s Science Communication Award. His previous books, The Forest Unseen and The Songs of Trees, are acclaimed for their integration of lyrical writing and rich attention to the living world. Among those books' honors are finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, the National Academies’ Best Book Award, the John Burroughs Medal, the Iris Book Award, the Reed Environmental Writing Award, and the National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature.
He has also written essays and multimedia projects for Emergence Magazine, The New York Times, and other publications. In 2024, the American Academy of Arts and Letters granted him an Award in Literature. Haskell earned a B.A. from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. from Cornell University. He is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor at the University of the South, a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, and a Guggenheim Fellow. Since 1996, he has taught at Sewanee, where he has also served as chair of the Biology Department and director of the Environmental Arts and Humanities major.
