I.K. Allen asks what happens when universities take fossil fuel money while cutting the humanities. Allen argues that these shifts belong to the same political moment. Oil and gas funding continues to move into universities through research centres, partnerships, STEM programs, and private donations. At the same time, humanities departments are being closed, defunded, and pushed into casual labour. Allen calls this “petro-precarity”: the hollowing out of the fields that help us understand fossil capitalism, climate crisis, racism, gender, labour, and the rise of the far right.