Aaron Sachs

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Assistant Professor

Office: 350 McGraw Hall
Phone: (607) 255-1978
Fax: (607) 255-0469
E-Mail: as475@cornell.edu

Office Hours: TBA

Education

Ph.D. Yale University, 2004
A.B. Harvard University, 1992

Courses

Fall 2008:	4813	Environments and Waterscapes
Spring 2009:		On Leave

Recent Publications and Awards

Publications

The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism (Viking, 2006).

Articles

“Civil Rights in the Field: Carey McWilliams as a Public-Interest Historian and Social Ecologist,” Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 73 (May 2004).

“The Ultimate ‘Other’: Post-Colonialism and Alexander von Humboldt’s Ecological Relationship with Nature,” History and Theory, Theme Issue on the Environment, Vol. 42, December, 2003.

“Cold, Hard, Facts,” Palimpsest, Vol. 1, No. 1 (May 2003).

“Virtual Ecology: A Brief Environmental History of Silicon Valley,” World Watch, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Jan/Feb 1999).

Awards

Andrew W. Mellon Short-Term Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2006-7.
Humanities research grant, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, Summer, 2006.

John Addison Porter Prize (for dissertation), Yale University, 2005.

George Washington Egleston Historical Prize (for dissertation), Yale University, 2005.

Prize Teaching Fellowship, Yale University, 2003-4.

Mrs. Giles Whiting Dissertation Fellowship, 2003-4.

Graduate Affiliate Fellowship, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, 2003-4.

John F. Enders Research Fellowship, Yale University, 2002.

Huntington Library Research Fellowship, 2001-2.

Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders Research Grant, Yale University, 2001-2.

Bienecke Library Research Fellowship, 2001.

Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, 1998-2002.

Honorary Mellon Fellowship, 1998-99.

Project Censored Award in U.S. journalism, for an article on Nigerian playwright and environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa, 1998.