Aaron Sachs (born 1969) is a historian and Cornell University professor who primarily studies American environmental and cultural history.
Life
He graduated from Harvard University in 1992 with a B.A. in history and literature, and from Yale University, with a Ph.D. in American Studies, in 2004. He currently is Professor of History and American Studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. [1]
Awards
- 2007 Frederick Jackson Turner Award honorable mention.
- 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography Finalist. [2]
Selected publications
- Stay Cool: Why Dark Comedy Matters in the Fight Against Climate Change ( New York University Press, 2023) ISBN 1479819395
- Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times ( Princeton University Press, 2022) ISBN 9780691215419
- Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition ( Yale University Press, 2013)
- "Special Topics in Calamity History", Reviews in American History, Volume 35, Number 3, September 2007, pp. 453–463
- The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism. Viking. 2006. ISBN 978-0-14-311192-4. (reprint Penguin 2007)
References
- ^ "Cornell University Department of History". www.arts.cornell.edu. Archived from the original on 2007-06-09.
- ^ Varno, David (2023-02-01). "NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES FINALISTS FOR PUBLISHING YEAR 2022". National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved 2023-02-03.
5. Thoreau Society Bulletin, A Different Kind of Wildness: Environmental Humor and Cultural Resilience. Number 104, Winter 2019.
External links
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Other | |
 | This biography of an American historian is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
Categories:
- 20th-century American historians
- American male non-fiction writers
- 21st-century American historians
- 21st-century American male writers
- Harvard College alumni
- Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
- Cornell University Department of History faculty
- Living people
- 1969 births
- 20th-century American male writers
- American historian stubs