Aaron Sachs 
Assistant Professor
Office: 350 McGraw Hall
Phone: (607) 255-1978
Fax: (607) 255-0469
E-Mail: as475@cornell.edu
Office Hours: M 2:30-4:30
Courses
| Fall 2009: | 3150 |
Environmental History: The U.S. and Beyond Syllabus |
|---|---|---|
4261 |
Commodification & Consumerism in Historical Perspective: Sex, Rugs, Salt, & Coal Syllabus | |
| Spring 2010: | 1531 |
Introduction to American History II |
6350 |
The Writing of History |
Education
Ph.D. Yale University, 2004
A.B. Harvard University, 1992
Recent Publications and Awards
Publications
The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism (Viking, 2006).
Articles
"Letters to a Tenured Historian: Imagining History as Creative Nonfiction--or Maybe Even Poetry," forthcoming in 2010 in the journal Rethinking History.
"Special Topics in Calamity History: A Review of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth," Reviews in American History, Vol. 35 (Sept. 2007).
“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
Faculty Fellowship, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 2008-09.
Peterson (Short-Term) Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, 2007-08.
Named a "Top Young Historian" by the History News Network, March, 2007.
Honorable Mention, Frederick Jackson Turner Award for best first book in U.S. History, Organization of American Historians, 2007.
Andrew W. Mellon Short-Term Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2006-7.
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.
Huntington Library Research Fellowship, 2001-2.
Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders Research Grant, Yale University, 2001-2.
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, 1998-2002.
Project Censored Award in U.S. journalism, for an article on Nigerian playwright and environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa, 1998.