Aaron Sachs
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
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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.
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.