Aaron Sachs (historian)

Aaron Sachs
Born	1969 (age 55–56)
Nationality	American
Education	Harvard University (BA) Yale University (PhD)
Occupation	Historian

Aaron Sachs (born 1969) is an American 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, New York.[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

1. "Cornell University Department of History". www.arts.cornell.edu. Archived from the original on 2007-06-09.
2. 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

• "The Humboldt Current: Science, Adventure, and Environmentalism with author Aaron Sachs", World's Fair, November 5, 2007, Benjamin Cohen