Sara B. Pritchard
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| Occupation(s) | Historian of technology, environmental historian |
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| Alma mater | University of Puget Sound (BA) Stanford University (MA, PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences |
Sara B. Pritchard is is an American historian of technology and environmental historian. She has written books on environmental technology and history. Prichard is an associate professor of science and technology studies at Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences.
Education
Prichard earned a B.A. from University of Puget Sound. She completed a Ph.D. and M.A. from Stanford University.[1]
Career
Prichard works on the history of technology, environmental history, and environmental technology, as well as environmental knowledge-making, environmental and technical expertise, and conservation science, politics, and history. She is an associate professor of science and technology studies at Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences.[1]
Works
Her first book is Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône.[2] With Dolly Jørgensen and Finn Arne Jørgensen, she co-edited the book New Natures: Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology Studies.[3] She has also written, with Carl A. Zimring, Technology and the Environment in History.[4] She is currently working on a book titled From Blue to Black Marble: Knowing Light Pollution in the Anthropocene. Her work for this project as been supported by a National Science Foundation grant[5] and Cornell University's Society for the Humanities.[6]
She delivered the 2017 Melville-Nelles-Hoffman Lecture in Environmental History at York University.[7] In 2013, she gave a Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis Tuesday Morning Seminar Series talk at Rutgers University.[8] She and her work have also been featured in The Boston Globe,[9] The Atlantic,[10] "Technology's Storytellers" from the Society for the History of Technology,[11] and the podcast Flash Forward.[12]
Awards
In 2005, Pritchard won the Joel A. Tarr Envirotech Article Prize.[13]
References
- ^ a b "Sara B. Pritchard". Department of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Reviews of Confluence:
- Mukerji, Chandra (2012). "Analyzing Infrastructure". Technology and Culture. 53 (3): 692–695. doi:10.1353/tech.2012.0120. ISSN 1097-3729.
- Stanley, A. C. (September 2011). "Review". CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. 49 (1): 136. eISSN 1523-8253. ISSN 0009-4978.
- Moranda, Scott (August 2013). "Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône". Social History. 38 (3): 395–397. doi:10.1080/03071022.2013.807615. ISSN 0307-1022.
- Miller, Michael (June 2012). "Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône". The Journal of Modern History. 84 (2): 499–500. doi:10.1086/664665. ISSN 0022-2801.
- Williams, Rosalind (June 2012). "Review of Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône". The American Historical Review. 117: 945–946.
- Lekan, Thomas (October 2012). "Review of Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône". Environmental History. 17: 868–871.
- Jakobsson, Eva (March 2012). "Review of Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône". H-Environment.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - Clout, Hugh (2012). "Review of Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône". Modern & Contemporary France. 20: 116–117.
- Pearson, Chris (2011–2012). "Review of Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône". French History. 25: 530–531.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date format (link) - Ford, Caroline (2012). "Review of Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône". Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d'histoire. 47: 162–164.
- Hamblin, Jacob (December 2011). "Review of Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône". Isis. 102: 809–810.
- ^ "New Natures: Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology Studies". University of Pittsburgh Press.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Technology and the Environment in History". Johns Hopkins University Press.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Scholars Award: Light Pollution's Social and Ecological Consequences and Contexts". National Science Foundation.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Humanities Research Grant Recipients". Society for the Humanities, Cornell University.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Melville-Nelles-Hoffman Lecture in Environmental History". Department of History, York University.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "RCHA Seminar: Sara Pritchard". Rutgers University.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Rehagen, Tony (2019). "There's Too Much Artificial Light at Night to See Stars. That's a Problem". The Boston Globe.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Koren, Marina (2019). "What If We Gave Up On the Stars?". The Atlantic.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Stanton, Bucky (2020). "On COVID's Clear Skies with Dr. Sara B. Pritchard". SHOT's Technology Storyteller's Podcast YouTube Page.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Eveleth, Rose (2020). "Goodnight Night?". Flash Forward.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "The Joel A. Tarr Envirotech Article Prize". Envirotech. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
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