Sara B. Pritchard (born 1972) is an American

historian of technology The history of technology is the history of the invention of tools and techniques and is one of the categories of world history. Technology can refer to methods ranging from as simple as stone tools to the complex genetic engineering and inform ...

and

environmental historian Environmental history is the study of human interaction with the natural world over time, emphasising the active role nature plays in influencing human affairs and vice versa. Environmental history first emerged in the United States out of th ...

. She has written books on

environmental technology Environmental technology (envirotech) or green technology (greentech), also known as ''clean technology'' (''cleantech''), is the application of one or more of environmental science, green chemistry, environmental monitoring and electronic device ...

and history. Pritchard is an associate professor of science and technology studies at Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences.

Education

Pritchard earned a B.A. from

University of Puget Sound The University of Puget Sound (UPS or Puget Sound) is a private university in Tacoma, Washington. The university draws approximately 2,600 students from 44 states and 16 countries. It offers 1,200 courses each year in more than 50 traditional an ...

. She completed a Ph.D. and M.A. from

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

Career

Pritchard works on the history of technology, environmental history, and

, 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.

Works

Pritchard's first book is ''Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône''. With

Dolly Jørgensen Dolly Jørgensen is Professor of History at University of Stavanger, Norway and co-editor in Chief of ''Environmental Humanities''. She served as president of the European Society for Environmental History, 2013–2017. Her research ranges from me ...

and Finn Arne Jørgensen, she co-edited the book ''New Natures: Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology Studies''. Pritchard has also written, with

Carl A. Zimring Carl Abraham Zimring is an American historian and professor at the Pratt Institute Pratt Institute is a private university with its main campus in Brooklyn, New York (state), New York. It has a satellite campus in Manhattan and an extension ca ...

, ''Technology and the Environment in History''. Pritchard is currently working on a book titled ''From Blue to Black Marble: Knowing Light Pollution in the Anthropocene''. Her work for this project has been supported by a

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National I ...

grant and Cornell University's Society for the Humanities. Pritchard delivered the 2017 Melville-Nelles-Hoffmann Lecture in Environmental History at

York University York University (french: Université York), also known as YorkU or simply YU, is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's fourth-largest university, and it has approximately 55,700 students, 7,0 ...

. In 2013, she gave a Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis Tuesday Morning Seminar Series talk at

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...

. Pritchard and her work have also been featured in ''The Boston Globe,'' ''The Atlantic,'' "Technology's Storytellers" from the

Society for the History of Technology The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) is the primary professional society for historians of technology. SHOT was founded in 1958 in the United States, and it has since become an international society with members "from some thirty-five ...

, and the podcast ''Flash Forward''.

Awards

In 2005, Pritchard won the Joel A. Tarr Envirotech Article Prize.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pritchard, Sara B. 1972 births Living people 21st-century American women writers American women historians Stanford University alumni University of Puget Sound alumni Cornell University faculty Historians of technology Environmental historians