Pritchard 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
Pritchard's 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] Pritchard has also written,with Carl A. Zimring,Technology and the Environment in History.[4] 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 grant[5] and Cornell University's Society for the Humanities.[6] Pritchard delivered the 2017 Melville-Nelles-Hoffmann 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] Pritchard 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] In Fall 2020,she co-edited a special volume of Minding Nature on "Climate Change,Coronavirus,and Environmental Justice:A Collection of Undergraduate Creative Projects."[1] Her most recent work addresses the history,legacy,and ethics of light-pollution.[13]
Awards
In 2005,Pritchard won the Joel A. Tarr Envirotech Article Prize.[14]
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. ISSN0022-2801.
Lekan, Thomas (October 2012). "Review of Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône". Environmental History. 17: 868–871. doi:10.1093/envhis/ems092.
Clout, Hugh (2012). "Review of Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône". Modern & Contemporary France. 20: 116–117. doi:10.1080/09639489.2011.640119. S2CID145742740.
Pearson, Chris (2011–2012). "Review of Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône". French History. 25: 530–531. doi:10.1093/fh/crr077.
Ford, Caroline (2012). "Review of Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône". Canadian Journal of History. 47: 162–164. doi:10.3138/cjh.47.1.162.
Hamblin, Jacob (December 2011). "Review of Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône". Isis. 102: 809–810. doi:10.1086/664899.
"Dolly Jørgensen, Finn Arne Jørgensen, and Sara B. Pritchard, editors. New Natures: Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology Studies". The American Historical Review. 118 (5): 1646. 2013. doi:10.1093/ahr/118.5.1646a.
Cohen, B. R. (2014). "New Natures: Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology Studies. Edited by Dolly Jørgensen, Finn Arne Jørgensen, and Sara Pritchard. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013. viii + 292 pp. Illustrations, table, notes, and index. Paper $27.95". Environmental History. 19 (3): 575–576. doi:10.1093/envhis/emu039.
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