Aaron Sachs

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.

Awards 2007 Frederick Jackson Turner Award honorable mention. 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography Finalist.

Selected publications Stay Cool: Why Dark Comedy Matters in the Fight Against Climate Change (New York University Press, 2023) Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times (Princeton University Press, 2022) 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 (reprint Penguin 2007)