Sarah Fox

Prescott College Sustainability Education Program Core faculty member Sarah Fox is a Seattle-based environmental humanities scholar, historian, and author. Fox lives and works in the Indigenous territories of the Duwamish, Suquamish, and Muckleshoot tribes. She specializes in oral history, archival research, folkloric, ethnographic, and place-based research, and fields including the nuclear humanities, social movement history, environmental history, environmental justice studies, and the history of the North American West. Fox is passionate about mentoring graduate researchers and fostering collaboration between communities and academic institutions.
 
Fox’s first book, Downwind: A People’s History of the Nuclear West (University of Nebraska Press, 2014) has been described as “compelling, well written, and meticulously researched” and “a provocative and engaging new history.” Her second book, a study of scientific knowledge production, and social movement organizing in the Pacific Northwest’s ASARCO and Hanford plumes, is currently under advance contract with University of Washington Press. Fox has published recent chapters in edited volumes including Hiding in Plain Sight: Uncovering Nuclear Histories, ed. Robert Anderson, (Simon Fraser University Library Publishing, 2022); Making the Unseen Visible: Science and the Contested Histories of Radiation Exposure, eds. Jacob Darwin Hamblin and Linda Marie Richards (Oregon State University Press, 2023); and The Once and Future Lake: Stories for Great Salt Lake, ed. Michael McLane (Torrey House Press, 2025).