News & Media
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Selected Interviews & Conversations
“On the River’s Back,” Charles Warren Center Seminar, Harvard University (November 21, 2024)
Women’s Environmental Leadership Summit Panelist, Smithsonian Institution Center for Community and Environment (October 2024)
“Way Finders and Wild Women,” A Conversation with Historian Tiya Miles (Orion, Fall 2023)
Black Earth Wisdom, by Leah Penniman (HarperCollins, 2023).
Book Club: Trace, Outside/In: A Show about the Natural World and How We Use It (New Hampshire Public Radio, May 2021)
Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World, by Kathryn Aalto (Timber Press, June 2020)
Archived
MHC Professor Lauret Savoy Explores Race & the American Landscape, MHC Alumnae Quarterly
Coffee with Hx2: Students Q & A with Drew Lanham and Lauret Savoy
Kenyon Review Podcast with Lauret Savoy, by Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky, Kenyon Review Conversations
Mount Holyoke College Professor Awarded Prestigious Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, by Dusty Christensen, Daily Hampshire Gazette (May 3, 2017)
A Way of Unforgetting: Author Lauret Savoy on tracing personal and national history through landscapes, by Maya L. Kapoor, High Country News (March 8, 2017)
The Land Doesn’t Hate: A Conversation with Lauret Savoy, by Carl Sack and Brian Hamilton, Edge Effects (November 10, 2016)
The Forgotten Landscapes of the United States, by Aileen and Keira McGraw, Nautilus: Science Connected (September 19, 2016)
Earthcare Festival on “Ideas Matter,” WAMC Northeast Public Radio with Joe Donahue (September 2, 2016)
Landscapes of Memory and Loss, by Robert Enslin, Syracuse University Magazine Alumni Profile, (Summer 2016)
Interview on KGOU: Author Lauret Savoy Explores Link between Racial History and Place (August 8, 2016)
Interview on public radio’s “To the Best of Our Knowledge”: Land, Race, Memory (July 24, 2016)
Interview with Lauret Savoy: Being Made by Sun and Sky, by Jourdan Keith, Terrain.org (April 12, 2016)
Tiger of the Week: Lauret Savoy, Earth Scientist, Map Reader, ‘Memory Tracer’, by Jeanette Beebe, Princeton Alumni Weekly (March 30, 2016)
The Human Trace: Earth Scientist Lauret Savoy Intertwines Natural, Cultural History in New Book, by Rob Enslin, Syracuse University College of Arts & Sciences Headlines from the Hall (March 23, 2016)
Lauret Savoy, TRACE: Memory, History, Race, & the American Landscape on “The Writer’s Voice” with Francesca Rheannon (March 4, 2016)
Web Extra – Lauret Savoy Reads from TRACE and Talks about Geoscience on “The Writer’s Voice” with Francesca Rheannon (March 4, 2016)
Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb (January 21, 2016)
“Toward a Wider View of ‘Nature Writing’” by Catherine Buni, Los Angeles Review of Books (January 10, 2016)
Radio interview on KWMR’s Turning Pages: Waves of Joy on Trace with Joy Maulitz (January 6, 2016)
Radio interview on WPFW’s Community Watch & Comment on Trace with David Whettstone (December 30, 2015)
PEN America’s PEN Ten with Lauret Savoy (December 15, 2015)
Radio interview on WAMC’s The Roundtable on Trace with Joe Donohue (December 14, 2015)
“How a Great Book Found Me at #NEIBA2015” by Robert Gray, Shelf Awareness (December 4, 2015)
“Rock and a Hard Place: An Interview with Lauret Savoy” by Eryn Loeb, Vela Magazine (2015)
Talks/Readings
Keynote address on “Reading Landscapes As Sites of Memory & Sites of Erasure,” Mellon Foundation-National Parks Humanities Workshop, held at Dumbarton Oaks (March 13, 2025)
“Alien Land Ethic: The Distance Between,” 27th Otis Lecture, Bates College (September 30, 2024)
“Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape,” talk co-sponsored by Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, Mahindra Humanities Center, and Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability (March 26, 2024)
Keynote panelist for “Beyond Granite: Pulling Together – Legacies and Futures of the National Mall” convened by the Trust for the National Mall, National Park Service, and Monument Lab (August 25, 2023)
“Trace: Memory, History, Chesapeake Landscapes & the Nation’s Capital,” Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, virtual talk for the Mellon Initiative in Urban Landscape Studies (January 2021)
Readings and talks on Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape: Bates College (September 2024); Harvard University (March 2024); Concord Museum (April 2023); Bentley University (March 2023, virtual); Lafayette College (April 2021, virtual); Boston College (March 2021, virtual); Williams College (December 2019); Wellesley College (October 2019); Hunter College (December 2018); Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies (November 2018); National Park Partners (October 2018); Amherst College (April 2018); Duke University (February 2018); Stanford University and SUNY Stony Brook (November 2017); Washington College (Common Read, September 2017); Green Mountain College (for Common Read, August 2017); Kenyon College (April 2017); Keene State College (Common Read) and Forbes Library (March 2017); Amherst College (January 2017); Syracuse University, University of Wisconsin, Aldo Leopold Foundation, Elliott Bay Book Company (WA), Powell’s City of Books (OR), and Arcadia Books (WI) (November 2016); University of California at Berkeley, Greenlight Bookstore (NYC), Princeton University, and Vermont (Brattleboro) Literary Festival (October 2016); Earthcare Festival (MA) (September 2016); Yosemite National Park and Sundance Books (NV) (July 2016); Bay Area Book Festival (CA) (June 2016); Porter Square Books (MA), Oregon State University, Broadway Books (OR) (May 2016); Providence Athenaeum (RI) and University of Oklahoma Humanities Forum (March 2016); Leverett Public Library (MA), Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Brookline Booksmith (MA) (February 2016); Diesel Books (CA), Point Reyes Books with The Mesa Refuge (CA), Busboys & Poets (DC), Northwest African American Museum with Elliott Bay Book Company (WA), Odyssey Bookshop (MA) (November 2015).
2016 American Book Awards. The Before Columbus Foundation presented the annual American Book Awards that recognize “outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America’s diverse literary community.” The Awards are presented at the SF Jazz Center in San Francisco, October 30, 2016.
Articles about Lauret & Her Writing
“What writers are especially good on the natural world?” by Robert Macfarlane, New York Times “By the Book” (November 19, 2020)
11 Women Who Have Changed The Way We See The Natural World, by Kathryn Aalto, BuzzFeed (July 17, 2020)
10 books on American history that actually reflect the United States, by Rachel King, Fortune (July 4, 2020)
Smithsonian Scholars Recommend Books, Films, and Podcasts about Race, Smithsonian Magazine (June 2020)
Lauret Savoy Honored by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (December 15, 2017)
Class of 2021 First Year Book, Washington College (September 2017)
ASLE Announces 2017 Book Award Winners: Creative Book Award Winner Goes to Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Landscape (May 24, 2017)
2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellows (April 26, 2017)
“Trace, by Lauret Savoy” by Callan Bentley, Mountain Beltway, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Blogosphere (April 4, 2017)
Mentor and Student: Back-to-Back Awards for Efforts on Social Conversation and Change, by Anne Pinkerton, MHC Alumnae Association (November 28, 2016)
The Best Books to Read If You Love the National Parks, by Thessaly La Force, Travel + Leisure (August 2016)
100 Must-Read Books about the National Parks, by Ashley Bowen-Murphy, BookRiot (August 18, 2016)
Landscapes of Memory and Loss, by Robert Enslin, Syracuse University Magazine Alumni Profile (Summer 2016)
Interview with Lauret Savoy: Being Made by Sun and Sky, by Jourdan Keith, Terrain.org (April 12, 2016)
Tiger of the Week: Lauret Savoy, Earth Scientist, Map Reader, ‘Memory Tracer’, by Jeanette Beebe, Princeton Alumni Weekly (March 30, 2016)
The Human Trace: Earth Scientist Lauret Savoy Intertwines Natural, Cultural History in New Book, by Rob Enslin, Syracuse University College of Arts & Sciences Headlines from the Hall (March 23, 2016)
Author Traces Personal History to Discover America, by Frank Carini, Eco RI News (March 19, 2016)
“Toward a Wider View of ‘Nature Writing’” by Catherine Buni, Los Angeles Review of Books (January 10, 2016)
PEN America’s PEN Ten with Lauret Savoy (December 15, 2015)
“How a Great Book Found Me at #NEIBA2015” by Robert Gray, Shelf Awareness (December 4, 2015)
“Rock and a Hard Place: An Interview with Lauret Savoy” by Eryn Loeb, Vela Magazine (2015)
“Restor(y)ing America’s Environmental Past and Present,” invited Keynote Lecture in Environmental Studies, Skidmore College, NY, September 27-28, 2012.
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