News & Media
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Interviews
Black Earth Wisdom, by Leah Penniman (HarperCollins, 2022).
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)
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)
Video Interview, Center for Humans & Nature, “Conversations Around the Green Fire” (2013)
Radio interview on “To the Best of Our Knowledge” (2011, 2012) on The Colors of Nature
Radio interview on “What Now: Interviews Addressing Our Global Crisis”: “Threads of Cultural Identity” (May 14, 2012)
Talks/Readings/Videos
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 SFJazz Center in San Francisco, October 30, 2016.
Lauret Savoy joins Faith Adiele and Elmaz Abinader to consider “Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape” at the Bay Area Book Festival, Berkeley, CA (June 4, 2016)
http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NtRjhbWcdk&feature=youtu.be
Lauret Savoy Reads the Prologue from Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape on “The Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon (March 4, 2016)
Video of Geography of Hope Conference panel (March 2015): “What are Women’s Gifts & Responsibilities in the Work Against Carbon Catastrophe?”
Video of Geography of Hope Conference (March 2013):
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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