About me
Dr. Sara Dant is an award-winning writer, historian, distinguished professor emeritus, and avid outdoor enthusiast currently residing in the Galisteo River Valley outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her most recent book is Losing Eden: An Environmental History of the American West (2023) and she was featured as an advisor and interviewee in a recent Ken Burns documentary film, The American Buffalo (2023). Her work focuses on environmental politics in the United States with a particular emphasis on the creation and development of consensus and bipartisanism. She has also provided expert witness research and testimony, including a precedent-setting report on Stream Navigability upheld by the Utah Supreme Court. Sara was born and raised in the West, got all of her degrees at western universities, and is proud to live in the part of the country where the air is dry and the mountains are high.
