Sarah Baumgartner

About the Author

Sarah Baumgartner is a historian whose work examines the evolving relationships between human societies and the natural world during the long eighteenth century. Drawing on extensive archival research, she explores how scientific inquiry, territorial expansion, and cultural exchange shaped early modern understandings of nature. Her scholarship bridges environmental history and the history of science, illuminating the ways in which people mapped, classified, and connected with their surroundings. Baumgartner’s writing is both rigorous and accessible, offering fresh perspectives on the emergence of natural history as a discipline.