Sarah Stanford-McIntyre

Sarah Stanford-McIntyre serves as Assistant Professor in the Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics & Society within the University of Colorado Boulder's College of Engineering and Applied Science. She co-directs the Engineering, Ethics, & Society Certificate Program.

Her research centers on:

• Environmental history of energy industries
• Social/environmental impacts of technological development
• Digital humanities methodologies
• Historical analysis of industrial deregulation

Stanford-McIntyre leads the CU Energy in Society Lab, directing projects like "Electrifying Colorado" and "Mapping Oil" that use GIS and data visualization to analyze energy development's economic, social, and environmental consequences. Her current book project examines renewable energy in the US Southwest, building on prior work including Natural Risk: An Environmental History of West Texas Oil (Columbia University Press) and the co-edited volume American Energy Cinema (West Virginia University Press). In teaching, she contextualizes technology ethics debates through historical primary sources to foster engineers' appreciation for broader societal impacts.