Sarah H. Kelly

|Lecturer
Academic Appointments

  • Lecturer and Research Associate in Geography

  • Program Manager of the Energy Justice Clinic, Irving Institute of Energy & Society

  • Associate Researcher, Andes Lab Sur, Universidad Austral de Chile

Sarah Kelly is a geographer with fifteen years of experience in community-based research on water and energy equity. As an applied researcher, she was trained in the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Sarah holds long-term research relationships with Mapuche-Williche communities in Chile, where she has investigated hydropower, cultural cartography, and Indigenous rights. In 2021, she co-founded the Energy Justice Clinic at Dartmouth College. Originally from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Sarah is excited to expand upon local collaborations in New Hampshire and Vermont to support making the energy transition more just and accessible for all. Sarah's research is published in Energy Policy, Energy Research and Social Science, and Geoforum, among other journals. 

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Contact

Sarah.H.Kelly@dartmouth.edu
Irving Institute, Room IR-354
HB 6017

Department(s)

Geography

Education

  • BA Colby College
  • MA University of Arizona
  • PhD University of Arizona

Selected Publications

  • Kelly, S., Guerra-Schleef, F., Solli Heiret, Y., Lorini Formiga, N., Fajardo Mazorra, A.,   Acosta-Rodríguez, S. & Greenleaf, M. (2024). Epistemological justice as energy justice: Reflections from a transnational collaboration on hydropower and indigenous rights. Climate and Development. 

    Kelly, S. (2024). Protecting a Sacred River: Transnational Appeals for Energy Justice and Indigenous Rights Recognition. Law and Space Journal. https://lawandspace.com/protecting-a-sacred-river/

    Greenleaf, M., Kelly, S., Cole, R., Griffin, J., Kreis, D., Salas, A. & Wuu, S. (2023). Tool for a Just Transition? Community Choice Aggregation and Energy Justice in New Hampshire and Beyond. Submitted to Energy Research and Social Science.

    Negroni, J. M. V., Kelly, S., & Fuster, R. (2022). ¿ Escasez de agua o transición a energías renovables?  Mercado de derechos de aprovechamiento no consuntivo de aguas bajo el Nexo Agua y Energía  en la geografía del sur de Chile. Investigaciones Geográficas, (63), 4-23. 

    Ptak, T., Crootof, A., Harlan, T., & Kelly, S. (2022). Critically evaluating the purported global "boom" in  small hydropower development through spatial and temporal analysis. Renewable and  Sustainable Energy Reviews, 163, 112490. 

    Kelly, S. H. (2021). Mapping hydropower conflicts: A legal geography of dispossession in Mapuche Williche Territory, Chile. Geoforum, 127, 269-282. 

    Kelly, S., Guerra-Schleef, F., and Valdes-Negroni, J.M. (2021). Negociando consentimiento y derechos  indígenas: Geografías legales de fragmentación en territorio Mapuche-Williche, Wallmapu,  Chile. Journal of Latin American Geography. 20(2), 67-102. 

    Carraro, V., Kelly, S., Valdés-Negroni, J.M., Melillanca, P, and Vargas, J.L. (2021). Undoing disaster  colonialism: A pilot map of the pandemic's first wave in the Mapuche territories. Disaster  Prevention and Management. 

    Tironi, M., Campos-Knothe, K., Acuña, V., Isola, E., Bonelli, C., Galvez, M. G., Kelly, S. ... & Valdivieso, S. (2021). Interruptions: imagining an analytical otherwise for disaster studies in Latin  America. Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal. 

    Kelly, S. and Valdés Negroni, J.M. (2020). Tracing Institutional Surprises in the Water-Energy Nexus:  Stalled Projects of Chile's Small Hydropower Boom. Environment and Planning E: Nature and  Society. doi.org/10.1177/2514848620945936 

    Kelly, S. (2019). Megawatts mask impacts: Small hydropower and knowledge politics in the  Puelwillimapu, Southern Chile. Energy Research & Social Science, 54, 224-235. 

    Gutierrez, G. M., Kelly, S., Cousins, J. J., & Sneddon, C. (2019). What Makes a Megaproject?: A Review of  Global Hydropower Assemblages. Environment and Society, 10(1), 101-121. 

    Tironi, M., Bacigalupe, G., Knowles, S. G., Dickinson, S., Gil, M., Kelly, S., ... & Siddiqi, A. (2019). Figuring  disasters, an experiment on thinking disruptions as methods, Resilience: International Policies,  Practices, and Discourses, 7(2), 192-211. 

    Kelly, S. (2018). Articulating indigenous rights amidst territorial fragmentation: Small hydropower  conflicts in the Puelwillimapu, southern Chile (Doctoral dissertation, The University of Arizona).

    Kelly, S., Silber-Coats, N., Crootof, A., Tecklin D., & Bauer, C. (2017). Governing the transition to  renewable energy: A review of impacts and policy issues in the small hydropower boom. Energy  Policy 101, 251-264. 

    Kelly, S., & Banister, J. M. (2017). A state of suspended animation: Urban sanitation and water access in  Nogales, Sonora. Political Geography, 58, 104-113. 

    Radonic, L. & Kelly S. (2015). Pipes and praxis: An applied methodological contribution to the urban  political ecology of water. Journal of Political Ecology, 22, 389-409. 

    Moore, S., Wilson, J., Kelly, S., & Marston, S. (2015). School gardens as sites for forging progressive  socio-ecological futures. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 105(2), 407-415. 

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