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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.
Geography
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.