Sarah Milov

Professor Milov is a historian of the twentieth century United States. Her work focuses on how organized interest groups and everyday Americans influence work, law and political culture. She is currently working on a political biography of Karen Silkwood, a nuclear whistleblower who died under suspicious circumstances in 1974. Her first book, The Cigarette: A Political History is a history of tobacco in the twentieth century that places farmers, government officials, and citizen-activists at the center of the story. Milov also served as a Co-Director of the UVA Repair Lab, which sought to address the urgent challenges of racial injustice and climate change by bridging social and environmental issues.

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