Sarah Stanford-McIntyre is an assistant professor in the Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics & Society at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her book project, Natural Risk, which tracks how oil employees in West Texas understood industry risk and helped shape Texas regulatory politics, is under contract with Columbia University Press. She is co-editor of American Energy Cinema, on the role of the energy industry in American film, forthcoming in 2023 from West Virginia University Press. She has published articles on wind energy, the labor of geophysical modeling, and Texas energy policy.