Sarah Pollnow is a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department of the University of Notre Dame. She studies 20th century history with fields in the U.S. in the world, race and racialization, and modern Africa. Her dissertation project draws on archival and oral history sources to evaluate Liberia-U.S. relations during the "long" 1960s.
Sarah holds an Ed.M. in International Education Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a B.A. in History from Middlebury College. She most recently worked in Princeton, New Jersey as a Program Manager at the African School of Economics. Prior to that, she spent a year as a Princeton in Africa Fellow at the African School of Economics’ campus in Benin. Sarah was a certified public school teacher in Vermont and has teaching experience in Germany, where she was a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, and in Japan.