Sarah Pollnow

Sarah Pollnow studies 20th-century transnational history concerning the United States and West Africa. Her initial research deals with U.S.-Liberia relations in the 1960s. Possible avenues of research include cultures of memorialization, and urban history in the American West. Sarah holds an Ed.M. in International Education Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a bachelor’s in History from Middlebury College. She most recently worked in Princeton as a Program Manager at the African School of Economics, where she managed education research in Nigeria. Previously, she spent a year as a Princeton in Africa Fellow at the African School of Economics’ campus in Abomey-Calavi, 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, where she worked with the Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme.