Sarah Lischer

Sarah Lischer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Affairs at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC, USA. She is the author of Dangerous Sanctuaries: Refugee Camps, Civil War, and the Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid (Cornell University Press). She has published on the topics of public memory, forced migration, human rights, military intervention, and African politics in a variety of academic journals. Her publications relevant to life writing include “Narrating Atrocity: Genocide Memorials, Dark Tourism, and the Politics of Memory” in the Review of International Studies; “Hypotheses on Agony: Field Research in a Genocidal Context” in PS: Political Science and Politics, and “Letter from Srebrenica: The Scars of Genocide” in The American Scholar. Lischer received a BSFS from Georgetown University, an MPP from Harvard University, and her PhD in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her current research focuses on memory, narrative, and power following human rights atrocities. For further information see https://politics.wfu.edu/faculty-and-staff/sarah-lischer/