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 collective memory after atrocity, forced migration, human rights, military intervention, and African politics in a variety of peer-reviewed journals. Lischer received a BSFS from Georgetown University, an MPP from Harvard University, and her PhD in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her current research focuses on memory, narrative, and power following human rights atrocities.