Sarah E. Wagner is an American professor of anthropology at the George Washington University's Columbian College of Arts and Sciences and a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow. Wagner is especially recognized for her research and work on genocides.[1][2]
Sarah Wagner | |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
Early life and education
editWagner graduated with a B.A. from Dartmouth College in 1994 and obtained an M.A.L.D. from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in 2002. In 2006, she received a Ph.D. from Harvard University.[3]
Career
editWagner started her career at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she taught for five years.[4] Subsequently she came to the George Washington University.
Wagner works both in America, as well as "in the field" in different countries around the world and also supervises work around the world.[5][6][7]
Wagner is frequently interviewed about her work in different publications and writes articles, blogs and columns herself.[8][9][10][11]
Works
editWagner has (co-) published two books and various articles and book chapters. She is currently working on her third publication, for which she was awarded two scholarships.[3][12]
Books
editAwards and recognitions
editThroughout her academic career, Wagner has received different scholarships, fellowships and grant in support of and for her work.[3][15]
In 2001, Wagner received the Fainsod Prize or top incoming graduate students at Harvard University and in 2005, received a fellowship to complete her dissertation "The Return of Identity: Technology, Memory, and the Identification of the Missing from the July 1995 Massacre in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina".[16][17]
In 2015, Wagner's second book (Srebenica in the Aftermath of Genocide) received an Honorable Mention for the International Studies Association’s Ethnicity, Migration and Nationalism Distinguished Book Award. The book was also listed for the Rothschild Prize of the Association for the Study of Nationalities in the same year.[3][18][19]
In 2017, Wagner received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Public Scholar award by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to finish her third book "Bringing Them Home: Identifying and remembering Vietnam War MIAs".[3][12]
References
edit- ^ "Sarah E. Wagner | The Department of Anthropology | The George Washington University". anthropology.columbian.gwu.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-12.
- ^ "Srebrenica at 20 years: How do we study genocide?". Washington Post. Retrieved 2018-12-12.
- ^ a b c d e "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Sarah Wagner". Retrieved 2018-12-12.
- ^ "Annual summary: BOARD OF TRUSTEES THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO" (PDF). web.uncg.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-12.
- ^ "Tufts Magazine / winter 2014". emerald.tufts.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-12.
- ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#1318080 - Genetic Testing, Forensic Practice, and Changing Cultures of War Dead Commemoration". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2018-12-12.
- ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#1823687 - Doctoral Dissertation Research: Humanitarian Infrastructures and Networks of Protection". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2018-12-12.
- ^ "Through fragments of long-lost lives, lab aims to give military families a measure of peace". The Washington Post.
- ^ Wagner, Lara J. Nettelfield and Sarah (June 2011). "Guest Commentary: Mladic's project thrives in Bosnia". stltoday.com. Retrieved 2018-12-12.
- ^ Wagner, Lara J. Nettelfield and Sarah. "DNA, Mladic and the science of justice in the former Yugoslavia". baltimoresun.com. Retrieved 2018-12-12.
- ^ "How fallen service members, and their families, became politically sacred". The Washington Post.
- ^ a b "NEH grant details: Bringing Them Home: Identifying and Remembering Vietnam War MIAs". securegrants.neh.gov. Retrieved 2018-12-12.
- ^ To Know Where He Lies.
- ^ "Srebrenica aftermath genocide | Humanitarian law". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 2018-12-12.
- ^ "Wagner, Sarah E. | The Wenner-Gren Foundation". www.wennergren.org. Retrieved 2018-12-12.
- ^ "Davis Center announces awards". Harvard Gazette. 2001-06-14. Retrieved 2018-12-12.
- ^ "Annual Reports - Harvard University WEATHERHEAD CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS" (PDF). wcfia.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-12.
- ^ "2014-15 ANNUAL REPORT ETHNICITY, NATIONALISM, & MIGRATION SECTION (ENMISA)" (PDF). www.isanet.org. Retrieved 2018-12-12.
- ^ "2015 Rothschild Prize | Nationalities.org". nationalities.org. Retrieved 2018-12-12.