Research
As an MA student, Sara is interested in race, slavery, and servitude in the early-modern Caribbean. She is particularly interested in Irish indentured servants living in seventeenth-century Barbados. Her current research is dedicated to is understanding how the denigration of Irish women by Irish men climbing the Caribbean social hierarchy contributed to identity formation among Irish and Black women.
Her larger project will explore how the Irish navigate multifaceted identities - especially their racialized and gendered nature - and aims to uncover broader notions of self and self-identity among Irish people living in the seventeenth-century Caribbean.
Education
B.A., St. Olaf College, History and Sociology/Anthropology