Graduate Alumnus Research Research Areas: Latin America & Caribbean Transnational U.S. South Race and Slavery Research Interests: 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. Degree Completion Date: Fri, 12/10/2021 - 12:00pm Education Education: B.A., St. Olaf College, History and Sociology/Anthropology
