Sarah Wagner Explained

Sarah Wagner
Alma Mater:Harvard University

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]

Early life and education

Wagner 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

Wagner 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

Wagner 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.[12]

Books

Awards and recognitions

Throughout her academic career, Wagner has received different scholarships, fellowships and grant in support of and for her work.[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.[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".

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sarah E. Wagner The Department of Anthropology The George Washington University. anthropology.columbian.gwu.edu. 2018-12-12.
  2. News: Srebrenica at 20 years: How do we study genocide?. Washington Post. en. 2018-12-12.
  3. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Sarah Wagner. en-US. 2018-12-12.
  4. Web site: Annual summary: BOARD OF TRUSTEES THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO. web.uncg.edu. 2018-12-12.
  5. Web site: Tufts Magazine / winter 2014. emerald.tufts.edu. 2018-12-12.
  6. Web site: NSF Award Search: Award#1318080 - Genetic Testing, Forensic Practice, and Changing Cultures of War Dead Commemoration. www.nsf.gov. 2018-12-12.
  7. Web site: NSF Award Search: Award#1823687 - Doctoral Dissertation Research: Humanitarian Infrastructures and Networks of Protection. www.nsf.gov. 2018-12-12.
  8. News: Through fragments of long-lost lives, lab aims to give military families a measure of peace. The Washington Post.
  9. Web site: Guest Commentary: Mladic's project thrives in Bosnia. Wagner. Lara J. Nettelfield and Sarah. stltoday.com. June 2011 . en. 2018-12-12.
  10. Web site: DNA, Mladic and the science of justice in the former Yugoslavia. Wagner. Lara J. Nettelfield and Sarah. baltimoresun.com. en-US. 2018-12-12.
  11. News: How fallen service members, and their families, became politically sacred. The Washington Post.
  12. Web site: NEH grant details: Bringing Them Home: Identifying and Remembering Vietnam War MIAs. securegrants.neh.gov. 2018-12-12.
  13. Book: To Know Where He Lies. en.
  14. Web site: Srebrenica aftermath genocide Humanitarian law. Cambridge University Press. en. 2018-12-12.
  15. Web site: Wagner, Sarah E. The Wenner-Gren Foundation. www.wennergren.org. 2018-12-12.
  16. Web site: Davis Center announces awards. 2001-06-14. Harvard Gazette. en-US. 2018-12-12.
  17. Web site: Annual Reports - Harvard University WEATHERHEAD CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS. wcfia.harvard.edu. 2018-12-12.
  18. Web site: 2014-15 ANNUAL REPORT ETHNICITY, NATIONALISM, & MIGRATION SECTION (ENMISA). www.isanet.org. 2018-12-12.
  19. Web site: 2015 Rothschild Prize Nationalities.org. nationalities.org. 2018-12-12.

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