Sara Awartani
Dr. Sara Awartani is an Assistant Professor in the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Before joining Michigan, she was a Global American Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University's Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History and a Lecturer on Harvard’s Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights.
An interdisciplinary U.S. social movement historian, her research, publications, and teaching interrogate twentieth century Latinx and Arab American radicalisms, interracial solidarities, policing, and histories of the United States in the world. Her research has appeared in a variety of peer-reviewed and public-facing forums, including Radical History Review, Kalfou: A Comparative Ethnic Studies Journal, Society & Space, Middle East Report, and Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies: A Reader, and has received support across subfields, including the Puerto Rican Studies Association and the Arab American National Museum, with additional recognition by the Ford Foundation and the Latin American Studies Association.
Dr. Awartani received her Ph.D. in American Studies from George Washington University in 2020, and she is a proud alumna of the University of Florida, where she graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in History. As the sign greeting students in her office at the University of Michigan reads, "I'm actually a Florida Gator fan."