Description: Sarah Balakrishnan is a historian of West Africa, based at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She writes about prisons, policing, colonial statecraft, and anticolonial movements.
Sarah Balakrishnan is a historian of Africa and a prize-winning fiction writer. Her academic work focuses on the imperial encounter in southern Ghana from the 15th through 20th centuries. Her literary writing is about human relationships, racial tensions, and power.
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Sarah is an Assistant Professor of History at Duke University. She has held a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia. She has also received research fellowships from the Social Science Research Council , the Social Science & Humanities Research Council , the Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory , the Philanthropic Education Organization , and the Weatherhead