Sarah J. Grünendahl

Sarah J. Grünendahl is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Siegen, Germany, and is a visiting Research Fellow with both Centre for Global Studies and Borders in Globalization. In her PhD dissertation, she studies the political activism that occurs around the migration of (former) U.S. American war resisters to Canada.

Devised as an exploratory empirical project, Sarah interviewed U.S. American soldiers of the Vietnam and Afghanistan/Iraq Wars, as well as Canadian activists who lobby on the latter group’s behalf. The case study serves as a lens through which to analyze (changing) concepts of national and cultural identity as well as Canada-U.S. relations.

Sarah graduated from the University of Bonn, Germany, where she studied North American Studies, Political Science and Cultural Anthropology. Her Master’s thesis dealt with the civic engagement of U.S. Americans in times of war.

Sarah’s research interests include migration studies, (hybrid) identities, transnational social spaces and civic engagement.