Sara Sanders

Sara Sanders is Lecturer in the Departments of History and Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies. A historian by training, her dissertation, “The Dividing Line: Myth and Experience in Mexico’s 1968 Student Movement,” examines student politics and state responses during one of the major political flashpoints in twentieth century Latin American history. Her current teaching and research focus on student politics, the Latin American left, gender studies, and women in Latin American social movements. Before coming to Grinnell, she was a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for International Gender Studies at the University of Oxford.