Dr. Sarah Earnshaw

Sarah Earnshaw received her doctorate in American Culture and History from LMU Munich in 2019, funded by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. She published her first monograph, Human Rights and Sovereign Standards in US Security: “Freedom Will Be Defended”, with Routledge in 2025 as part of the Advances in American History series. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California Berkeley, in association with the German Historical Institute Pacific Regional Office and the Zolberg Institute, Sarah joined the research training Group ‘Practicing Place’ in May 2021. Hailing from the Bonnie Banks, she began her academic journey at the University of Glasgow with an MA in History and Literature and an MLitt in War Studies.

Back in Bavaria, Sarah is working on her second book project, ‘Knowing Your Place: Placing Class Struggle Across Precarity in US Labour Landscapes’. Embracing a feminist, autonomist Marxist perspective, alongside her work in political theory, her research interests revolve around spatial composition and labour mobilisation, class conflict, practices of freedom and autonomy, and critical security. Her recent publications include a chapter in Herausforderung Solidarität (2024) on the documentary films Made in L.A. and Live Nude Girls Unite! as well as an article for Lateral (2024) where she poses the incubator – as physical worksite, metaphor of innovation, and social reproductive technology – to think together, while holding distinct, compositional dynamics in tech work and online sex work.