Dr. Sarah Earnshaw

Sarah Earnshaw is a junior faculty member at Practicing Place based in American Studies and Cultural Studies. She received her PhD from LMU in 2019 which was the basis of her first book, Human Rights and Sovereign Standards in US Security: “Freedom Will Be Defended”, published with Routledge in 2025. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, Sarah joined the training group in 2021. Originally from the Bonnie Banks, Sarah started her interdisciplinary academic journey at the University of Glasgow, studying History and English Literature (MA) and War Studies (MLitt). Her research focuses on spatial compositions of class conflict, labour mobilisation, political theory, and critical security, and she is currently writing her second book, Knowing Your Place: Placing Class Struggles Across Precarity in US Labour Landscapes. Her recent publications include the article ‘The Incubator and the Interregnum’ with Lateral (2024), chapter ‘Solidarity in Sweatshops and Sex Work’ in Herausforderung Solidarität (2024), and the edited volume Cultural Practices of Place: A Sense of Placing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025).