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Sarah Green

Sarah Green

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Early Life & Education

Sarah Green was born on March 9, 1961 in Redgrave, in Suffolk, England. . Green lived with her family in Greece for ten years of her childhood (ages 2-12). They lived on the island of Lesbos, for about five years, before moving to Athens, Greece in order to access better educational opportunities. Following this period, her family returned to their native England in 1974. She graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1985 with a degree in Archaeology and Anthropology, and received her PhD in Social Anthropology from the same institution in 1992.

Professional Career

Dr. Sarah Green began her professional career in Anthropology as a Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College in 1992. She maintained this position through 1995 while becoming an affiliated lecturer of Social and Political Sciences in 1993 and Social Anthropology in 1994 at Cambridge University. In 1995 she accepted a position as a lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester and in 1997 published her first book, Urban Amazons: Lesbian Feminism and Beyond in the Gender, Sexuality and Identity Battles of London. In 2000 she was named a senior lecturer at the university and in 2005 published her second book, Notes From the Balkans: Locating marginality and ambiguity on the Greek-Albanian border. In 2006 she was named Professor of Social Anthropology and held this position through 2010.

In 2011, she was invited to become the Executive Program Chair for the AAA’s annual international conference, involving over 6,500 participants in Montréal. For the conference she was responsible for picking a theme. Her theme,”Traces, Tidemarks and Legacies,” is similar to the new book series she is about to launch titled “Rethinking Borders.”

Dr. Green is currently the Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Helsinki. She received this appointment on August 1, 2012. At this time she is currently releasing a new book. Her book titled Borderwork is a summary of her latest works is focused on the Aegean region (the sea between Greece and Turkey) and involves animals that are involved in transnational chains of relations.

Publications

Sarah Green has published extensively, writing books, journal articles, and book contributions, among others. A more complete list of publications is available here: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/sarah.green/publications

Books:
Green, S F. Notes From the Balkans: Locating marginality and ambiguity on the Greek-Albanian border. Princeton University Press, 2005.
Green, S F. Urban Amazons: Lesbian Feminism and Beyond in the Gender, Sexuality and Identity Battles of London. Macmillan, 1997.

Current Research Interests

Currently Sarah Green is involved in a number of ongoing research projects that involve studying borders in Eastern Europe, EastBordNet is one of these ventures. Green is the Chair of this international research project that explores everything from money to gender, sexuality, and a sense of belonging and how those things are related to the ever-changing European borders. Specialists who are involved with EastBordNet explore borders in the present as well as in the past and are continuing to learn more about how borders affect the people in those counties. Currently the project involves roughly 250 different scholars and 27 countries

Green is also exploring borders in a new way through her research project “Knots.” Through this project she is looking primarily at the Aegean region and the way that “animals are involved in transnational chains of relations”. Furthermore, Green recently published a non-academic book with photographer Lena Malm called Border work.