Sarah Balakrishnan: President's Postdoctoral Fellow

Sarah Balakrishnan (she/her/hers) is a 2021–22 President's Postdoctoral Fellow.

Department
History

President's Postdoctoral Fellow Program Mentor
Katherine Gerbner

Undergraduate Institution
McGill University

Doctoral Institution
Harvard University

Dissertation Title
Anticolonial Public: From Slavery to Independence in Southern Ghana, c. 1500-1957

Research Interests
I study the imperial encounter in southern Ghana (Gold Coast Colony) through changes to land, space, and political imagination. These spaces include enclosures, fences, prisons, cemeteries, roadways, and other kinds of public spaces. I show how these areas became loci for political power during colonial rule, developing new indigenous anticolonial practices.