Speakers
- Sarah DeMott
- Harvard University, Research Librarian
Sarah DeMott (Ph.D., New York University) is a Research Librarian specializing in Middle East Studies at Harvard University. DeMott’s scholarship draws on connections across the Arab world from North Africa to Indo China. Her current manuscript project, Tropical by Design: French Empire and Afro-Asian Circulations across the Tropical World, c. 1880-1980, mines colonial archives of Tunisia, Algeria, and Vietnam to understand the relationships between empire, technology and the environment. Her research interests focus on defamiliarizing cartographies of power through networks of gender, migration, and mobility.