Faculty at Home: Sarah Stroup

Please join Sarah Stroup, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation, for a talk entitled “Foreign Aid under Fire.”

The Trump administration has worked to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development. As a scholar of humanitarian relief and NGOs, Stroup puts this political moment in historical and comparative perspective. Foreign aid has long been contested in the United States. Meanwhile, other Western states are cutting their aid budgets as a group of global aid donors emerge. These shifting dynamics may impede short-term humanitarian relief as well as long-term efforts to address poverty and global inequality.

Sarah Stroup is professor of political science at Middlebury and director of the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation. Her current research projects explore inequality in the humanitarian sector and the intersection of international and domestic peacebuilding efforts. As a practitioner, Stroup is trained in reflective structured dialogue, basic mediation, and basic restorative practices. She is author of Borders Among Activists (Cornell, 2012) and coauthor of The Authority Trap (Cornell, 2017), winner of the 2019 ARNOVA Outstanding Book Award. 

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