Sara is an interdisciplinary sociologist whose work focuses on epistemic justice and alternative knowledge creation through cultural difference. She engages in education as a praxis for freedom.

Sara did her doctorate at the University of Sussex on fostering criticality in international higher education through radical subjectivity. Her teaching and research draws heavily on theories of de/coloniality, the Black radical tradition, and critical pedagogies.

Her current projects focus on decolonial modes of knowledge creation to understand and imagine the world. Her first project focuses on decolonising and connecting transnational histories of the Internationale (1920s-1960s) by centring the life of anarchist, pan-African Angolan militant, Inocêncio da Câmara Pires. Her second project is a co-edited book with Nyasha Mandivenga on Decolonial Education and Youth Aspiration that argues for decolonial education as understanding rights in education and creating alternative futures.

Before King's, Sara was at LSE for eight years, teaching courses on racial capitalism and leadership and social change. While at LSE, Sara researched Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic attainment gaps to develop the first draft of the School’s Inclusive Education Action Plan. She also developed LSE’s Academic Mentoring Portal.

Sara has 17 years of experience teaching at universities in the UK, Kazakhstan, Poland, Qatar, and Turkey.

Research interests and PhD supervision

• Racial capitalism
• De/colonial higher education
• Critical pedagogy
• Race, ethnicity, and nationalism
• Epistemic justice

Teaching

Sara draws on the work of bell hooks, Audre Lorde, and Paulo Freire to inform her pedagogic practice. She teaches on global cultures, using the work Black Radical Scholars and critical theories to understand the links between bodies, culture, knowledge formation, and power.