Sarah Hardin
Lecturer

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Office: Tyler Annex 204

Phone: 585-3015

I am a doctoral candidate in African history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where I received my M.A.  My dissertation, titled "Developing the Periphery," examines the political-economy of agricultural development in Senegal (West Africa) in the twentieth century, particularly the impacts of DDT and other pesticides used in cotton cultivation on public health and on social relations.  I write to contribute to political, economic, and social history as well as to development studies. 

My interest in cultural encounters and environmental challenges began in high school when I volunteered for the US Forest Service in Arkansas and for Amigos de las Americas, a Houston-based NGO, in an Andean village in Ecuador.  I have also traveled to Mexico, South Korea, France, and Senegal.  At the University of Texas at Austin, where I received my B.A., I majored in history and anthropology and minored in Spanish.  My experience working with students includes teaching at UW-Madison and tutoring and advising in Austin and at Rice University.  I have advised international and American college students on matters ranging from immigration to applying to the Fulbright-IIE program, the grant which funded my dissertation research in Senegal.