Sara McKinnon
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Expert on US refugee and asylum law, immigration, gender and sexuality violence, women's and LGBT human rights, human migration in South and Central America.
Professor, communication arts; faculty director, Latin American, Caribbean & Iberian Studies College of Letters and Science International Division Work: 608-262-2417 — Home and cell phones available upon request smckinnon@wisc.edu Home page Twitter: @saralmckinnon
Topics
- Migration
- Refugees
- Gender violence
- Human Rights
- LGBT Human Rights
Achievements
- Gendered Asylum: Race and Violence in U.S. Law and Politics.. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016.
- Grant Awardee , Wisconsin Partnership Program, UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, 2014 & 2016.
- Awardee. Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2019.
- Awardee, Bonnie Ritter Book Award. Feminist and Women’s Studies Division of the National Communication Association. 2017.
- Grant Awardee, "Safe Passage from the Darién Gap," Research Forward Grant from OVCRGE and Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.