Sabine Franklin
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Africana Studies
Born and bred New Yorker, I am an interdisciplinary scholar that examines how low-income nations govern disease outbreaks.
I completed my PhD in Economics at the University of Westminster in London, UK in 2020. The dissertation examines the local governance of 2014 Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone and Liberia. I am interested in local politics in West Africa, especially on issues of health and development. I was a recipient of the 2022-2023 AAUW postdoctoral research leave fellowship and was hosted at the Macmillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University, am currently a Fellow for the Governance and Local Development Institute at the University of Gothenburg, and a Visiting Researcher at the Westminster Development Policy Network at the University of Westminster. I am the incoming Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Wellesley College in the Africana Studies department. My latest article on the Ebola outbreak was recently published in the world-renown Journal of Institutional Economics. I am currently finishing my research project on COVID-19 emergency strategies in Sierra Leone.
My values are of a student-centered and anti-racist learning approach. This means that I am committed to an inclusive and equitable learning environment and helping students to relate to the material on hand, which can be difficult in Economics or African studies. I am an Associate Fellow of the U.K Advance HE, the professional body that oversees teaching standards at universities in the U.K and I also received my Certificate of College Teaching Preparation (CCTP) at Yale's Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, where I focused on Backwards Learning Design and anti-racist and decolonial pedagogy. I am excited to help students learn and develop their research skills and to foster an environment of belonging, expression, and empathy. I am excited to teach AFR 202: Critical Perspectives of Humanitarianism in Black countries and 270: The Politics of Race and Racism in Europe.
I am a fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health, an Associate Fellow of UK Advanced HE, a member of Women Graduates and an alumnus of the American Association of University Women and a lifetime member of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest interdisciplinary honor society.
I enjoy gardening and doing minor woodworking projects.
I tweet at @SabineFranklin and would love to connect with you at https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabinefranklin/
Teaching:
“Rhodes Must Fall”: Decolonial and Antiracist Research Methods