Sara Conrad

Biography

Sara Marie Conrad received her PhD in the departments of Anthropology and The Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University. For her dissertation, entitled Momo, Motherhood, and The 7 Train: Exiled Tibetan Women in New York City, She spent a total of twelve months between 2014 and 2018 collecting demographic data, birth stories, and dumpling recipes from over 100 Tibetan women in New York City. Her research shifted the Tibetan exile narrative centered on religious exiles to now include Tibetan women as transnational actors who use work, oral histories, religion, school, and food, as ways of maintaining their culture. She is interested in reproduction and motherhood, Tibet and Tibetan communities, religion, and transnational communities.

Because of her multidisciplinary background, her teaching interests include: Anthropology, Sociology, Human Biology, Philosophy, Central Eurasian Studies, Biology, and Area Studies.

Dr. Conrad is currently working with the Tibetan communities in the midwest to broaden her multi-sited research