Sarah G. Grant

bio

I am a biracial, transracial adoptee and first generation faculty of color. I care very deeply about adoptee experiences, Indigenous rights, and social/environmental justice; I am a critically engaged teacher-scholar. My journey through higher education cuts across several large, albeit very different state university systems. I earned my B.A. in History and Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh, M.A. in Southeast Asian Studies from the University of Wisconsin, and Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Riverside and I am a product of a public secondary schools. Prior to joining the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at CSUF, I taught at a small liberal arts college in Arkansas. I enjoy cafes and equitable specialty coffee culture, birdwatching, and exploring the Los Angeles River by bike and foot (Instagram: @lbcbirdsofthelariver). My co-species is a rescue named Wilbur T. Wonderdog (Instagram @wilbur.t.wonderdog).

Research interests

critical coffee studies; commodities and consumption; bureaucracy and political anthropology; visual culture; environment; multispecies ethnography; birds and birding; Indigenous STS; interdisciplinary collaboration; transracial adoption; critical pedagogy; community science; Southeast Asia; Vietnam; California