Sara Friedman

Faculty

Assistant Professor

Location Ross 3280A
Office Hours Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30-4:30 or by appointment
Sarah Friedman

Education

  • BA, University of Chicago, 2009
  • MA: Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, 2011
  • MA: University of Vienna, 2013
  • PhD: University of California Berkeley, 2023

Professional Experience & Affiliations

  • Assistant Professor, University of Northern 黑料社区, 2026-present
  • Lecturer, History, University of California Berkeley, 2024-2025
  • Faculty, Mount Tamalpais College, 2023-2024
  • Visiting Scholar, History, University of California Berkeley, 2023-2024

 

Research Expertise & Interests

  • Modern Central European History; film studies; LGBTQ+ history; animal studies; urban history

Publications

“Virtua Witnessing: Weimar Cinema’s pre-Weimar Roots in Anders als die Andern [Different from the others],聽1919″ in Weimar’s Queer Visual Cultures,聽University of Toronto Press, 2026 (book chapter)

“After Weimar, Beyond Hirschfeld? Nostalgia, Hagiography, and What Comes Next,”聽German History,聽July 2025 (forum)

“Afterlives of聽Ander als die Andern聽and of Weimar,” Central European History,聽September 2024 (article)

“Universal Language with a German Accent,” German Studies Review, May 2021 (article)

Honors & Awards

2025-2026 Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies Max Kade Postdoctoral Fellowship

2023-2024 Berkeley Connect Senior Fellow, University of California Berkeley

2023 Central European History Society Research Grant

2021-2022 Erasmus+, Freie Universit盲t Berlin

2020-2021 Stipendium der Studienstifitung des Abgeordnetenhauses von Berlin (Study Foundation of the Berlin House of Representatives)

2020 Philip Brett LGBT Studies Fellowship, University of California Berkeley

2019 Institute for European Studies Gerald D. and Norma Feldman Graduate Student Dissertation Fellowship, University of California Berkeley

2016-2023 Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship for Graduate Study, University of California Berkeley