Sarah Wildman writes on the intersection of culture and politics, history and memory in Europe and America. She is the
recipient of the 2010 Peter R. Weitz Prize from the German Marshall Fund for excellence in reporting on Europe. Over the last decade, she has lived and reported from Paris, Vienna, Madrid, Washington, Jerusalem and Berlin. She is a regular contributor to the New York Times and the Guardian. Her work can be found at
www.sarahwildman.com.
Wildman has received numerous fellowships that have bolstered her work on Muslim integration in the West, Muslim-Jewish relations in Europe, trans-Atlantic relationships, Holocaust studies and her search for where history and modernity meet, here and abroad - including an Arthur F. Burns Fellowship in Berlin, an American Council on Germany Fellowship, a Milena Jesenska Fellowship in Vienna, Austria (the first North American to receive this honor), and a Pew Fellowship in International Journalism (now called the International Reporting Project) at Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies based in Paris. Work in America has focused on our culture wars and how we export them.
Wildman has also been on staff at the New Republic magazine and a senior correspondent at the American Prospect. Her stories have appeared in Slate, the Washington Post, the Advocate, the Forward, the Christian Science Monitor, New York, Elle, Marie Claire, Oprah, Real Simple, Glamour, Travel and Leisure and the Jerusalem Report, among others. She has made numerous television and radio appearances and has lectured both in the United States and abroad. Sarah graduated from Wesleyan University Phi Beta Kappa with high honors in History.