Sarah Wagner

Sarah Wagner is a Professor of Anthropology at the George Washington University. A member of the research team, “Bones of Contention” (based at the NIOD), she is author of What Remains: Bringing America’s Missing Home from the Vietnam War (Harvard University Press 2019), winner of the 2020 Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing, and To Know Where He Lies: DNA Technology and the Search for Srebrenica’s Missing (University of California Press 2008). Her research focuses on post-conflict societies, memory, national identity, and forensic science applied in the wake of war, and, most recently, on COVID-19 death and mourning.