Sara R Farris

Sara R. Farris’s is the Chair of the Research and Enterprise Network Committee in the School of Culture and Society, and the Co-Director of Research and Co-Chair of the Anti-Racism committee in the Department of Sociology. Her work explores: the relationship between migration and gender; the contemporary financialisation and corporatisation of care homes and childcare and the ways these processes rely upon (and inform) migrant labour mobility and low-wage economies; the cultural and economic representations of migrant populations and the racialisation of sexism. She is the author of Max Weber’s theory of personality. Individuation, politics and orientalism in the sociology of religion (Brill 2013) and In the name of women’s rights. The rise of femonationalism (Duke University Press, 2017). The latter has been positively reviewed in numerous leading peer-reviewed journals, and has been translated into seven languages. She has published in a range of journals, including: Gender, Work and Organisation; Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society; Ethnic and Racial Studies, Environment and Planning F and The Sociological Review.
She is currently a member of the Editorial Board of Work, Employment and Society and serves as member of the Advisory Board of five international scientific bodies based at the LSE, Columbia University, University of Venice, University of Lausanne and University of Padua.
Sara’s research has received funding from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the European Commission (through the Marie Curie and the Daphne III programmes), the Leverhulme Trust, and the British Academy, among others. She is currently the PI of 'CorporateCARE in London. The corporatisation of care homes and childcare in the UK capital' (Goldsmiths Strategic Research Fund) and is writing a book on theories of care and social reproduction.