Dr. Sarah Marusek is a native New Yorker who writes about the intersection of culture and society through a decolonial lens.
Dr. Sarah Marusek graduated with a BA in Art History and Literature from Goldsmiths, University of London, and subsequently helped to launch a luxury photographic art imprint with the publishers of Dazed and Confused magazine in London. She then migrated to New York City to start SMPR, a boutique agency working with music and arts photographers, galleries, and publishers.
Losing faith over her country’s response to the attack on 9/11, Marusek then pursued an MA in International Affairs from the New School and a PhD in Social Science from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. She spent more than two and a half years in Lebanon researching Islamic activism, and has also conducted field research in New York, South Africa, Iran, and Senegal.
Marusek now writes about the intersection of culture and society, particularly focusing on decolonizing the arts for the benefit of all humanity. She is the author of the book Faith and Resistance: The Politics of Love and War in Lebanon (London: Pluto Press, 2018). She has also done significant work as a freelance researcher and editor for Public Interest Investigations – Spinwatch, co-authoring a series of reports on the overlapping funders of right-wing Zionism and Islamophobia.
Dr. Sarah Marusek 