Sarah Bertrand

Sarah Bertrand serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam, where her work bridges historical and theoretical approaches to international relations with critical examinations of power structures.

She earned her PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and previously held an editorial position at Millennium: Journal of International Studies, demonstrating early scholarly leadership in the field.

Her research program critically investigates (post)colonial power dynamics in knowledge production, with concentrated focus on Cold War hierarchies and East German international relations scholarship. She systematically challenges Eurocentric narratives through analyses of securitization theory, temporal politics, and disciplinary diversification, exposing how marginalized perspectives are systematically excluded from mainstream international relations discourse.

Analysis of her 2018-2020 publications reveals a cohesive scholarly trajectory centered on decolonizing international relations through historical case studies of knowledge curation in non-Western contexts. Her work consistently emphasizes the material consequences of epistemic hierarchies and advocates for concrete methodological shifts to diversify the discipline's theoretical foundations.