Sara Karn

Sara Karn is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at McMaster University. She conducts research for the SSHRC Partnership project Thinking Historically for Canada’s Future. Sara received her PhD from Queen’s University in 2023, and her research focuses on empathy and emotion in history education. Her research, publishing, and teaching spans the fields of history and social studies education, experiential learning, and environmental and climate change education. Sara’s research has been published in The Social Studies, the History Education Research Journal, Historical Encounters, Rethinking History, the Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, and the Canadian Journal of Education. She is also a certified K-12 teacher in Ontario and has taught social studies education and environmental education at the postsecondary level.