Sarah Federman

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After a decade as an international advertising executive working with some of the world's top brands and ad agencies, Federman wanted to better understand the role of businesses in mass atrocity. After a completing a PhD at the Carter School of Peace and Conflict Resolution within George Mason University, she wrote the award-winning book "Last Train to Auschwitz: The French National Railways and the Journey to Accountability" (University of Wisconsin 2021) and the award-winning "Transformative Negotiation: Strategies for Everyday Change and Equitable Futures" (University of California Press, 2023). She has written for the Harvard Business Review, Journal of Business Ethics, and has a forthcoming book (MIT Press 2026) along with a related TedX talk that address how corporations can atone for dark histories.

Experience

  • –present
    Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution , University of San Diego
  • 2017–2022
    Assistant Professor of Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, University of Baltimore
  • 2003–2015
    Global Brand Executive and Vice President , Telmar Information Services

Education

  • 2015 
    George Mason University: School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution , PhD Conflict Analysis and Resolution
  • 2011 
    American University of Paris , MA International Affairs
  • 1998 
    University of Pennsylvania , BA Intellectual History, Summa Cum Laude

Publications

  • 2023
    Transformative Negotiation: Strategies for Everyday Change and Equitable Futures, University of California Press
  • 2022
    Narratives of Mass Atrocity: Victims and Perpetrators in the Aftermath (with Ronald Niezen), Cambridge University Press
  • 2022
    Why Corporate Success Requires Dealing with the Past (with Judith Schrempf-Stirling), MIT/Sloan Management Review
  • 2021
    How Companies Can Address Historical Transgressions, Harvard Business Review
  • 2021
    Last Train to Auschwitz: The French National Railways and the Journey to Accountability , University of Wisconsin Press
  • 2021
    Corporate Leadership and Mass Atrocity, Journal of Business Ethics
  • 2019
    Introduction to Conflict Resolution: Discourses and Dynamics , Rowman & Littlefield

Grants and Contracts

  • 2021
    University of Maryland Women’s Forum (USMWF) Faculty Research Award
    Role:
    Awardee
    Funding Source:
    University of Maryland
  • 2021
    Fulbright: Peace and Conflict Specialist
    Role:
    Awardee
    Funding Source:
    Fulbright
  • 2017
    Amtrak Writing Residency
    Role:
    Awardee
    Funding Source:
    Amtrak
  • 2016
    Kathryn Davis Fellows for Peace
    Role:
    Awardee
    Funding Source:
    Kathryn Davis Foundation

Honours

Nautilus Book Award Winner (Silver) Journalism & Investigative Reporting for "Last Train to Auschwitz", Porchlight Best Business Book Award for Transformative Negotiation, Presidential Scholar at GMU

Contact Sarah for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision