1. Sarah Kendzior was born on September 1,1978 and is an American author, anthropologist, researcher, and scholar.
16 Facts About Sarah Kendzior
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Sarah Kendzior's thesis was State Propaganda on Islam in Independent Uzbekistan.
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In 2012, Sarah Kendzior earned a Doctor of Philosophy in anthropology from Washington University in St Louis.
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Sarah Kendzior's dissertation was The Uzbek Opposition in Exile: Diaspora and Dissident Politics in the Digital Age, and her advisor was John Bowen.
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Sarah Kendzior's focus of study was former Soviet Union totalitarian states.
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Sarah Kendzior's dissertation was on how dissidents from Uzbekistan used the internet to challenge an authoritarian government in a climate of surveillance and distrust.
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From 2000 to 2003, Sarah Kendzior worked as an online news editor and writer for the New York Daily News.
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From 2012 to 2014, Sarah Kendzior was a columnist for Al Jazeera,.
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From 2016 to 2020, Sarah Kendzior was a columnist for The Globe and Mail.
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Sarah Kendzior has written for The Guardian, Foreign Policy, Marie Claire, and other outlets.
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Some of Sarah Kendzior's journalism has focused locally on St Louis.
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Sarah Kendzior has frequently appeared on MSNBC on the AM Joy show hosted by Joy Reid.
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Sarah Kendzior was a featured speaker for the Canadian Journalism Foundation's annual Ottawa J-Talk on April 9,2019.
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Together with Andrea Chalupa, Sarah Kendzior co-hosted a podcast, Gaslit Nation, which originated as part of Dame magazine.
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In October 2023, Sarah Kendzior announced she would no longer appear on the podcast.
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In 2016, Sarah Kendzior wrote about similarities between Donald Trump and the authoritarian leaders she had studied given Trump's admiration for Russian president Vladimir Putin before there was widespread public awareness of Russia's interference in the US election.