Sara Silverstein

Sara Silverstein is a fifth-year PhD Candidate in Modern European and International History at Yale. Her current project explores the work of transnational health professionals in the provision of services for refugees and other groups similarly marginalized by the nation-state based international order of the mid-twentieth century. This study considers the evolution of transnational health and welfare standards, their institutionalization as rights on state and international levels, and how they became the underpinnings of emerging European institutions in east and west despite Cold War divisions. Her interests in general explore the integration of Eastern Europe in pan-European histories and the interaction of politics and society, including transnational currents in social and political thought and movements, nationalism, alternatives to nationalism, the legacy of empires, pluralistic societies, the chemistry of affiliation with political parties, the social implications of political ideologies, and the history of rights (human, social, and civil).