Sandra Polak

University Lecturer at Leiden University Centre

Sara Polak is a university lecturer in American Studies and media studies at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

She focuses on the intersection of play, memory, media and politics and is principal investigator of the ERC project “Worlding America: How Play Shaped the United States between New Media and New Politics.” Her first book is titled FDR in American Memory: Roosevelt and the Making of an Icon (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021) and she is currently completing a book provisionally titled Magnetic Maneuvers: How Trump Pioneered New Tactics in Political Play.