Sarah Mass

Sarah Mass joined the Department of History as Assistant Professor of Britain and the World in 2023.  Prior to her appointment, she taught at Sam Houston State University, where she was an Assistant Professor of British History from 2019-2023, and was previously a Lecturer-in-Discipline at Columbia University. Her work joins the fields of urban history, the history of economic life, and the history of multiculturalism in modern Britain. Her 2019 article “Cost-Benefit Break Down: Unplannable Spaces in 1970s Glasgow,” published in the Urban History Journal, was awarded the Dyos Prize for the best article submitted to the journal in that calendar year. Her book in progress, Retail Citizenship: Market, State, and the Right to Sell in Modern Britain, traces “how and why ordinary town and city-center retail institutions—such as open-air markets, ethnic-minority shopkeepers, and itinerant vendors—helped define the boundaries of ‘the local’ in a globalizing economy.” Mass received her PhD from the University of Michigan.