Sarah Brooks is a Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University (Ph.D., Duke University) in the Department of Political Science.  In the field of international political economy, her research examines the political economy of sovereign risk and global capital flows, most recently focusing on the interaction between investor behavior and government actors in sovereign debt markets. Other recent projects include a series of analyses of the "resource curse," which challenge conventional views of the political and economic effects of natural resource wealth. Her newest extension of this research examines the role of critical minerals and the politics of their development in the green transition. She also has a series of papers on the political effects of risk and insecurity on democratic citizenship in South Africa.