Sabine Hirschauer is an associate professor of international relations and security studies in the Department of Political Science, Public Law and Administration. She is also the current M. Eugene Sundt Professor and a McNair Scholars Program mentor for the NMSU Honors College. She has been at NMSU since August 2016.
Hirschauer’s research and student mentoring interests include critical security studies, mnemonical security, ontological state insecurity, migration, identity politics and gender. Before joining NMSU, she was a post-doctoral research fellow with the Department of Trauma, Forgiveness and Reconciliation Studies at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Hirschauer is a native of Munich, Germany.
Since 2017, Hirschauer has taken students to Germany for a Migration and Integration Service-Learning Study Abroad. She said she enjoys bringing abstract, political concepts such as peace research, security studies and democracy closer to students.
“The study abroad uniquely allowed our students to engage with refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and Ukraine, for example,” Hirschauer said. “Experiential and service-learning programs are wonderful opportunities to connect our students with some of these complex, political realities.”
She said the Sundt professorship will help her expand a traditional, political science and international relations curriculum for students, and explore how democratic values and practices are embedded in everyday lives and histories.