Sarah Barr
Study Abroad Advisor
Email: sbarr2@unl.edu

Sarah caught the bug for International Education as a little girl growing up on farm in Nebraska listening to her mother's stories of Ecuador and her uncle's stories of Ghana. During her junior year at Nebraska Wesleyan University, she went on to study abroad in Trier, Germany, as an ISEP exchange student in 1991-92. Thanks to a Eurail pass and a long semester break, she was able to see much of Europe—from Paris to Prague and London to Rome, as well as much of Germany.

In August 2001 after completing her Masters in German and a Masters of Fine Arts in Literary Translation at the University of Arkansas, Sarah moved to Cairo, Egypt to teach in the Writing Program at The American University in Cairo. Her sojourn to Egypt lasted for two years. Additional international and intercultural experience includes teaching German and working with immigrants and refugees who had survived torture and then begun a new life Lincoln, Nebraska.

Sarah has seen the sun set from the peak of Mount Sinai, parasailed on the Red Sea; wandered pedestrian zones throughout Europe; toured amphitheaters in Rome, Italy, and El-Jem, Tunisia; sailed on the Nile and the Mississippi; camped in Egypt's Western Desert and at Indian Cave, Nebraska; as well as gone horseback riding at Niobrara State Park and next to the Giza Pyramids. Sarah is excited to join the Office of International Affairs to help UNL students interested in studying abroad and exchange students coming to UNL.