# Sarah Halford Harvard College Fellow ![Sarah Halford](/sites/g/files/omnuum1481/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/2024-08/Halford%20Sarah.jpg?itok=36srq9wa) location\_on William James Hall33 Kirkland StreetCambridge, MA 02138 email Sarah J Halford received her PhD from Brandeis University in 2024. She studies social movements, culture, and media, with special interests in mis/disinformation, institutional distrust, conspiracy theories, and online movements. Her research explores the role of institutional distrust in recruitment to, and sustained participation in, fringe movements and online communities that espouse radical beliefs, such as conspiracy theories. She is a qualitative researcher who specializes in digital ethnography. Her work has been published in *The Sociological Quarterly, Global Public Health*, and through the Center for Artistic Activism. - ## Current People [Other Faculty](/other-faculty) [Harvard College Fellow](/current-people/harvard-college-fellow) - ## Research Clusters [Comparative Sociology and Social Change](/research-clusters/comparative-sociology-and-social-change) [Culture](/research-clusters/culture) [Political and Historical Sociology](/research-clusters/political-historical-sociology)