Sara Salman is a lecturer at the Institute of Criminology at Victoria University of Wellington, Te Whare Wānanga o te Ūpoko o te Ika a Māui, New Zealand. Sara received her PhD from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research interests are citizenship and state violence, terrorism, gender, sexuality and crime. Her published work examines theoretical trajectories in criminology, gender and sexuality in criminology, nativism and host hostility. She is currently researching citizenship and belonging in New Zealand.