Sarah Eaton currently holds a post in Germany as Professor of Modern Chinese Society and Economy at Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany, where her teaching and research focuses on contemporary Chinese political economy. Prior to this, she was an Associate Professor of Chinese Political Economy at the University of Oxford's School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, where she taught in the Contemporary China Studies Master's programme. At Oxford, she was also a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. She is also a past Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo and a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford. During her doctoral studies at the University of Toronto's Department of Political Science, she was the recipient of a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship.