Dr. Sarah Myers

Sarah Myers is a historian of public history, gender history, and war and society. As a public historian, she has conducted numerous oral history interviews for her own research on female pilots in World War II and with Pennsylvanian veterans of various wars and conflicts. In her previous role as director of The Keirn Family World War II Museum, a museum she created and opened, she hosted living history events and museum exhibition openings. She has also conducted interviews with documentaries and local and national media outlets on women in aviation, the U.S. military, and the anniversary of historic events. She recently received a National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) grant to generate dialogue with female veterans at five institutions around the U.S.

• Ph.D. Texas Tech University
• M.A., Missouri State University
• B.A., University of Missouri-Rolla

• Gender, Genocide, and Human Rights (Interdisciplinary-First Year Seminar)
• HIST 393 Public History
• HIST 142 U.S. History Survey Since 1865
• HIST 392 Women and Gender in History
• HIST 359 War, Peace, & Memory in America
• HIST 397 Museums, Memorials, and Monuments

U.S. women’s and gender history, public history, oral history, human rights, veterans studies, aviation, and war and society