Dr. Sarah Myers

Sarah Myers is a historian of U.S. history, public history, gender history, and war and society. She is the recipient of a 2020-2022 National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) grant for a program focused on generating dialogue with female veterans. Her book, Earning Their Wings: The WASPs of World War II and Their Fight for Veteran Recognition (UNC Press), explores the history of female pilots. She is co-editor of an anthology on the human costs of flight. Her current research project is on the history of American eugenics in the 20th century. As a public historian, her interviews and presentations have appeared on C-SPAN 3 and PBS. Prior to her position at Messiah University, she was Director of the Keirn Family World War II Museum in Loretto, Pennsylvania where she curated museum exhibits and an Oral History Project.

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

• Gender and Human Rights (First Year Seminar)
• U.S. History Survey Since 1865
• War, Peace, & Memory in America
• World War II
• Modern America
• Public History
• Women and Gender in American History
• Museums, Memorials, and Monuments

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