Participant Info
- First Name
- Sarah
- Last Name
- Parry Myers
- Country
- United States
- State
- PA Pennsylvania
- spmyers@messiah.edu
- Affiliation
- Messiah University
- Website URL
- http://www.sarahparrymyers.com
- Keywords
- war and society, gender in the military, veterans studies, U.S. and international women’s history, oral history, labor history, public history, history of sexuality, gender and aviation, women and war
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Sarah Parry Myers, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of History at Messiah University in central Pennsylvania where she teaches courses on 20th century U.S. history, gender history, public history, and war and society. Myers is the author of Earning Their Wings: The WASPs of World War II and the Fight for Veteran Recognition (UNC Press, 2023). She previously attended a National Endowment of the Humanities Summer Institute on Veterans Studies and received a 2020-2022 National Endowment of the Humanities Dialogues on the Experience of War grant, “We are Veterans Too: Women’s Experiences in the U.S. Military.” She was interviewed in a documentary, ‘Charlotte Mansfield – A Photographer Goes to War,’ aired on PBS: https://www.pbs.org/show/charlotte-mansfield-woman-photographer-goes-war/
- Recent Publications
Earning Their Wings: The WASPs of World War II and the Fight for Veteran Recognition (UNC Press, 2023).
“How one ‘Rosie the Riveter’ poster won out over all the others and became a symbol of female empowerment,” co-authored with G. Kurt Piehler, The Conversation, May 25, 2018. https://theconversation.com/how-one-rosie-the-riveter-poster-won-out-over-all-the-others-and-became-a-symbol-of-female-empowerment-96496
- Media Coverage
- https://www.c-span.org/series/?ahtv http://www.altoonamirror.com/news/local-news/2017/11/veterans-tell-stories-at-saint-francis-university-museum/
- Social Media
- @DrSarahMyers
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, Modern, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Genocide, Human Rights, Military, Museums, Public History, Race, Women, World War II
