Participant Info
- First Name
- Sarah
- Last Name
- Fling
- Country
- United States
- State
- DC District of Columbia
- sarahefling@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- White House Historical Association
- Website URL
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-fling/
- Keywords
- Public History, Presidents and First Ladies, Material Culture, White House History, White House Collection, White House Staff
- Availability
- 1
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- MA
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Sarah Fling is a Historian at the White House Historical Association in Washington, D.C. Sarah received her M.A. in Public History from American University in 2021 and her B.A. in History from the University of Pittsburgh in 2019. Before joining the White House Historical Association, she previously worked at historic sites including George Washington’s Mount Vernon and the Frick Pittsburgh. Sarah specializes in material culture and nineteenth-century gender history and has proven experience in museum curation, education, and social media content creation.
- Recent Publications
“Sugar, Slavery, and the Washington China,” White House Historical Association, 2021.
“The First Ladies and Slavery,” White House Historical Association, 2020.
Sarah Fling and Cameron Katz, “Lizzie McDuffie, White House Maid, Lobbied FDR on Civil Rights,” Teen Vogue, 2023.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @flingsarahe
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Presidents, Local & Regional, Material Culture, Museums, Public History, Slavery, Women
