Sarah Parry Myers

I'm an Associate Professor of History at Messiah University in central Pennsylvania where I teach courses on 20th century U.S. history, gender, public history, and war and memory. I received a 2020-2022 National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) Dialogues on the Experience of War grant for a program focused on generating dialogue with female veterans. For this grant, I led discussion workshops with veterans at the Military Women’s Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery.

 

I'm currently co-editing an anthology, Exploring the Human Costs of Flight: A History of Aviation, Trauma, and Emotions, with historians Jason Crouthamel and Jorden Pitt.

 

My interviews and presentations have appeared on C-SPAN 3 and PBS. I served on the advisory board and interviewed in a documentary aired on PBS entitled Charlotte Mansfield - A Woman Photographer Goes to War. (Mansfield was in the Women’s Army Corps during World War II.)

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I've presented at conferences including the National Council on Public History, Society for Military History, American Historical Association, Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative, the British Commission for Military History’s New Research in Military History Conference, and the Waging Peace Conference sponsored by The Dale Center for the Study of War & Society at the University of Southern Mississippi. I've given invited talks at Historic Fort Snelling in Minnesota; The Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum in New York City; and Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

 

Prior to my position at Messiah University, I was Director of the Keirn Family World War II Museum in Loretto, Pennsylvania where I curated museum exhibits and a WWII Veterans Oral History Project.

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[Photos: Teaching a course in Washington D.C. (courtesy of Kelan Amme) and giving a guest lecture at Texas Tech University.]