About Sarah

Sarah Wyer is a second year graduate student in Arts Administration and Folklore at the University of Oregon and holds a Graduate Teaching Fellowship with the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. She is fresh from a summer internship with the Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, WA where she worked with Board Relations & Development. She is from San Diego, CA and has a background in museum work and historic preservation. Her undergraduate degrees are in Anthropology and Folklore.

Sarah’s research interests are all over the place, but she is specifically focusing in on issues of representation in museums, constructs of value, authority, and authenticity, feminism, and collaborative museology.