Dr. Sarah Gordon

Sarah Gordon is a historian, curator, and teacher. She is part of the research and curatorial team at the Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island Foundation and a faculty member of the CUNY School of Professional Studies Museum Studies program, where she teaches History and Theory of Museums and Contemporary Issues in Public History. Prior to joining the Ellis Island project Gordon was the curator at the Reher Center for Immigrant Culture and History in Kingston, New York, where she created Sewing in Kingston (2022) and Taking Root (2023), and a curatorial scholar at the New-York Historical Society’s Center for Women’s History, where she worked on exhibitions such as Hotbed (2017), Women’s Voices (ongoing), LIFE: Six Women Photographers (2019) and Women March (2020). Her writing has been published in the Journal of Women’s History, Material History Review, edited volumes, and the Albany Times-Union. Gordon received her doctorate in American and Women’s History at Rutgers University.