Dr. Sarah Johnson is a 19C American historian and was initially trained in curatorial practice at the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute/NYU. She has 20 years of higher education teaching experience, having taught design history and material culture at Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, University of Hertfordshire, UK ,and Carnegie Mellon’s School of Design. Her museum experience includes the Ellis Island Immigration Museum/Statue of Liberty, Herb Lubalin Center at Cooper Union, collections management of an archival collection as Putnam County Historian, and Executive Director at the Putnam History Museum. Since 2019, she has served on the Steering Committee of an EU research group, ACORSO at Brighton University, where she did her Ph.D. She is especially interested in immigrants, women, garment workers as they intersect with the material world.