Sarah Goodrum

Sarah Goodrum is Professor of Photography History and Theory at the SRH Berlin School of Design and Communication. She is also an art historian, editor, writer, and translator with extensive experience in publishing.

She received her PhD in Art History from the University of Southern California in 2015. Her dissertation project, “The Problem of the Missing Museum: The Construction of Photographic Culture in the GDR,” examines the impulse to build a new history of photography and, ultimately, a national photography museum, suited to the socialist context in East Germany.

She has worked in editorial for De Gruyter Verlag, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the American Marketing Association's Journal of Marketing, and the College Art Association's Art Bulletin journal, and has served as research assistant to the head of the scholars program at the Getty Research Institute. She has also worked as a freelancer for over 20 years with a wide range of clients as an editor, copywriter, and translator.

Her scholarly writing and criticism has been published in Zeithistorische Forschungen, the International Journal of History, Culture, and Modernity, and Afterimage, among other publications. Funding and support for her research and study has been awarded by the Conference Group for Central European History, DAAD, the Borchard Foundation, the Fulbright Program, the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (Center for Contemporary HIstory or ZZF) at the University of Potsdam, and the American Association of University Women (AAUW). She is based in Berlin, Germany.

(photo: Wolfgang Kommerell)