Sarah Choi (she/her/hers)

Sarah Choi is a doctoral candidate in Cinema & Media Studies at the UW, whose research interests include race and cinema, orphan films, and found footage filmmaking. Sarah is the recipient of the 2024-2025 AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship, the 2024-2025 Humanities Washington's Public Humanities Fellowship, the 2022 Simpson Center Digital Humanities Summer Fellowship, and the 2021 Barclay Simpson Scholars in Public Fellowship. In 2021, she won Third Place in the Society for Cinema & Media Studies (SCMS) Student Writing Award for her essay, " Life, Death, or Something in Between: Photographic Taxidermy in Get Out (2017)." As a filmmaker, Sarah creates screendance and documentaries, and curates films for the Lights Dance Festival, which she founded in 2016. She served as the Managing Editor of Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal from 2022-2023.