Sarah Banet-Weiser

Expert in children and the media, race and gender, beauty pageants and body image
  • Associate professor of communication, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
  • Associate, USC Gender Studies Program
Office: (213) 740-4088

Expertise

  • gender and media
  • contemporary American culture
  • race and popular culture
  • gender and popular culture
  • nationalism and popular culture
  • American television
  • American film
  • children and media
  • children and popular culture
  • beauty pageants
  • body image
  • Nickelodeon
  • sports and gender
  • children's citizenship and identity
  • feminist theory
  • cultural studies
  • youth culture
  • culture and communication

Additional Information

  • Author of The Most Beautiful Girl in the World: Beauty Pageants and National Identity (1999)
  • Author of  Authentic: The Politics of Ambivalence in a Brand Culture. It was the winner of the 2012 International Communication Association’s Outstanding Book Award. Also published in 2012 was Commodity Activism: Cultural Resistance in Neoliberal Times (New York University Press), co-edited with Roopali Muhkerjee.
  • She has published articles in the academic journals Critical Studies and Media Communication, Feminist Theory, the International Journal of Communication, and Television and New Media, among others. She co-edited a book series with New York University Press, “Critical Cultural Communication,” from 2006-2012, and was the editor of American Quarterly from 2010-2014.