Sarah Banet-Weiser
- Associate professor of communication, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
- Associate, USC Gender Studies Program
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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.