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Dr. Lampert received her Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Michigan and her B.A. from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.
Dr. Lampert teaches courses in U.S. history on colonial America, the early republic, women, gender & sexuality, popular culture, slavery, and religion. She also teaches the introductory course for the Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies minor.
Dr. Lampert's book, Starring Women: Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater and Culture, 1790-1850, is forthcoming from University of Illinois Press. She has published research on female platform performance in the mid-19th century and on the career of African-American singer Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield. Her broader interests include 19th-century women's and gender history, celebrity studies, cultural history, and history of sexuality.
- Ph D, American History, The University of Michigan, 2012
- MA, American History, The University of Michigan, 2007
- BA, History and Art History , Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 2004
- Leg Show: Ballet, Burlesque, and Female Spectacle in the Civil War Era and Gilded Age, College of Arts & Sciences University of South Dakota, (2024 - 2025)
- Leg Show: Ballet, Burlesque, and Female Spectacle in the Civil War Era and Gilded Age, American Antiquarian Society, (2024 - 2025)
- Leg Show: Ballet, Burlesque, and Female Spectacle in the Civil War Era and Gilded Age, Houghton Library Visiting Fellowship, (2024 - Present)
- Funding to assist with the University of South Dakota Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Conference , South Dakota Humanities Council Grant2016)
- A&S Faculty Summer Research Funds, College of Arts & Sciences
- Travel Grant, College of Arts & Sciences, University of South Dakota
Citations listed below are presented in a standardized, modified format for display purposes only. They do not necessarily reflect the preferred style and conventions of the faculty member or discipline.
- Lampert, Sara E.. Review of Victorians on Broadway: Literature, Adaptation, and the Modern American Musical, by Sharon Aronofsky Weltman. Victorian Studies, 2023.
- Lampert, Sara E.. Review of Carolyn Eastman's The Strange Genius of Mr. O: The World of the United States' First Celebrity. Journal of the Early Republic, 2022.
- Lampert, Sara E.. Anti-Catholicism and Gender Disorder on the 1830s Stage; or, How Love Conquered a Convent. Commonplace, the journal of early American life, 2022.
- Lampert, Sara E.. “The Presence of Improper Females”: Reforming Theater in Boston and Providence, 1820s-1840s. New England Quarterly, 2021.
- Lampert, Sara E.. Britney Spears’s plight reflects a long history of men controlling women stars. Washington Post, 2021.
- Lampert, Sara . Starring Women: Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater, 1790-1850. University of Illinois Press, 2020.
- Lampert, Sara E.. Review of EQUALITY AT THE BALLOT BOX: VOTES FOR WOMEN ON THE NORTHERN GREAT PLAINS, edited by Lori Ann Lahlum and Molly P. Rozum. North Dakota History: Journal of the Northern Plains, 2020.
- Lampert, Sara E.. Review of Juliane Braun's Creole Drama: Theater and Society in Antebellum New Orleans. Journal of the Early Republic, 2020.
- Lampert, Sara E.. ’Immoderate Menses’ or Abortion? Bodily Knowledge and Illicit Intimacy in an 1851 Divorce Trial.” . Nursing Clio, 2019.
- Lampert, Sara . Review of Sharon Hartman Strom, Fortune, Fame & Desire: Promoting the Self in the Long Nineteenth Century. Journal of the Early Republic, 2019.
- Lampert, Sara . Review of Julia Bricklin, America’s Best Female Sharpshooter: The Rise and Fall of Lillian Frances Smith. South Dakota History, 2018.
- Lampert, Sara . "Thy first temple in the far, far West!": Re/shaping Theatre in St. Louis, MO 1837-1839. Vol. 18, Iss. 2 Ohio Valley History, 2018.
- Lampert, Sara . "‘Instruction which she should avoid’: Reflections on 1830s Theater Manager Thomas Hamblin in the #MeToo Era". Nursing Clio, 2018.
- Lampert, Sara . The “Perfect Delight” of Dramatic Reading: Gertrude Kellogg and the Post–Civil War Lyceum. In Thinking Together: Lecturing, Learning, and Difference in the Long Nineteenth Century, editors Angela Ray and Paul Stob. University Park, MD: Pennsylvania State University Press , 2018.
- Lampert, Sara . Review of Sandra K. Sagala, Buffalo Bill on the Silver Screen: The Films of Buffalo Bill Cody.. Vol. 47, Iss. 2 South Dakota History, 2017.
- Lampert, Sara . “‘Dear Miss Cushman’: The Dreams of Eva McCoy, 1874". Rural Women’s Studies, 2017.
- Lampert, Sara . "Black Swan/White Raven: The Racial Politics of Elizabeth Greenfield’s American Concert Career, 1851-1855". Vol. 17, Iss. 1 American Nineteenth Century History , 2016. (DOI: 10.1080/14664658.2016.1201730)
- Lampert, Sara . Review of Katrina Dyonne Thompson, Ring Shout, Wheel About: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery. Vol. 15, Iss. 3 Ohio Valley History, 2015.
- Lampert, Sara . Review of Jeanne Winston Adler, The Affair of the Veiled Murderess: An Antebellum Scandal and Mystery. Vol. 95, Iss. 1 Oneonta, NY: New York History: A Quarterly Journal, 2014.
- Lampert, Sara . "Bringing Music to the Lyceumites: The Bureaus and the Transformation of Lyceum Entertainment". In The Cosmopolitan Lyceum: Lecture Culture and the Globe in Nineteenth-Century America, editors Tom F. Wright. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013.
- Lampert, Sara . Review of Daniel Cavicchi, Listening and Longing: Music Lovers in the Age of Barnum. Vol. 25, Iss. 4 Journal of Popular Music Studies, 2013.
- Lampert, Sara . "Fanny Davenport, Frances Aymar Mathews, and the Play that Failed"., Editors Gertrude Oberfranc, 214-246. Vol. LXXIII, Iss. 2 Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Library Chronicle, 2012.
- Lampert, Sara . Wild to See Her: Female Celebrity and the Transformation of American Theater and Culture, 1790-1850. University of Illinois Press.
- Lampert, Sara . Wild to See Her: Female Celebrity and the Transformation of American Theater and Culture, 1790-1850. University of Illinois Press.
- Richard & Sharon Cutler Faculty Award in Liberal Arts, College of Arts & Sciences , 2022
- Mosaic Award for Inclusive Excellence , Center for Diversity & Community, University of South Dakota, 2019
- Nominee, Champions of Inclusive Excellence Award, President's Council on Diversity and Inclusiveness, 2018
- Mosaic Award for Inclusive Excellence , Center for Diversity & Community, University of South Dakota, 2017
- Champion of Inclusive Excellence Award, President’s Council on Diversity & Inclusiveness, University of South Dakota, 2016
- Nominee, Mosaic Award for Inclusive Excellence , Center for Diversity & Community, University of South Dakota, 2016
- Nominee, Belbas-Larson Award for Excellence in Teaching , University of South Dakota , 2016
- Nominee, Belbas-Larson Award for Excellence in Teaching , University of South Dakota, 2015
- , “Female Athleticism as Female Spectacle in the National Police Gazette". Presented at the Northern Great Plains History Conference (September 26, 2024)
- , Madame Celeste’s Frontier Maids: Gender in Anglo-Atlantic “Indian” Drama. Presented at the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting, Philadelphia PA. (July 21, 2024)
- Lampert, Sara E., Panel Comment for Theatricality in the Civil War and Reconstruction. Presented at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. (April 2024)
- Lampert, Sara E., The Politics of Fashion: Literary Capital in American Theater., Boston, MA. (October 02, 2023)
- Filotas, Zoli, Seurer, Leah, Hagen, Ben, and Lampert, Sara, The Radical Politics of Care: A Special Session in Memory of bell hooks. Presented at the USD Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Biennial Conference, Vermillion, SD. (March 25, 2022)
- Lampert, Sara , “Elsslermania” and the Danger of Female Celebrity in America. Presented at the Brown Bag Lunch Presentations, University of South Dakota. (October 12, 2021)
- Lampert, Sara , Starring Women Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater, 1790-1851. Presented at the Podcast Interview, https://newbooksnetwork.com/starring-women. (September 2021)
- Lampert, Sara , Anti-Catholicism and Gender Disorder on the 1830s Stage; Or, How Love Conquered a Convent. Presented at the Society for Historians of the Early American Republican (SHEAR) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. (July 15, 2021)
- Lampert, Sara , Abby Breck v. Clark Dalrymple: The Breach of Marriage Promise in the Early US. Presented at the Red River Women's Studies Conference (October 23, 2020)
- Lampert, Sara , Roundtable: Teaching the Early Republic in the American Heartland. Presented at the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting, Cleveland, OH. (July 20, 2018)
- Lampert, Sara , The American Career of Camille” in “The Many Imaginaries of Female Performance, 1850-1900. Presented at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. (April 22, 2018)
- Lampert, Sara , Bankrupt Fathers, Dis/Obedient Daughters and Devoted Wives: Gender and Family in the Early Theater. Presented at the Society for Historians of the Early American Republican (SHEAR) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. (July 22, 2017)
- Lampert, Sara , To Love, Serve, and Obtain Instruction: Desire and Ambition in Charlotte Cushman’s Fanmail. Presented at the Red River Women's Studies Conference, Grand Forks, ND. (October 28, 2016)
- Lampert, Sara , Performances "Both Grave and Gay": The Dramatic Reader in the Lyceum Circuit. Presented at the Popular Knowledge, Public Stage: Cultures of Lecturing and Learning in the Long Nineteenth Century, Alexandria Lyceum, Alexandria, VA. (September 26, 2015)
- Lampert, Sara , Dreams of Fame: Writing Female Ambition in the 1850s. Presented at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA. (November 09, 2014)
- Lampert, Sara , Dreams, Memories, and Reality on the Antebellum and Postbellum Great Plains. Presented at the Northern Great Plains History Conference, Sioux Falls, SD. (October 10, 2014)
- Lampert, Sara , ‘the ladies will not stay away’: The Gender Politics of Dance in the Antebellum American Theater. Presented at the Sixteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (May 23, 2014)
- Lampert, Sara , Her Art, Wit, and Style: Staging Public Womanhood in the Post-Civil War Lyceum. Presented at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA. (April 12, 2014)
- Lampert, Sara , ‘Organized On Respectable Principles’: Reformers and the Problem of Antebellum Theater. Presented at the Humanities Research Forum, Vermillion, SD. (January 27, 2014)
