Sarah Ernst (they/them) is a PhD student in History at the University of Southern California. Their research interests include the Holocaust and the AIDS epidemic, with a focus on queer history. They are looking to explore the intersection between the Holocaust and queer history and the memorialization of these experiences in the postwar era in Germany.

Sarah Ernst received their B.A. in History and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies in 2020 from Brandeis University. While there, they completed a Senior Honors Thesis under the supervision of Dr. Hannah Weiss Muller entitled, "You Mean Something Absolutely Vital to Me”: An Insight into the Lived Experiences of Female Companions to Hysterics in England in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries." This research looked at hysteria and the personal and social impacts of it for women in non-heteronormative relationships.