Sarah Banet-Weiser is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Annenberg. Her teaching and research interests include feminist theory, race and the media, children's media, popular culture, and national identity. She teaches courses in the Entertainment track of the Communication curriculum, including classes on children and the media, and gender and communication.

She is the author of The Most Beautiful Girl in the World: Beauty Pageants and National Identity (1999), which explores the interconnections of gender, race and national identity within the Miss America pageant. In addition to this book, she has published articles on sports and gender, children and technology, and children, media and national identity. She is currently working on a book on the children's cable network Nickelodeon, which examines children's citizenship and the media (under contract with Duke University Press).