Sarah Trembanis
Sarah Trembanis
Professor, History
UD Academic Center, Education & Technology Building
Dover Campus
Biography
Sarah Trembanis teaches and studies twentieth century American history, with a specific emphasis on how culture has intersected with racial and gender identity. In her book, The Set Up Men: Race, Culture, and Resistance in Black Baseball (McFarland, 2014), she argues that African Americans used trickster tales, naming practices, humor, and editorial art to attack the racial binarism and white supremacy that undergirded Jim Crow policies in white Major League baseball. Currently, she is working on a monograph about the performance of gender by teenage-daughter characters in 1950s American sitcoms. She teaches a wide variety of courses on race, gender, film, and sport. An unrepentant travel addict, she and her family make frequent trips abroad, often to their favorite place in the world, Ferrara, Italy. She lives in Middletown, Delaware, with her husband, two kids, and Vincenzo the dog.
Courses Taught
HIST 205: U.S. History to 1865
HIST 206: U.S. History Since 1865
HIST 220: The Civil Rights Movement
HIST 221: Film and American Society
HIST 300: Women in American History
HIST 316: Civic Engagement in America
HIST 337: American Sports History
WOMS 201: Intro to Women's Studies
Education
Ph.D., The College of William and Mary
M.A., The College of William and Mary
B.A., Duke University
Publications
Sarah L. Trembanis, The Set Up Men: Race, Culture, and Resistance in Black Baseball (McFarland, 2014).
Sarah L. Trembanis. “A Darker Hue: Race and Adoption in Richmond, Virginia 1959.” Journal of Women, Gender, Families of Color, 5(1), 3–26. http://muse.jhu.edu/article/657583.
Sarah L. Trembanis. “Signifying Baseball: Tricksters and Folklore in Black Baseball,” Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, 3(2), 21-36.
Melissa Ooten and Sarah Trembanis. “Filming Eugenics.” The Public Historian, Vol. 29, No. 3, 145–155.
Press
Interview about The Set Up Men on Genesis in the Zone With Ian Kahanowitz, October 2017.
Interview about The Set Up Men: Black Baseball in the Face of Jim Crow, The Root and Roots Show with Greg Rasheed, July 2015.
