Sarah Edith Kleinman is an Art History PhD candidate and adjunct instructor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia and an affiliate instructor at the Metropolitan State University of Denver specializing in histories of modern and contemporary art, museum studies, and studio practices. Her subfields include African American art, Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora art, global contemporary art, and diaspora studies. Ongoing and future research projects explore themes of exile, migration and movement, personal history, identity, materiality, postcolonial/decolonial theory, and the ethics and politics of representation, collecting, and display.

Sarah is the Communications Officer and Webmaster for the Society of Contemporary Art Historians (SCAH) and the Board Secretary and Communications Officer of the Colorado Fulbright Association. Since 2015, she has worked as a digital archivist, web developer, and advisor for established and up-and-coming artists. Sarah holds bachelor's degrees in Political Science and Art & Art History from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a master's in Art History from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Her dissertation and scholarly activities have been generously supported by Virginia Commonwealth University's Frederika and Paul Jacobs Dissertation Merit Scholarship, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Graduate Fellowship for Art History, and a Fulbright U.S. Student Program Fellowship to Trinidad and Tobago.