Sara Lipton is a medieval historian; she is a Professor of History at Stony Brook University, where she has been appointed as Department Chair for 2023-26. She has been elected to serve as the 100th President of the Medieval Academy of America (2024-25).

Lipton is noted for her work on the medieval origins of the iconography of antisemitism.^[1][2]

• Lipton, Sara (2014). Dark Mirror: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Jewish Iconography. New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt. ISBN 978-0805079104. The book traces the development of antisemitic imagery from the 1000s through the 1400s.^[3][4][5][6] It was awarded the John Nicholas Brown Book Prize for Best First Book from the Medieval Academy of America.
• Lipton, Sara (1999). Images of Intolerance: The Representation of Jews and Judaism in the Bible moralisée. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520215511. The book won the 2015 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for Cultural Studies and Media Studies from the Association for Jewish Studies.