Sarah Rebecca Schmid is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies (AOI) at the University of Zurich. She holds an M.A. in East Asian Art History and Japanese Philology, and a PhD in Japanology. In 2025, she embarked on a two-year fellowship at Kyūshū University in Fukuoka (Japan), funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). During this fellowship, she continues her research on Jingū kōgō, particularly on the role she played in the Kyūshū and Kansai regions during the Meiji and early Taishō periods.