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Sarah Lyons Watts (born 1942) is a history professor at Wake Forest University and author of the critically acclaimed Rough Rider in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Desire, University of Chicago Press, 2003, and other publications. [1]

In 2008, Sarah Watts was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her work on the early satirical cartoons by the German-American expressionist painter Lyonel Feininger. [2]

Dr. Watts retired from Wake Forest University in the spring of 2007. Her plans at that time were to continue writing for publication. She is also a landscape artist working in oils and pastels.

Books

"Built Languages of Class: Skyscrapers and Labor Protest in Victorian Public Space" in Roberta Moudry, ed., "Skyscrapers: A Cultural History." Cambridge University Press, 2005. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Sarah Watts - US & Canada Competition - Fine Arts Research". Guggenheim Foundation. Archived from the original on September 20, 2012. Retrieved April 17, 2011.
  2. "Professor Sarah Watts". Wake Forest University. Retrieved April 17, 2011.