Sarah Lyons Watts (born 1942) is a history professor at

Wake Forest University Wake Forest University is a private research university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Founded in 1834, the university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, north of Raleigh, North Carolina. The Reynolda Campus, the un ...

and author of the critically acclaimed ''Rough Rider in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Desire'',

University of Chicago Press The University of Chicago Press is the largest and one of the oldest university presses in the United States. It is operated by the University of Chicago and publishes a wide variety of academic titles, including ''The Chicago Manual of Style'', ...

, 2003, and other publications. In 2008, Sarah Watts was awarded a

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

for her work on the early satirical cartoons by the German-American expressionist painter

Lyonel Feininger Lyonel Charles Feininger (July 17, 1871January 13, 1956) was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism. He also worked as a caricaturist and comic strip artist. He was born and grew up in New York City, traveling to Germa ...

. 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

* ''Rough Rider in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Desire.'' University of Chicago, 2003. * ''Order against Chaos: Business Culture and Labor Ideology in America, 1880-1915.'' Greenwood, 1990. "Built Languages of Class: Skyscrapers and Labor Protest in Victorian Public Space" in Roberta Moudry, ed., "Skyscrapers: A Cultural History." Cambridge University Press, 2005.

References

1942 births Living people Wake Forest University faculty {{US-historian-stub