Sarah primarily studies early modern northern European art. She is currently writing a dissertation on early-16th-century, Swiss artist and mercenary soldier Urs Graf. Dealing with artistic acts in relation to artists’ political agency, her work questions whether it is possible to create art (un)ethically. In terms of medium, Sarah focuses on prints and drawings for their complex social existence in public and private. This focus grows out of a long-term, transhistorical interest in Institutional Critique, art as a political act, and artistic engagement with questions of individual versus systemic responsibility. Her writing—including on Modern and Contemporary art—thus engages broadly with themes of freedom and constraint, artistic violence, the self, gender and sexuality, and race. Sarah holds an AB from Harvard University and an MA with Distinction from the Courtauld Institute of Art.

For the 2023-24 academic year, Sarah is a predoctoral fellow in the Lise Meitner Research Group at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome.