Marshall Scholar
Class of 2025
Nakayama Scholar
Hometown: Indianapolis, Indiana
Major: History
Minors: Computer Science and French Studies
Sarah Konrad is from Indianapolis, Indiana, majoring in history with minors in French studies and computer science. At Duke, Konrad was named a Faculty Scholar for her research ranging from international jurisprudence, legal marginalization, and 19th century women's history, unified by her interest in the historical construction of legal rights. As a researcher and author for the Duke Institutional History Project, she has written about the relationship between women, the university, and the property law of slavery. In 2023, Konrad served as a Gilder Lehrman College Fellow in American History, studying the history of criminal jurisprudence in the slaveholding South. She spent several weeks this year in both the Muscogee and Cherokee Nations, writing her honors thesis on Cherokee and Anglo-American jurisprudence, women's property rights, and slavery in the 19th century, a portion of which was published by the Columbia Journal of History in 2023. On the other side of the globe, she interned with the Refugee Rights Unit of the University of Cape Town this past summer. Outside of the archive, she can be found baking experimental recipes and writing fantasy.