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. She is passionate about understanding the historical construction of legal rights and the interaction of the law with marginalized groups. Konrad is a researcher and author for the Duke Institutional History Project, for which she has studied the relationship between women, the university, and slavery. She is currently a Gilder Lehrman College Fellow in American History, researching the history of criminal jurisprudence in the slaveholding South. Konrad is the creator of the ContrApartheid Dispatch, an advocacy platform centered on gender apartheid in Afghanistan and international law, which she has researched for the past year under Professor Catherine Admay. After graduation, she aims to attend law school and pursue a career in human rights and constitutional law.