Born in South Africa, and educated there and in the United Kingdom, Sarah is Assistant Professor of African and World History at Colby College in Maine. A historian of age and gender, she is the author of Changing Childhoods in the Cape Colony: Dutch Reformed Church Evangelicalism and Colonial Childhood, 1860-1895 (2015) and Children and Youth in African History (2022). Before coming to the US, she worked at Goldsmiths, University of London, and at Stellenbosch University and the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Her current research is on sex education and histories of the future in twentieth-century South Africa, and on menopause in the nineteenth-century British Empire.
