Sarah Sadlier is a History PhD Candidate with a secondary field in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.  As an undergraduate at Stanford, she quadruple majored in American Studies with Honors, History with Honors, Iberian and Latin American Cultures, and Political Science (secondary major) and graduated with Distinction.  She completed her M.A. in Modern Thought and Literature in 2017 at Stanford University and her A.M. in History in 2019 at Harvard University.  In 2022, she graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School.  She is the recipient of over fifty awards and fellowships, including Harvard Law School’s Law & Graduate Studies Fellowship, the Irving Oberman Memorial Prize for Equal Justice Under the Law, and the Dean’s Award for Community Leadership, as well as Harvard University’s Presidential Scholarship and Presidential Public Service Fellowship.

Sarah was the Vice President of the Harvard Law Review, where she published pieces on tribal sovereignty, boarding school reparations, voting rights, and using the Indian canons of construction to strengthen climate change suits.  Among other courses, she has been a Teaching Fellow for American Indian Law and American Legal History.  Her dissertation is on Native American Legal Advocacy in the Courts of the Conqueror, 1967-2022.