Sarah Perkins

Sarah Perkins is a doctoral candidate in English at Stanford University. Currently a Mellon fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center and a former fellow at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), she specializes in late nineteenth and early twentieth century American literature. Her dissertation, Dixie Bound: An American Mystery, explores the cultural history of the song, "I Wish I Was In Dixie."