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Dr. Sarah Katherine Mergel received her B.A. from Boston
College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from The George Washington
University. She specializes in American political,
intellectual, and diplomatic history since the end of the
Civil War. Her dissertation—“A Report Card for Richard
Nixon: Conservative Intellectuals and the
President”—examines how conservative intellectuals
influenced and reacted to political and social developments
during the Nixon administration. Sarah recently completed a
biography on John Gillespie an influential member of the
International Brotherhood of Teamsters in the years before
World War II as well as several encyclopedia articles on
recent presidential elections and reform movements in the
twentieth century. In future research and writing, Sarah
plans to explore how intellectual thought, political trends,
and foreign relations relate to one another—especially
during the Reagan era.
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