Sarah Griffis came to DSU in 2019 as a student-athlete and graduated with a Bachelors of Arts in English in the Spring of 2023. She is currently an Admissions Counselor at DSU. During her four years as a student at DSU, Sarah was a distance runner for the Blue Hawk Cross Country and Track ad Field team, a member of the TRHLP, was an RA between 2020-2023, and acted as the 2022-23 President of the History Society/League of Political Science organization. Sarah also participated in a few theater performances and tutored for the SOAR’s Writing Center.

While in her last year and a half as a student, Sarah discovered a passion for historical research and began working with Dr. Jeff Wells on an undergraduate thesis that explored the relationship between former US President Theodore Roosevelt and the nineteenth century poet Edwin Arlington Robinson. Sarah presented her research first at the 2022 Northern Great Plains History Conference, then again in the summer of 2023 for the Theodore Roosevelt Association.

Sarah is currently continuing to fine-tune her undergraduate thesis with Dr. Wells in an attempt to have the research published, while also earning a Certificate in Digital Communications. She hopes to soon enter into a History Master’s program and then start a career at a museum or archive.