Sarah is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at McMaster University. Her doctoral research examines how environment, race, and cultural identity shaped Newfoundland’s mining communities in late-19th to early-20th-century Canada. She is a student researcher on the SSHRC-funded Mining Danger Project.

Sarah is also the Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Written in the Waves, an online graduate student journal dedicated to women's research on the history, anthropology, and folklore of the Atlantic world.