About
Sarah W. Tracy, Ph.D. is the Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor at the University of Oklahoma Honors College and Department of History Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences. She is an historian, professor, author, and consultant. Tracy lives in Oklahoma City with her aggressively friendly Border Collie “Beau.” She is an avid cyclist and enjoys hiking, cooking, and travel.
Get to Know Me
Originally from Northampton, Massachusetts, Tracy graduated from Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, where she resurrected the student-run history of science journal, Synthesis, and raced bicycles intercollegiately. Tracy earned her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in the history and sociology of science and wrote her doctoral thesis on the medicalization of habitual drunkennsess in Massachusetts between 1833 and 1919. She is completing a biography of the nutritional physiologist, cardiovascular disease epidemiologist, and Mediterranean diet cookbook author, Ancel Keys.