Sarah Lyons Watts (born 1942) is a history professor at Wake Forest University and author of Rough Rider in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Desire, University of Chicago Press, 2003, and other publications.In 2008, Sarah Watts was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her work on the early satirical cartoons by the German-American expressionist painter Lyonel Feininger.Dr. Watts retired from Wake Forest University in the spring of 2007. Her plans at that time were to continue writing for publication. She is also a landscape artist working in oils and pastels.