Sara McDougall

Sara McDougall is a professor of history at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and is an appointed faculty member at the CUNY Graduate Center for the fields of Biography and Memoir, French, History, and Medieval Studies. Her research focuses on the topics of the judicial decisions on gender in the Middle Ages and how medieval law and religion influenced legal outcomes.

Education Graduating with a bachelor's degree from Boston University, McDougall also completed a Master's degree from the same university in 2003, While working on her Ph.D., she spent one summer traveling across France to search through church records alongside her interests in gender, marriage, and legal decisions. and later a full professor.