about the author

Sarah Cook is an editor, researcher, and author of historical fiction and nonfiction. Her current projects are a history of global polio eradication for Rotary International (Volumes I and II published, Volume III in progress) and novels about women facing perils in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe.

Sarah has taught university level and adult continuing education courses; served on an encyclopedia research and editorial staff; administered international development programs; and written as an independent contractor for a variety of educational publishers and others, including 17 years for the monthly newsletter Women in Higher Education. She has traveled widely and volunteered for state and local historical societies. She holds a Ph.D. in history with an emphasis on early modern Europe.

Clients

  • Women in Higher Education
  • Rotary International
  • Encyclopaedia Britannica
  • Compton’s Encyclopedia
  • Numerous educational publishers

Publications

  • Rotary and the Gift of a Polio-Free World, Volume I: Making the Promise
  • Rotary and the Gift of a Polio-Free World, Volume II: Almost Every Child
  • The Bailly Area of Porter County, Indiana (with Robert S. Jackson; Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore)
  • Henry Chandler Cowles (1869-1939) and Cowles Bog, Indiana (Field Museum of Natural History)
  • “The Congregational Independents and the Cromwellian Constitutions” (in Church History, v. 46, no. 3)
  • From Unity to IIU: A History of the Second Unitarian Church of Chicago