Ruins at Pergamum, Anatolia
After a successful career as humanities teacher, high school principal, and adjunct college professor at Regis University and the University of Denver, Dr. Sargent spends her time researching background information for her historic series, Power Women: Lessons From the Ancient World. As a published author and a winner of several awards for research, and national awards for writing, she is passionate about relating women’s participation in the history of humanity. Her goal is to relate history, not through wars, the great generals, or the strategies they used to conquer, but through women’s lives, those who lived through the wars, fought against the generals, and suffered the strategies of powerful men. Several manipulated their own stratagem through scheming and murder to raise their own sons to the throne—and some died trying.
Having traveled to the ancient places, Luxor, Ephesus, Anatolia, Stonehenge, Athens, and Rome as well as China, Japan, and Britain, she has perused the ruins of temples, libraries, and places of worship like the stone circles of Stonehenge, Avebury, and Callanish on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. She has also visited the temples of Luxor and Delphi, the Parthenon, and the Megalithic temples of Malta, which are a thousand years older than the Giza pyramids. Sargent has researched the history of the places and woven that background into her writings. The information in her historic series comes from scholarly sources. However, the writing style is geared to educated readers who love history and those new to ancient history but who are curious about women’s lives.
Sargent lives in Golden, Colorado.