Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins

Sarah Van Voorhis Woolfolk Wiggins (June 29, 1934 - April 12, 2020) was a history professor at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She was the first woman in the university's history department and edited The Alabama Review for 20 years.

She was born in Montgomery, Alabama. She studied at Huntingdon College and then Louisiana State University under professor T. Harry Williams. She married and had children. She raised them on her own after her husband died.

In the 1960s and 1970s she wrote several articles and a book on Reconstruction era politics in Alabama.