Professor of Archaeology

BA (Sheff.), MPhil, PhD (Cantab.)

Centre for Historical Archaeology

Tel: 0116 252 2846

Email: sat12@le.ac.uk

After completing her PhD at Cambridge in 1995, Sarah became Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Wales Lampeter. She moved to Leicester to join the School in June 2000 as Lecturer in Historical Archaeology and became Senior Lecturer in 2006. In Spring 2012 Sarah was awarded a Chair in Archaeology at the School.

As well as her own research work, Sarah is an editor of the journal Archaeological Dialogues. From February 2012 she is on study leave to concentrate on her major research programme 'Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse' funded by the Wellcome Trust.

Research

• Research interests
• CV and Publications (as at September 2011)

Teaching

N.B.  - Sarah will not be teaching between Feb 2012 and Feb 2013, although she will continute to supervise research students.

Undergraduate on-campus: Module co-ordinator for AR3008: The Archaeology of Improvement, AR2036: Professional Skills

Contributions to AR1005: Introduction to World Archaeology A.D., AR2029: Archaeological theory, and various other modules

Postgraduate: MA in Historical Archaeology, on-campus and by distance learning. I co-ordinate the method and theory module Doing Historical Archaeology and the field school module The Archaeology of England, and contribute to the other modules

PhD Supervision

Sarah is currently supervising doctoral research on topics including modernity in British urban housing; Anglo-Portuguese relationships in the cod fisheries of Newfoundland; object biographies of early colonial material culture in Jamestown. She especially welcomes enquiries from students wishing to work on the body, death and commemoration in later historical periods, and on aspects of archaeological theory, especially emotion and ethics.

Selected Recent Publications

A fine and private place: the archaeology of death and burial in post-medieval Britain and Ireland (Leicester Archaeological Monograph 22. 2012). With Annia Cherryson and Zoe Crossland

Ritual, belief and the dead body in early modern Britain and Ireland (Cambridge University Press 2011)

'Who are you calling marginal? A squatter settlement in upland Wales.' In P. Rainbird (ed) Monuments in the landscape: studies in honour of Andrew Fleming. (Tempus 2008)

'The extraordinary story of Oliver Cromwell’s Head'. In J. Robb and D. Borić (eds) Past Bodies: body-centred research in archaeology. (Oxbow Books 2008)

The Archaeology of Improvement in Britain, 1750-1850 (Cambridge University Press 2007).  

'Archaeological ethics and the people of the past', in C Scarre and G Scarre (eds.) The Ethics of Archaeology (Cambridge University Press 2006).