Basic Biographical Information
Sarah Tarlow is a historical archaeologist based in the United Kingdom. She received her B.A. in English Literature from Sheffield University in 1989 and her M.Phil. (1990) and Ph.D. (1995) in Archaeology from the University of Cambridge. She taught at the University of Wales, Lampeter, between 1995 and 2000, before taking up a position as lecturer in Historical Archaeology at the University of Leicester. She was appointed to senior lecturer in 2006 and was appointed to a personal chair in spring 2012.
Among many high-profile professional duties, Tarlow has been an active editorial contributor to the journal Archaeological Dialogues and the leading figure in the development of the teaching and research programs in Historical Archaeology at the University of Leicester.
Major Accomplishments
Tarlow’s doctoral thesis, supervised by Ian Hodder, was titled Metaphors of Death in Orkney, CE 1600–1945and explored how early modern and modern gravestones could be...
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References
Tarlow, S. 1999. Bereavement and commemoration: an archaeology of mortality. Oxford: Blackwell.
- 2007. The archaeology of improvement: Britain 1750–1850. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- 2008. The extraordinary story of Oliver Cromwell’s Head in J. Robb & D. Borić (ed.) Past bodies: body-centred research in archaeology: 69–78. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
- 2011. Ritual, belief and the dead in early modern Britain and Ireland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Tarlow, S. & S. West. (ed.) 1999. The familiar past? Archaeologies of later historical Britain. London: Routledge.
Further Reading
Cherryson, A., Z. Crossland & S.Tarlow. 2011. A fine and private place: the archaeology of death and burial in post-medieval Britain and Ireland (Leicester Archaeological Monograph 22). Leicester: University of Leicester.
Hamilakis, Y., M. Pluciennik & S. Tarlow. (ed.) 2001. Thinking through the body: archaeologies of corporeality. New York: Kluwer Academic.
Tarlow, S. 1997. An archaeology of remembering: death, bereavement and the First World War. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 7: 105–21.
- 2000. Emotion in archaeology. Current Anthropology 41: 713–45.
- 2003. Excavating Utopia: why archaeologists should study ‘ideal’ communities of the nineteenth century. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 6: 299–323.
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Hicks, D. (2014). Tarlow, Sarah. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_1792
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