Sarah Tarlow

Sarah Tarlow is a British archaeologist and academic. As professor of historical archaeology at the University of Leicester, Tarlow is best known for her work on the archaeology of death and burial. In 2012, Tarlow was awarded the chair in archaeology at the University of Leicester.

Early life and education Sarah Tarlow was born in 1967. She obtained a BA in 1989 from Sheffield University, a MPhil (1990) and a PhD (1995) from Cambridge University.

Career

Tarlow taught at the University of Wales, Lampeter from 1995 to 2000. In 2000, she became a lecturer in Historical archaeology at the University of Leicester, and in 2006 was promoted to senior lecturer. In 2012, Tarlow was awarded the chair in archaeology.

Tarlow's research focuses on the historical archaeology of Great Britain and Northern Europe. She has published several books, journals and edited anthologies on the archaeology of death and burial, including the Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial (Oxford Handbooks). Tarlow also studies the archaeology of emotion and issues of archaeological ethics.

Tarlow is a member of the editorial advisory board of the archaeology journal Antiquity.

Writing

Tarlow's memoir, The Archaeology of Loss: Life, love and the art of dying (Picador, 2023)) is about caring for her husband, also an archaeologist, Mark Pluciennik, who had a progressive neurological illness affecting his brain and his functioning. Pluciennik died by suicide in 2016.

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