Sarah Schrader
Associate professor
- Name
- Dr. S.A. Schrader
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 1685
- s.a.schrader@arch.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-0424-6748
Dr. Sarah Schrader is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Archaeology and is the Head of the Laboratory for Human Osteoarchaeology.
More information about Sarah Schrader
News
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Egyptian archaeologists deepen their expertise on human osteoarchaeology in Leiden -
Leiden workshop leads to special issue Journal of Osteoarchaeology -
Veronica Tamorri comes to Leiden with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie post-doctoral fellowship -
Proteins are not distributed equally in ancient teeth -
Archaeologist Sarah Schrader receives a grant to explore the evolution of stress -
Investigating health equality in the past with a VIDI grant: ‘We will look for indications of stress’ -
Vidi grant for seven researchers from Leiden University -
Sarah Schrader appointed to Young Academy Leiden -
Sarah Schrader to head the Osteoarchaeology lab
Office days
Monday to Friday
Research
Dr. Schrader’s research focuses on the excavation and analysis of human skeletal remains to address stress, everyday life, social inequality, health and disease, diet and nutrition, resilience and frailty, migration, physical activity, and more. She has experience with macroscopic, microscopic, and biomolecular approaches to investigating the past. Dr. Schrader currently holds a NWO VIDI grant "Embodied Inequality: Transforming Archaeological Knowledge of State Formation, Social Disparity, and Health Inequality” (2021-2026), an NWO XS grant “The Evolution of Stress” (2024-2025), and a Kiem Grant (Leids Universiteits Fonds) “Bone Under the Microscope” (2025).
Dr. Schrader is Head of the Laboratory for Human Osteoarchaeology.
Teaching activities
Dr. Schrader teaches on the topics of osteoarchaeology and paleopathology. She is a point of contact for the MSc and PhD program in osteoarchaeology.
Curriculum vitae
Dr. Schrader received her PhD from Purdue University in 2013. She worked at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Notre Dame University before coming to Leiden in 2017.
More information
More information can be found on Dr. Schrader's website.
Associate professor
- Faculteit Archeologie
- Archaeological Sciences
- Bio-Archaeology