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
- Chiappa O. & Schrader S.A. (2025), The Effects of Urban Living on Child, Infant, and Maternal Health: A Comparative Study of Linear Enamel Hypoplasia Between Two Dutch Postmedieval Populations, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology : .
- Carballo-Pérez J., Matić U., Hall R., Tyson Smith S. & Schrader S.A. (2025), Tumplines, baskets, and heavy burden? Interdisciplinary approach to load carrying in Bronze Age Abu Fatima, Sudan, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 77: 101652.
- Schrader S.A., Buzon M., Maggart E., Jenkins A. & Tyson Smith S. (2025), Daily Life in a New Kingdom fortress town in Nubia: A reexamination of physical activity at Tombos, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology : .
- Casna M. & Schrader S.A. (2024), The urban sea: cribra orbitalia, porotic hyperostosis, linear enamel hypoplasia, and sinusitis in three diachronic urban sites from the Dutch province of Zeeland (1030–1800 CE), International Journal of Osteoarchaeology : e3302.
- Casna M. & Schrader S. A. (2024), Chronic maxillary sinusitis: a comparison of osteological and CT methods of diagnosis, International Journal of Paleopathology 45: 30-34.
- Casna M., Davies-Barrett A.M. & Schrader S.A. (2024), Smoking histories: a bioarchaeological approach to tobacco consumption in two skeletal populations from the Netherlands (1300-1829 CE), Post-Medieval Archaeology 58(1): 1-13.
- Pace V., Casna M. & Schrader S.A. (2024), Using computed tomography to diagnose chronic frontal sinusitis in the skeletal remains of a post-medieval Dutch rural community (AD 1829–1866), Journal of Archaeological Science 170: 106041.
- Casna M., Davies-Barrett A.M. & Schrader S.A. (2024), Exploring the impact of tobacco consumption on the respiratory health of two Dutch skeletal populations (1300–1829 CE), World Archaeology : 1-18.
- Schrader S.A., Fushiya T., Saad M. & Mohamed E.H.A. (2024), Decolonizing dioarchaeology in Sudan, Journal of African Archaeology 22(1-2): 12-28.
- Niu Y. & Schrader S.A. (2024), Social inequality and body mass differences in two post-Medieval Dutch populations, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 34(5): e3320.
- Schrader S.A. & Buzon M. (2024), Isotopic and Skeletal Approaches to Diet and Mobility in Ancient Nubia. In: Budka J. & Lemos R. (Eds.), Landscape and Resource Management in Bronze Age Nubia: Archaeological Perspectives on the Exploration of Natural Resources and the Circulation of Commodities in the Middle Nile. Contributions to the Archaeology of Egypt, Nubia and the Levant no. 17. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. 159-172.
- Horáčková L., Sheers A.J. & Schrader S. (2024), Skeletal Remains. In: Raven M.J. (Ed.), Five New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara. Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities no. 31. Leiden: Sidestone Press. 373-404.
- Bartholdy B.P. & Schrader S.A. (2024), Patterns of Linear Enamel Hypoplasia: Limitations and Recommendations for Analysis. 24th European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, Leiden. 21 August 2024 - 24 August 2024. [conference poster].
- Casna M., Schats R., Hoogland M.L.P. & Schrader S.A. (2023), A distant city: Assessing the impact of Dutch socioeconomic developments on urban and rural health using respiratory disease as a proxy, International Journal of Paleopathology 42: 34-45.
- Olszewski J., Hall R.A., Kootker L.M., Oldham N.J., Layfield R., Shaw B., Derksen L., Manders M.R., Hart T. & Schrader S.A. (2023), Osteological, multi-isotope and proteomic analysis of poorly-preserved human remains from a Dutch East India Company burial ground in South Africa, Scientific Reports 13: 14666.
- Schrader S.A. Carballo Pérez J. (2023), Special issue adaptive tools for resilient bones: biostatistical approaches to past physical activity in osteoarchaeology, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 33(3): 381-388.
- Shaw B., Foggin S., Hamilton-Stanley P., Barlow A., Pickard C., Fibiger L., Oldham N., Tighe P., Kootker L.M. & Schrader S. Layfield R. (2023), Antibody-based sex determination of human skeletal remains, iScience 26(11): 108191.
- Pas S. van der & Schrader S.A. (2023), Toward standardization of statistical reporting in studies on entheseal changes, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 33(3): 475-478.
- Carballo Pérez J. & Schrader S.A. (2023), Embodied labors during the state formation of Egypt and Nubia (ca. 4800-1750 BCE): Elucidating transformations in behavioral patterns with entheseal changes, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 33(3): 444-460.
- Cheverko C.M., Schrader S.A., Torres C.M., Pestle W.J. & Hubbe M. (2023), Emerging inequality in the San Pedro de Atacama oases (Chile): an investigation of entheseal patterns using ANCOVA and factorial ANOVA, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 33(3): 402-418.
- Gilmour R.J., Mansukoski L. & Schrader S.A. (2023), Injury, disease, and recovery: Skeletal adaptations to immobility and impairment. In: Hirst C.S., Gilmour R.J., Plomp K.A. & Cardoso F.A. (Eds.), Behaviour in our bones: how human behaviour influences skeletal morphology: Elsevier. 281-307.
- Lamer M., Veselka B., Schrader S.A., Hoogland M. & Brickley M.B. (2023), Precarious adolescence: Adolescent rickets and anterior sacral angulation in two Dutch skeletal collections from the 18th–19th centuries, International Journal of Paleopathology 40: 63-69.
- Dekker J., Larson T., Tzvetkov J., Harvey V.L., Dowle A., Hagan R., Genever P., Schrader S.A., Soressi M.A. & Hendy J. (2023), Spatial analysis of the ancient proteome of archeological teeth using mass spectrometry imaging, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 37(8): e9486.
- Sluis I.F. Bartholdy B.P. Hoogland M.L. Schrader S.A. (2022), Age estimation using vertebral bone spurs: testing the efficacy of three methods on a European population, Forensic Science International: Reports 6: 100301.
- Schrader S.A. (2022), The embodiment of colonial strategy: Osteoarthritis in ancient Nubia, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 32(4): 746-758.
- Liagre E., Hoogland M.L.P. & Schrader S.A. (2022), It runs in the family: kinship analysis using foot anomalies in the cemetery of Middenbeemster (Netherlands, 17th to 19th century), International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 32(4): 769-782.
- Casna M. & Schrader S.A. (2022), Chronic maxillary sinusitis: a comparison of osteological and radiological methods of diagnosis. 23rd European Meeting of Paleopathology Association, Vilnius. 25 August 2022 - 29 August 2022. [conference poster].
- Casna M & Schrader S.A. (2022), Urban beings: a bioarchaeological approach to socioeconomic status, cribra orbitalia, porotic hyperostosis, linear enamel hypoplasia, and sinusitis in the early-modern Northern Low Countries (A.D. 1626–1850), Bioarchaeology International : .
- Casna M. & Schrader S.A. (2021), In one ear and out the nose: Investigating correlation between otitis media and chronic maxillary sinusitis in a post-medieval population from the Netherlands (1500-1850 AD). 48th Annual North American Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, Online. 6 April 2021 - 23 April 2021. [conference poster].
- Casna M., Burrell C. L., Schats R., Hoogland M. L. P. & Schrader S. A. (2021), Urbanization and respiratory stress in the Northern Low Countries: a comparative study of chronic maxillary sinusitis in two early modern sites from the Netherlands (AD 1626–1866), International Journal of Osteoarchaeology : .
- Schrader S. & Smith S.T. (2021), The Archaeology of the Kerma Culture. In: , Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History .
- Casna M. & Schrader S. A. (2021), Being in the city: a bioarchaeological approach to socioeconomic status, stress markers, and sinusitis in three early-modern Dutch towns (1626-1850 AD).
- Bartholdy B.P., Sandoval E., Hoogland M.L.P. & Schrader S.A. (2020), Getting rid of dichotomous sex estimations: why logistic regression should be preferred over discriminant function analysis, Journal of Forensic Sciences 65(5): 1685-1691.
- Schrader S. & Torres-Rouff C. (2020), Embodying Bioarchaeology: Theory and Practice. In: Cheverko C., Prince-Buitenhuys J. & Hubbe M. (Eds.), Theoretical Approaches in Bioarchaeology: Routledge.
- Schrader S.A. & Torres-Rouff C. (2020), Embodying bioarchaeology: theory and practice. In: C. Cheverko J. Prince-Buitenhuys M. Hubbe (Ed.), Theoretical approaches in bioarchaeology: Taylor & Francis.
- Del Vesco P., Greco C., Müller M., Staring N.T.B., Weiss L.V., Gasperini V., Rossi C., Salvador A., Scheers A.J., Schrader S.A. & Warner N. (2019), Current Research of the Leiden-Turin Archaeological Mission in Saqqara. A Preliminary Report on the 2018 Season, Rivista del Museo Egizio 3: 1-25.
- Schrader S.A., Buzon M.R., Corcoran L. & Simonetti A. (2019), Intraregional 87Sr/86Sr variation in Nubia: New insights from the Third Cataract, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 24: 373-379.
- Schrader S.A. (2019), Activity, diet, and social practice: addressing everyday life in human skeletal remains. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
- Buzon M.R., Schrader S.A. & Bowen G.J. (2019), Isotopic approaches to mobility in Northern Africa: a bioarchaeological examination of Egyptian/Nubian interaction in the Nile Valley. In: Mattingly M. (Ed.), Burials, migration and identity in the ancient Sahara and beyond: Cambridge University Press. 223-246.
- Casna M., Schrader S.A., Burrell C.L., Schats R. & Hoogland M. (2019), A bioarchaeological study of chronic maxillary sinusitis and respiratory health in two Post-Medieval populations from the Netherlands. 21st Annual BABAO Conference, London. 13 September 2019 - 15 September 2019. [conference poster].
- Schrader S.A., Buzon M. & Smith S.T. (2018), Colonial-indigene interaction in Ancient Nubia: an integrative analysis of diet, health, and the material record, Bioarchaeology of the Near East 12: 1-32.
- Schrader S.A., Smith S.T., Olsen S. & Buzon M. (2018), Symbolic equids and Kushite State formation: A horse burial at Tombos, Antiquity 92(362): 383-397.
- Schrader S.A. & Buzon M.R. (2017), Everyday Life after Collapse: a Bioarchaeological Examination of Entheseal Change and Accidental Injury in Postcolonial Nubia, Bioarchaeology International 1(1-2): 19-34.
- Schrader S.A. & Smith S.T. (2017), Socializing violence: Interpersonal violence recidivism at Abu Fatima (Sudan). In: Tegtmeyer C. & Martin D. (Eds.), Broken Bodies: Bioarchaeological and Forensic Approaches to Accumulative Trauma and Violence. Latham: Lexington Books. 27-42.
- Schrader S.A. (2015), Elucidating inequality in Nubia : an examination of entheseal changes at Kerma (Sudan), American Journal of Physical Anthropology 156: 192-202.
- Schrader S.A., Buzon M. & Irish J. (2014), Illuminating the Nubian ‘Dark Age’: A bioarchaeological analysis of dental non-metric traits during the Napatan Period, HOMO: Journal of Comparative Human Biology 65: 267-280.
- Schrader S.A. (2013), Bioarchaeology of the Everyday: Analysis of Diet and Activity Patterns in the Nile Valley . West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University.
- Schrader S.A. (2012), Activity Patterns in New Kingdom Nubia: An Examination of Entheseal Remodeling and Osteoarthritis at Tombos, American Journal of Physical Anthropology 149: 60-70.
- Mickleburgh H., Baetsen W.A., Dijkstra A., Edens E., Eeltink N., Fricke F., de Jonge L., Kootker L.M., Schats R., Schrader S. & Seferidou E., NVFA Ethical Guidelines on Human Remains. [web article].