Sarah Hayes is a historical archaeologist who researches quality of life and social mobility in 19th-century Victoria through everyday people's lives, homes and rubbish. As an artefact specialist, she spends much of her time in a lab with boxes of broken plates, bottles and all kinds of daily detritus from long ago. She works within the 'People, Place, Heritage' stream of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University.
Experience
2018–present
Senior research fellow, Deakin University
2016–2018
Research fellow, La Trobe University
2010–2016
Postdoctoral research fellow, La Trobe University
2009–2010
Research assistant, La Trobe University
2008–2009
Tutor, La Trobe University
Education
2009
La Trobe University, PhD
2004
La Trobe University, Bachelor of Arts (Honours)
1999
Flinders University, Bachelor of Archaeology
Publications
2017
A Golden Opportunity: Mayor Smith and Melbourne’s emergence as a global city, International Journal of Historical Archaeology
2016
Melbourne’s Waste Management History and Cesspit Formation Processes: Evidence from Little Lon, Australian Archaeology
2014
Good Taste, Fashion, Luxury: A genteel Melbourne family and their rubbish,
2014
A Doomed Business: The Material Culture of Ann Jones and the Glenrowan Inn, Australasian Historical Archaeology
2011
Amalgamation of Archaeological Assemblages: experiences from the Commonwealth Block project, Melbourne, Australian Archaeology
2011
Gentility in the Dining and Tea Service Practices of Early Colonial Melbourne's ‘Established Middle Class’, Australasian Historical Archaeology
2010
Managing the Commonwealth Block Archaeological Assemblage: an Australian case study, , Collections: A Journal for Museums and Archives Professionals
2007
Consumer Practice at Viewbank Homestead, Australasian Historical Archaeology
2005
Yorktown: the cultural landscape of the first European settlement in the North of Tasmania, The Artefact
Grants and Contracts
2015
An Archaeology of Quality of Life in Victoria’s Gold Rush Era, 1851-1880
Role:
CI
Funding Source:
Australian Research Council
2010
Suburban Archaeology: Approaching the Archaeology of the Middle Class in 19th-Century Melbourne
Role:
APD
Funding Source:
Australian Research Council
2009
A Historical Archaeology of the Commonwealth Block, 1850-1950