Sarah A. Bendall FRHistS is a senior lecturer at the Gender and Women's History Research Centre in the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences. She is a material culture historian whose research examines the roles of women in the production, trade and consumption of global commodities and fashionable consumer goods between 1500-1800. She has particular expertise in seventeenth-century dress and recreative methodologies, such as historical dress reconstruction.

Sarah was awarded her PhD from the University of Sydney. During her doctoral research she was a visiting research student at Kings College London. Prior to joining ACU, she held positions at the University of Western Australia, the University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne. She has been awarded fellowships from The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford, the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Powerhouse Museum. She was also co-investigator on the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council's Making Historical Dress Network grant (2023-5).