Mary Harlow, FSA (born 20 October 1956) is an English archaeologist and classical scholar.
Her research focuses on various aspects of Roman social history―such as age, family, dress and textiles―and their impact on the formation of ancient identity.
Her approach strongly promotes interdisciplinary methods, using source materials to accompany the study of Roman dress.
After the completion of her PhD she taught briefly at St Andrews, before joining the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity at the University of Birmingham as senior lecturer in Roman history (1995–2012).
[3] Since 2015, Harlow has been involved in the international research group ATOM (Ancient Textiles from the Orient to the Mediterranean), in collaboration with CTR and the CNRS, Paris.