Vida
Immerwahr obteve seu diploma de bacharel pelo Mount Holyoke College em 1935. Um de seus tutores no Mount Holyoke foi a arqueóloga Caroline Morris Galt. Ela ganhou seu Ph.D. Do Bryn Mawr College, em 1943, com uma dissertação intitulada "O estilo pictórico micênico de pintura de vaso no século XIII a.C."
Ela foi casada com Henry Rudolph Immerwahr de 1944 até sua morte. Ela atuou como membro do corpo docente em clássicos e história da arte na Universidade da Carolina do Norte em Chapel Hill.
Em 2021, a Escola Americana de Estudos Clássicos em Atenas nomeou uma suíte em homenagem a ela e ao marido.
Bolsa de estudo
1990. Aegean painting in the Bronze Age. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.2004. Sara Anderson Immerwahr and Anne Proctor Chapin. Charis: essays in honor of Sara A. Immerwahr. Princeton NJ: American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
Alunos
1972. Gesell, Geraldine C. The Archaeological Evidence for the Minoan House Cult and its Survival in Iron Age Crete. Ph.D., Department of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.1974. Cross, Toni Marie. Bronze Tripods and Related Stands in the Eastern Mediterranean from the Twelfth Through Seventh Centuries BC. Ph.D., Department of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.1975. Mattusch, Carol C. Casting Techniques of Greek Bronze Sculpture: Foundries and Foundry Remains from the Athenian Agora with Reference to Other Ancient Sources. Ph.D., Department of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.1981. Haskell, Halford W. The Coarse Ware Stirrup Jars of Crete and the Cyclades. Ph.D., Department of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.1981. Sutton, Robert F. The Interaction Between Men and Women Portrayed on Attic Red-figure Pottery. Ph.D., Department of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
