Hon. Secretary
I am Senior Lecturer in Historical Archaeology at the University of Exeter, where I moved in 2013 from the University of Vienna.
I am an archaeologist with two principal fields of interest, the study of the early Middle Ages in Europe and beyond (c. 400–1100 CE), and the archaeometric and experimental analysis of pottery from various geographical and chronological backgrounds. I have studied and worked in archaeology and archaeological science in various countries, including the United Kingdom, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and Hungary.
I have been PI of the recent Leverhulme Trust-funded project ‘Glass Networks: Tracing Early Medieval Long-Distance Trade, c. 800–1000 CE’, and have since 2018 led a fieldwork-based enquiry into post-Roman to medieval landscape transformations in the Erlauf Valley, Austria. My earlier research has included the study of élite settlements in central Europe from the 9th and 10th centuries CE, with a particular focus on connections to the Carolingian and Byzantine worlds; the investigation of aspects of the archaeology of the Avar Khaganate and its relation to former Roman sites; as well as the examination of connections between the production technology of early medieval ceramic artefacts and the identity of their producers/users.
I co-edited, with Neil Christie, the volume Fortified Settlements in Early Medieval Europe: Defended Communities of the 8th–10th Centuries (Oxford: Oxbow, 2016)
Medieval Settlement Research Group 