Elizabeth Fitzpatrick

Biography

Elizabeth FitzPatrick is a personal professor of historical archaeology at the School of Geography and Archaeology, NUI Galway, a director of the Discovery Programme and a fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. She works at the interface of cultural landscape and text and has a particular interest in complex thinking between disciplines. Her research and publications address human identity and cultural practice in the medieval and early modern Irish landscape, with a particular focus on Gaelic peoples AD c.800-1600. She has published widely on medieval assembly places, settlements and lifeways, land-use practices, topographies of power, territorial boundaries, and landscape identity, in Gaelic polities. 

Research Interest

Professor Elizabeth FitzPatrick's research concerns historical archaeology, with a focus on the archaeology and landscape history of medieval Gaelic peoples of north Atlantic Europe, especially place-making and settlement, landscape biography and topographies and archaeologies of power in Ireland.