Curriculum Vita for Dr. Ryan Lash

[email protected] Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Anthropology University of Notre Dame 296 Corbett Family Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556

Education Date School Degree 9/12 – Present Dept. of Anthropology Ph.D. 2019 Northwestern University

8/16-12/16 Affiliated student scholar N/A Department of Archaeology National University of Ireland, Galway

10/10 – 6/11 University of Cambridge MPhil 2011 Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Gates Cambridge Scholar

10/08 – 6/08 New College, University of Oxford N/A Study Abroad Program

8/06 – 5/10 University of Notre Dame B. A. 2010 Summa Cum Laude Majors: Honors Medieval Studies & Anthropology

9/02 – 6/06 Peters Township High School High School Diploma McMurray, PA USA

Recent Funding Awards 9/2017-6/2018 Franke Graduate Fellowship, Alice Kaplan Institute for Humanities, Northwestern University. Awarded to ‘the most accomplished fourth and fifth year doctoral students in the humanities.’(cost of tuition, stipend, and $2,000 research funds, Total: $84,000)

6/2016-6/2018 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant. The Role of Heritage in Community Organization. Inishark, Ireland. ($24,835)

2014-7 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Awarded in 2012, active fall 2014-2017 ($38,000 per annum stipend, plus cost of tuition to Northwestern University, Total: $270,717)

2014 The Graduate School at Northwestern University Graduate Research Grant. Awarded in June 2014 to support preliminary dissertation fieldwork ($2,940).

2014 Northwestern University Department of Anthropology Fan Foster Award. Awarded in June 2014 to support preliminary dissertation fieldwork ($1,100).

2012-3 Northwestern University, Department of Anthropology, Graduate Research Fellowship ($22,428 per annum stipend plus cost of tuition to Northwestern University, Total: $224,001).

2010-11 Gates Cambridge Scholarship: full tuition cost and maintenance allowance for postgraduate study at University of Cambridge; selected on the basis of intellectual ability, leadership capacity, and desire to share knowledge to improve the lives of others. First Gates Scholarship awarded to Notre Dame undergraduate student (£22,544).

Publications Book In prep. Lash, R. and I. Kuijt. Faith Along the Water: The Monastic Seascape of Connemara, Ireland (600–1300 CE). Target publication 2020.

2015 Kuijt, I., R. Lash, K. Shakour, T. Burke, and W. Donaruma. 2014. Island Places, Island Lives: An Illustrated Guide to the Heritage of Inishbofin and Inishark. Dublin: Wordwell.

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

In prep. Kuijt, I. and R. Lash. Island Kingship in 19th-century Ireland: Origins, Development, and Legacy. In preparation for International Journal of Historical Archaeology.

2018 Lash, R. Enchantments of Stone: Confronting other-than-human Agency in Irish Pilgrimage Practices. The Journal of Social Archaeology 18(3): 284–305. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1469605318762816

2018 Lash, R. Pebbles and peregrinatio: The Taskscapes of Medieval Devotion on Inishark Island, Ireland. Medieval Archaeology 62(1): 82–103. https://doi.org/10.1080/00766097.2018.1451585

2018 Lash, R, I. Kuijt, E. Alonzi, M. Chesson, and T. Burke. “Differing in Status, but One in Spirit”: Sacred Space and Social Diversity at Island Monasteries in Connemara, Ireland. Antiquity 92(362): 437–55. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.13

2017 Goodale, N. M. Bassett, D.G. Bailey, R. Lash & I. Kuijt. Early Medieval Seascapes in Western Ireland and the Geochemistry of Ecclesiastical Cross Stones. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.06.015.

2010 Kuijt, I, R. Lash, M. Gibbons, J. Higgins, N. Goodale, and J. O’Neill. 2010. Reconsidering Early Medieval seascapes: New Insights from Western Ireland. Journal of Irish Archaeology 19: 51-70. Peer Reviewed Book Chapters In press. Lash, R. Leo on the Margins? Reform, Romanesque and the Island Monastery on Inishark Island, Ireland. In R. Plant (ed.) Romanesque Saints and Shrines: Proceedings of the 2016 British Archaeological Association Romanesque Conference. Target Publication 2019.

In press. Lash, R. Movement, Intersubjectivity, and Archaeology – Insights from Western Ireland. In J. Day and R. Skeates (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Sensory Archaeology. London: Routledge. Accepted for publication: May 2017. Target publication: 2019.

2016 Lash, R., K. Strutt, and M. Johnson. Sport, Labour, and Social Contest in the Knole Landscape. In M. Johnson (ed.) Lived Experience in the Later Middle Ages: Studies of Bodiam and Other Elite Landscapes in South-eastern England. Oxford: Oxbow.

2013 Lash, R. Saints in the Seascape: Interconnection, Competition, and Cultural reproduction at Medieval Ecclesiastical Communities in Northwestern Connemara. Newberry Essays in Medieval and Early Modern Studies Vol.7. Selected Proceedings of the Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies 2013 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, pp. 17-34. Published online: http://www.newberry.org/sites/default/files/textpage-attachments/2013Proceedings.pdf.

Theses 2019 Island Taskscapes: Heritage, Ritual, and Sustainability on Inishark and Inishbofin, Ireland. Unpublished PhD dissertation, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.

2011 ‘eald enta geweorc’: Mounds, the Pagan Past and the Potent Dead in Anglo-Saxon England. Unpublished MPhil thesis, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

2010 Negotiating 'laf': The Problem of the 'Useless' Treasure in Beowulf and Old English Poetry. Unpublished BA thesis, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA.

Conference Symposia Organized 2019 Symposia co-organizer: The Affordances of Seascapes: (Re)situating Island Monasteries. Two- day lab to explore new theoretical approaches and establish new research agenda for early medieval island monasticism. IONA: Early Medieval Studies on the Islands of the North Atlantic, transformative networks, skills, theories, and methods for the future of the field. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada. April 12–3, 2019. (with Adrián Maldonado and David Petts).

2014 Symposia co-organizer and chair: New Research in Medieval Archaeology, Poster Symposia at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Austin, Texas. April 2014 (with E. Alonzi).

Conference Presentations

2018 In the Footsteps of Leo: New Evidence for Monasticism and Pilgrimage on Inishark Island, Co. Galway. The Oidhreacht Oileán na h-Eireann – Ireland’s Island Heritage Conference. June 23– 24, 2018 (with Ian Kuijt).

2018 Movement, Intersubjectivity, and Sensory Archaeology – Insights from Western Ireland. Paper presented at the organized session ‘Archaeology and the Senses’ at the Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. April 2018.

2018 Local ‘Patterns’, Global Currents – The Changing Face of Pilgrimage Traditions in Rural Western Ireland, c. 1800-present. Paper presented at the Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, New Orleans, January 2018.

2017 Taskscapes of Pebbles and Pilgrims: ‘Natural’ Stuff in Irish Pilgrimage Traditions. Paper presented at ‘Stuff and Nonsense? Theory and Medieval Material Culture’ session at the Theoretical Archaeology Group in Cardiff, Wales, December 2017.

2017 Anti-immigrant Policy and Diasporic Pride: Archaeology’s Role in Narratives of Irish American Experience. Paper presented at ‘The Power of Community Archaeology in the ‘Post-Truth Era’ session at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, DC, November 2017 (with K. Shakour).

2017 Pilgrims and Pebbles: The Taskscapes of Veneration on Inishark, Co. Galway. Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, Canada. March 2017.

2016 Pilgrims and Pebbles: The Materiality of Movement on Inishark. Irish Conference of Medievalists. Maynooth University, Ireland. June 30 – July 2, 2016.

2016 New Geography and Old Materiality: Church Reform and the Cult of St Leo on Inishark, Co. Galway. British Archaeological Association: Romanesque Saints, Shrines and Pilgrimage. University of Oxford, UK. April 4-8, 2016.

2016 A Papal Saint on the Edge of the World? 12th-century Reform and the Cult of Saint Leo on Inishark, Co. Galway. American Conference for Irish Studies. University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN. March 30 – April 3, 2016.

2016 The Changing Role of Kings on Inishark, Co. Galway, in the 19th and 20th centuries. American Conference for Irish Studies. University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN. March 30-April 3, 2016.

2016 Creative Continuity: Tradition and Community Reproduction on the Margins of Western Ireland. Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology. Washington, D.C., January 6-9, 2016.

2015 The Heritage of Early Christian Ritual on Inishark, Co. Galway, Ireland. 36th Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. October 7-9, 2015.

2015 A Pilgrimage Lost and Found: Cult and Cultivation on Inishark c. 950-1960. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Cultural Landscapes of the Irish Coast Symposium, San Francisco, California, April 2015. (w/ E. Alonzi, T. O’Hagan, A. Wildenhain, and F. Myles).

2014 Necessary Landscapes: Examining Sustainability in Two Marginal Environments in the North Atlantic. Paper presented at the ‘Producing an Anthropology of Sustainability across Subfields’ session at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, DC, December 2014 (with K. Catlin).

2014 Patterns of Pilgrimage and Political Economy along the Northwestern Coast of Connemara. Presented at the panel ‘Medieval pilgrims and patterns: preliminary findings from the Cultural Landscapes of the Irish Coast Project’ at the Irish Conference of Medievalists, University College Dublin, July 2014.

2014 Pilgrimage and the Production of Social Affinity and Difference in Early Medieval Ireland. Presented at a special session – ‘Anthropological Approaches to Medieval Archaeology’ – at the International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2014.

2014 Mapping Ritual and Economic Communities in Early Medieval Connemara, Ireland. Poster to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. New Research in Medieval Archaeology Poster Symposium. Austin, Texas, April 2014 (with I. Kuijt).

2013 The Tracks of Leo across Sea and Stone: Pilgrimage, the Built Environment, and Cultural Reproduction at the Early Medieval Monastery of Inishark, Co. Galway, Ireland. Paper presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2013.

2013 Saints in the Seascape: Interconnection, Competition, and Cultural Reproduction at Medieval Ecclesiastical Communities in Northwestern Connemara. Paper presented at The Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies 2013 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference. One of the twelve (of forty-eight total presenters) selected for publication in the online proceedings.

2012 A Vita in Stone: The Archaeology of St. Leo’s Cult, Inishark, Ireland. Paper presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan. May 2012 (with I. Kuijt, J. O’Neill, T. O’Hagan, E. Alonzi, and M.Chesson)

2012 'on hwelcum hlæwa?': Mounds and the Past in Anglo-Saxon England. Paper presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Michigan. May 2012.

2012 Pilgrims Progress: Settlement Variety in Connemara’s Early Medieval Seascape. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Memphis, Tennessee. April 2012 (with I. Kuijt, A. Nauman, J. O’Neill and T. O’Hagan).

2011 'on hwelcum hlæwa?': The Trouble with Barrow Mounds in Christian Anglo-Saxon England. Paper delivered at the 2011 Cambridge, Oxford and London Symposium of Old Norse, Old English and Latin (COLSONOEL). Oxford, UK, May 2011.

2011 Raiders of the Lost Shark: Rediscovering St Leo's Chapel, Inishark, Co. Galway. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Poster exhibition. Sacramento, California, April 2011 (with I. Kuijt, J. O'Neill, and T. O'Hagen)

2011 Riddle Me a Revenant?: 'eorðscræfe' in The Wife's Lament. Presented at the Gates Cambridge Scholars Society Internal Symposium. Cambridge, UK, March 2011.

2010 Faith along the Water: New Understandings of the Archaeology of 5-9th century Christianity along western Connemara. Presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2010 (with I. Kuijt).

2010 The Early Christian Landscape of Inisairc. Poster co-presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology conference. Poster exhibition. St. Louis, Missouri, April 2010 (with I. Kuijt, T. O’Hagan, J. O’Neill)

2010 The Archaeology of Morefield Canyon: An Ancestral Puebloan ‘Community Center’. Poster co- presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Poster exhibition. St. Louis, Missouri, April 2010 (with C. Reed and R. K. Bocinsky).

2009 The Early Christian Landscape of Western Connemara. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Historical Archaeologies of Christianity, Capitalism, and Collaboration, Philidelphia, Pennsylvania, December 2009 (with I. Kuit and N. Goodale)

2008 Tempos of Life: Changing settlement practices on Omey Island, Co. Galway, Ireland. Poster co- presented at the 6th World Archaeological Congress, Dublin, Ireland, July 2008 (With A. Nauman, N. Goodale, J. O’Neill, L. Moore-Shay)

2008 Omey Island Survey. Poster co-presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Poster exhibition, Vancouver, Canada, March 2008 (with I. Kuijt, N. Goodale, A. Nauman, L. Moore-Shay, F. Vento).

2007 Burial Practices and the Black Death in Ireland. Poster presented at Bridging the Atlantic: Undergraduate Perspectives on Irish-American Heritage. Poster exhibition, University of Notre Dame, October 2007 (with C. Hofman).

Public Lectures 2019 Island Taskscapes: Ritual and Endurance on Inishark Island, Ireland. New Directions in Anthropology: Northwestern Graduate Student Colloquium. Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, March 1, 2019.

2018 Enchantments of Stone: Other-than-human forces in Irish Pilgrimage Traditions. Franke Future Directions Forum. Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Northwestern University, April 20, 2018.

2016 Centers on the Edge – The Spread of Christianity to the Fringes of Europe (with Tommy Burke). INISH Festival – Island Conversations, Inishbofin. June 2016.

2015 Creative Continuity – Tradition and Sustainability on Inishark (with Tommy Burke and Elise Alonzi). INISH Festival – Island Conversations, Inishbofin. June 2015.

2014 Hunting the Park at Knole. Presented at a Knole House, Kent during the Elite Landscapes in Southeastern England Project Symposium. July 2014.

Invited Presentations 2016 The Cult of St Leo on Inishark: Its Early Medieval and Modern Taskscape Settings. Department of Archaeology. National University of Ireland Galway. December 2016.

2010 The Lost Church: Research Results of the 2010 Cultural Landscapes of the Irish Coast Project. Presentation to the University of Notre Dame Ireland Council. Notre Dame, October 2010.

Research Reports 2017 The Cultural Landscapes of the Irish Coast Project’s Excavations on the Clochán Leo Complex and ‘Western Enclosure’, Inishark, Ireland, 2017. Preliminary excavation and analytic report on file with the Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame (with I. Kuijt)

2016 The Cultural Landscapes of the Irish Coast Project’s Excavations on the Eastern Enclosure, Inishark, Ireland, 2016. Preliminary excavation and analytic report on file with the Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame (with I. Kuijt).

2016 The Cultural Landscapes of the Irish Coast Project’s Survey and Erosion assessment of the Historic Graveyard, Inishark, Ireland. Report on file with the Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame (with I. Kuijt).

2015 The Cultural Landscapes of the Irish Coast Project’s Excavations on House 99 and Leaba Leo, Inishark, Ireland 2015. Preliminary excavation and analytic report on file with the Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame (with F. Myles and M. Conway).

2014 Lash, R. (ed.) The Cultural Landscape of the Irish Coast’s Excavations on Inishark and Inishgort 2010-2012. Preliminary excavation and analytic report on file with the Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame. (with I. Kuijt, F. Myles, J. O’Neill, T. O’Hagan, M. Chesson, and E. Alonzi).

2013 Lash, R. Knole House and its Landscape: A Consideration of the Grey Literature in Light of Ongoing Research. Report on file with Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University.

2013 2013 Survey at Portdoon Inisturk, Co. Mayo. Survey report on file with the Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame.

2013 2010-3 Survey of St Colman’s Abbey, Inishbofin, Co. Galway. Survey report on file with the Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame.

2011 Lash, R. (ed.) Life along the Water: Report on the Archaeological Survey of Island Settlements in Coastal Connemara. Report on file with the Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame (with I. Kuijt, J. Nauman, N. Goodale, and J. O’Neill).

Teaching Experience at Northwestern Spring 2018: Instructor for First Year Seminar: An Anthropology of Game of Thrones • Created and taught course for Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities Franke Graduate Fellowship • First Year Seminar that introduced students to anthropological theory through an analysis of the Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire series both an imagined world and an artifact of our own society’s confrontation with cultural and bodily difference, inequality, sexual violence, and climate change. • Discussion-based seminar course designed to improve verbal, writing, and critical thinking skills among new college students.

Fall 2014, Fall 2015: Teaching Assistant for Uncovering the Past: Introduction to Archaeology • Prepared and delivered lectures and activities for two bi-weekly sections of 15-20 students. • Evaluated bi-weekly reading responses. • Developed student writing, thinking, and test-taking skills with detailed feedback.

Archaeology Field and Lab Experience 2007-present: Cultural Landscapes of the Irish Coast Project (Directed by Dr. Ian Kuijt, University of Notre Dame) Connemara, Ireland. • Senior Project Member, Excavation Supervisor, and Adviser to Undergraduate Project Members • Pedestrian survey, architectural survey, and excavation of prehistoric, medieval, and 18th-19th-century remains on a number of islands off the coast of Connemara • Recorded sites using site description forms, mobile GPS, photography, and profile and plan sketches • C-14 and portable XRF sampling • Collaborated with locals in excavation and documentation of local heritage • Produced power-point presentations and posters to display preliminary findings at community heritage events in Clifden (2009) and Inishbofin (2009; 2010; 2011; 2012; 2013). • Produced preliminary survey reports and excavation reports for submission to the National Monuments Service

2013-2014: Elite Landscapes in Southeastern England (Directed by Dr. Matthew Johnson, Northwestern University) Kent and Sussex, England . Graduate student researcher and adviser to undergraduate field school students . Earth resistivity and GPS topographic survey at Knole Park, Kent . Collated and summarized unpublished archaeological reports stored in the archives of various National Trust Properties, including Knole House, Scotney Castle, and Ightham Moat, Kent

2009: Village Ecodynamics Project (Directed by Dr. Donna Glowacki, University of Notre Dame) Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado • Member of survey team documenting Ancestral Puebloan sites in Morefield Canyon, Mesa Verde • Completed site description forms; identified and tallied pottery fragments; mapped site data points with mobile GPS unit; photographed sites; processed and digitized data for reports submitted to the National Parks Service

Scholarships, Grants, Awards from the University of Notre Dame 2010 The Michel Prize: awarded by Notre Dame’s Medieval Institute in recognition of the best senior essay on a medieval topic submitted by a graduating senior, for ‘Materialism and the Problem of the ‘Useless’ Treasure in Beowulf’ ($50)

2010 The Reverend Raymond W. Murray, C.S.C. Award in Anthropology: the department’s top award to an outstanding senior majoring in anthropology ($50)

2010 The Robert DaMatta Excellence in Anthropology Award: awarded for achieving a 4.0 grade point average in the anthropology major

2010 Lambda Alpha: National Collegiate Honors Society for Anthropology

2010 Phi Beta Kappa Society: Recognizes the most outstanding arts and sciences students at America’s leading colleges and universities

2009 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Award, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts at the University of Notre Dame: a competitive undergraduate grant awarded for travel and participation in international research. ($1,500)

2008 Nanovic Institute Undergraduate Research Fellowship, University of Notre Dame. Constructing Identity from the Ground Up: Re-approaching the Medieval Castle. Grant funded survey of medieval castles built during colonial initiatives in Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and England ($3, 392).

2008 Two Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Award, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts at the University of Notre Dame: a competitive undergraduate grant awarded for travel and participation in international research. ($3,000 total)

2007 Keough-Naughton Insitute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame. Educational grant for the Archaeology of Ireland class involving an intensive week-long tour of Irish archaeological sites from October 21-26 2007 ($1,500).

2007 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Award, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts at the University of Notre Dame: a competitive undergraduate grant awarded for travel and participation in international research. ($1,500)

Funded Research Experience at the University of Notre Dame 7/08 Nanovic Institute Funded Castle Study; Constructing Identity from the Ground Up: Re-approaching the Medieval Castle • Examination of the role of castles in identity formation in four colonial contexts in the Middle Ages • Conducted a three week survey of medieval castles in Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and England. • $3, 392 in grant support

10/07 Notre Dame Archaeology of Ireland Tour • Conducted research on various Irish archaeological sites and time periods • Participated in intensive week long tour of Irish archaeological sites from October 21-26 2007 • $1,500 in grant support

Skills Archaeological survey and excavation; archival and folklore analysis; ethnographic participant observation; working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Power-point, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premier Pro, ArcGIS. Valid Class C drivers’ license. Elementary French and Italian.

References Matthew Johnson, Ph.D Professor of Anthropology Department of Anthropology #201, 1812 Hinman Avenue Northwestern University Evanston, IL 60208 USA Tel.: 847-467-3021 Email: [email protected]

Ian Kuijt, Ph.D Professor of Anthropology Department of Anthropology University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA Tel.: 574-631-3263 Email: [email protected]

Mary Weismantel, Ph.D Professor of Anthropology Department Chair Department of Anthropology #105, 1812 Hinman Avenue Northwestern University Evanston, Il 60208 Tel.: 847-491-4822 [email protected]