Ballot Archive

04 Nov 2021

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Rhiannon Comeau

Academic degrees, honours etc.

PhD (Archaeology) MA (Research Methods in Archaeology) Diploma (Field Archaeology)

Profession or occupation

Landscape archaeologists and Historian

Grounds for election

Dr Comeau is a landscape archaeologist and historian who specialises in early medieval Wales. Her research focuses on a range of themes, including: landscapes of power and assembly; agriculture; seasonal settlement; burial and cemeteries; and interdisciplinary approaches to medieval landscapes. Dr Comeau has published widely, including articles in Medieval Archaeology and Archaeologia Cambrensis, a monograph entitled Land, people and power in early medieval Wales: the cantref of Cemais in comparative perspective (published in 2020) and an edited volume, Living off the Land: Agriculture in Wales c. 400 to 1600 AD (published in 2019). She is currently co-directing the development of the new research framework for early medieval Wales, and is engaged in a number of research projects, including an analysis of all known corn-drying kilns from medieval Wales. She is a trustee and membership secretary of the Cambrian Archaeological Association and an adviser to the Dyfed Archaeological Trust.

Signatories

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