Officers and Trustees - The Scottish Medievalists

Chair: Professor Alex Woolf, University of St Andrews	Alex Woolf is the Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of St Andrews, he has degrees in Medieval History, Medieval English and Archaeology from the University of Sheffield and was awarded a doctorate by portfolio in the subject of “Politics and Identity in Early Medieval Scotland’. He has published widely on topics ranging from Roman Britain to Icelandic literature but is perhaps best known for his book From Pictland to Alba, Scotland 789-1070. He lives in the Howe of Fife.
Treasurer: Dr Kate Ash-Irisarri, University of Edinburgh	Research interests: late medieval Scottish literature, politics, historical writing, Anglo-Scottish relations, Scottish book history, theories of memory, and the history of emotions.
Secretary: Dr Neil McGuigan, University of St Andrews	Research interests: 8th to 13th centuries, political, ecclesiastical & economic history, historical writing, political mythology, regional history, inequality, the subaltern, disiecta membra. Also, the ‘earldom of Bamburgh’ and Northumbrian matters.
Dr Morvern French, Historic Environment Scotland	Research interests: late medieval and 16th century Scotland, built heritage, especially castles, material culture, and women’s history.
Dr Mark A Hall, Perth Museum & Art Gallery	Collections Officer, Perth Museum (Culture Perth & Kinross). Mark’s research interests span the whole medieval period and its material culture, early and late, with particular interests in early medieval/Pictish sculpture, the cult of saints and supernatural engagements and the archaeology of board games. Orcid iD
Dr Matthew Hammond, Victoria County History, University of Hull	Research interests: social and political history of Scotland between 1000 and 1350; charters, digital prosopography and social network analysis
Dr Lucinda H. S. Dean, University of the Highlands and Islands	Research interests cover a range of themes and methodological approaches to late medieval and early modern Scottish history including ritual, liturgy, ceremony, kingship and monarchy, material culture, gender (particularly masculinity), the life cycle (with a keen interest in youth and old age), death and funerary practices, Perth Charterhouse before and after the Reformation, lay piety and patronage (especially impact of the loss of religious foundations after the Reformation), theories around memory and community in association with space and place, and public history (with keen interest in exploring the value and potential of collaboration and co-design of research).