

Email: wileytr@bc.edu
ORCID
Atlantic Worlds I
Latin America in the World II
Europe in the World I
Early Medieval Britain
Landscape History
Environmental History
Estuaries and Waterways
Frontiers and Borderlands
My research focuses on estuary landscapes in modern-day southern Scotland in the tumultuous fourth through eighth centuries CE. I work at the intersection between environmental and landscape history, and am interested in how communities were constructing new meaningful landscapes out of their surroundings. I also look at the modern reception of the period, and how more modern concepts of periphery, the frontier, and identity affect our approaches to our early medieval subjects.
鈥淚nter Duo Maria鈥: Rethinking Early Medieval Settlement in the Forth-Clyde Zone Through an Environmental Lens鈥 (2024 Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, New Orleans)
鈥淎nchoring the Peripheral: Stone and the Frontier Landscape of the Fifth to Eighth Century Lothians, Scotland鈥 (2023 European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting, Belfast, UK)
鈥溾橳wo Peoples Across the Seas鈥: Across the Fourth Frontier in the 5th-7th Centuries" (2023 International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI)
鈥淐iting Caesar: Remembering Rome in the Landscape of the Early Medieval Lothians, Scotland鈥 (2nd Place Paper Prize, 2023 Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies, Cambridge, MA)
鈥溾橴nder Imperium of the Angles鈥: Building, Confirming, and Losing Claims on the Northumbrian Frontiers at Abercorn and Lindsey, 671-685 CE鈥 (2022 International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK)
鈥淚rish Monks and a Pictish Queen: The Complex Religious Landscape of Eigg鈥 (2021 Comhfhios Irish Studies Conference, Chestnut Hill, MA)
鈥淩eal and Imagined Frontiers in Seventh-Century North Britain鈥 (New Research Forum, 2021 Haskins Society Conference, Virtual)