

Email: wileytr@bc.edu
ORCID 0000-0001-9355-3242
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.
“Inter Duo Maria”: Rethinking Early Medieval Settlement in the Forth-Clyde Zone Through an Environmental Lens” (2024 Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, New Orleans)
“Anchoring the Peripheral: Stone and the Frontier Landscape of the Fifth to Eighth Century Lothians, Scotland” (2023 European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting, Belfast, UK)
“’Two Peoples Across the Seas’: Across the Fourth Frontier in the 5th-7th Centuries" (2023 International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI)
“Citing Caesar: Remembering Rome in the Landscape of the Early Medieval Lothians, Scotland” (2nd Place Paper Prize, 2023 Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies, Cambridge, MA)
“’Under Imperium of the Angles’: Building, Confirming, and Losing Claims on the Northumbrian Frontiers at Abercorn and Lindsey, 671-685 CE” (2022 International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK)
“Irish Monks and a Pictish Queen: The Complex Religious Landscape of Eigg” (2021 Comhfhios Irish Studies Conference, Chestnut Hill, MA)
“Real and Imagined Frontiers in Seventh-Century North Britain” (New Research Forum, 2021 Haskins Society Conference, Virtual)