Janet Kay
ph.d. candidate

Education:
MA, Boston College, Medieval History
BA, Boston University, Archaeology, European History, summa cum laude
Research Interests:
Settlement and burial archaeology of the early medieval British Isles and the North Atlantic; Iron Age settlements and the process of Romanization in the British Isles; archaeological sciences and environmental studies; maritime connections and communities; patterns of local, regional, and international trade; history of disease, medicine, and science
Publications
Norse in Newfoundland: A Critical Examination of Archaeological Research at the Norse site at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland (British Archaeological Reports, International Series, 2012)
Conference Presentations
- Poster, “Neolithic Life on the Danube”, co-presented with Rebecca Mountain, Boston University Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Symposium, Fall 2009
- “The church lived in the world’: ecclesiastical and secular sites in Britain and Ireland, 500-800AD.” Presented at the annual meeting of the North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History, Friday, July 27, 2012