Elizabeth FitzPatrick is an independent researcher and writer in historical landscape studies. She held a chair in archaeology at NUI Galway (2013-21), has been a panel member of the European Research Council (2020-21), a director of the Discovery Programme (2015-20), and archaeological editor of Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (2007-15). She is the author of Royal Inauguration in Gaelic Ireland 1200-1600: a cultural landscape study (2004), and co-editor of Becoming and belonging in Ireland, AD c. 1200-1600: essays in identity and cultural practice (2018), and Gaelic Ireland 1250-1650: land, lordship and settlement (2001).