Great colleagues and conversations at the Future of Molecular Paleography workshop organized to close the @ercb2c project. Scientists and humanists thinking together about ways to collaborate on the study of manuscripts at the lovely Fuglsang manor house and estate in southern Denmark

Orsolya (Orshi) Czére (Scotland) -- #TeamNun Research Technical Professional (RTP) extraordinaire. Can't wait to get started studying the teeth and bone of medieval religious women to reveal what kind of food and drink they consumed and where they lived before becoming nuns. #TeamNun loves RTPs!

#TeamNun Aberdeen!

Kate Britton (Scotland) -- archaeological scientist and core member of #TeamNun. Kate uses stable isotope analysis to reconstruct past diets, movements, and environments. #TeamNun loves oxygen, strontium, nitrogen, and carbon!

Looking for a great archaeology field school experience this June? Come and break ground with us at medieval Lindores Abbey in Scotland! Earn University of St Andrews credit while studying medieval monasticism in the field! www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study-abroad...

Eir Önnu Ólafsbur (Iceland) -- undergraduate student in archaeology at the University of Iceland. Sings while digging at Kirkjubæjarklaustur with the Fornleifarannsókn: Benediktínaklaustur á Íslandi / Benedictines in Iceland team. #TeamNun loves mentoring students!

Delaney Dammeyer (Iceland) -- studies water management at Icelandic monasteries, including secular and sacred uses of the natural world. Vital part of the great excavation team investigating the life of nuns at Kirkjubæjarklaustur. Yay #TeamNun Iceland!

Katy Beebe (United States) -- hard at work reconstructing a virtual pilgrimage landscapes filled with nuns! #TeamNun loves the digital humanities!

Scott Riddell (Iceland) -- soils wizard on the Fornleifarannsókn: Benedictines in Iceland team. Key member of #TeamNun Iceland -- digging at Kirkjubærklastur, the first women's monastery in Iceland! Amazing what you can learn from soil cores! #TeamNun loves paleoecology!

Ack --- Kirkjubærjarklaustur :-)

Louisa Burnham (USA) -- Prefers religious women of the heretical sort, especially in late medieval southern Europe. Definitely #TeamNun at the core.

CJ Jones (USA) -- studies savvy religious women in Germany who used the many dimensions of liturgy to negotiate gendered and religious structures of authority and to create and perform communal identity. #TeamNun loves the sights, sounds, and smells of liturgy!

Lára Janusdóttir (Iceland) -- MA student in Archaeology at \ U of Iceland and mastermind of public-facing aspects of the dig at Kirkjubæjarklaustur -- the first women's monastery in Iceland -- as part of the Benedictines in Iceland project. #TeamNun loves impact and public engagement!

...who has taught us so much about the sensory, physical, and affective experiences that art can suggest and provoke! Go Yale History of Art chapter of #TeamNun!

Workshop: Prøvetagning til Laboratorieanalyse i Arkæologi &  Palynologikursus (Field Sampling for Laboratory Analysis in Archaeology & Palynology Course) 30. til 31. Januar 2024 på Moesgaard Museum Sponsored by IPERION-HS and the Carlsberg Foundation (ArcHives)

Miriam Shadis (USA) -- framed by the volumes of charters she expertly scours for the voices of royal women (and hundreds of nuns!) in the central Middle Ages! #TeamNun loves medieval charters!

Anne E. Lester (USA) -- whose important early-career work on Cistercian nuns has led her ever deeper into the intertwining religious and social contexts of medieval France and beyond. #TeamNun thrives at the intersection of textual and material evidence!

Tina Warinner (USA) -- Brilliant biomolecular archaeologist who specializes in the prehistory of human foods and the evolution of the microbiome. Founding sister of #TeamNun.

A PhD in Medieval History at St Andrews? I particularly welcome projects at the intersection of Monastic History and Archaeological Science -- apply by 8 December for funded studentships! www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/pros...

Sally Mubarak (Scotland) -- PhD student in Classics at St Andrews, studying war and trauma in the Roman Republic. Assistant Director of the Andrews History & Archaeology Lab and studying osteology under the tutelage of Rosa Boano. The nuns of Elstow Abbey are nudging her ever further onto #TeamNun!

MAx Dyer (Scotland) -- PhD Student in Classics and Assistant Director of the St Andrews History & Archaeology Lab. Studies environmental archaeology and micro-region histories. Vital contributor to #TeamNun! Eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Elstow Assemblage in the coming year!

Willa Stonecipher (Scotland) -- Fourth-Year Honours student in Medieval History at University of St Andrews and student in the St Andrews History & Archaeology Lab. Watches osteology videos in her spare time. Devoted to Paulina of Paulinzella. Up and coming member of #TeamNun.

Kirstin Uhlenbrock (Scotland) -- Intrepid wheelwoman to #TeamNun. Shows up for the driving, joins in for the history and science!

Dar Brooks Hedstrom (USA) -- archaeological historian and explorer of monastic landscapes populated by nuns (and monks!) in late Antique Egypt. Now exploring monastic landscapes of medieval Scotland and engaging with the work of #TeamNun!

The Centre produced the School of History's offering for Disability History Month -- 18 November to 18 December!

Great afternoon at Lindores Abbey Distillerywith Derek Hall and Dar Brooks - thinking through the plans for our first season of excavations with distillery owner Drew McKenzie Smith. COME DIG WITH US IN SCOTLAND THIS SPRING!

Day 2! A phenomenal tour of Elstow Abbey near Bedford with archaeologist and vicar -- now firmly on #TeamNun!

What a day for #TeamNun! Great things to come.

#TeamNun on the road again! Next stop: Bedfordshire!

Follow our progress here!

First #TeamNun mug photo -- seen at @agfem.bsky.social at our annual research workshop at Uni Bonn! Many more to follow :-)

Applications are open! Please tell your students about this great opportunity to study medieval monastic history and archaeology in Scotland this summer. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study-abroad...

The #TeamNun mugs are in. If you work on medieval religious women and you are open to new scientific approaches to studying them and recovering their stories, give me a shout! I will send! The only catch is that you send ME a photo of you and your mug going about your work - sciency or not!

Any of my sciency friends out there use an Electronic Lab Notebook like LabArchives?

Excited to announce that @kimmcurran.bsky.social and Derek Hall have been appointed Honorary Research Fellows for the next three years -- affiliated with the St Andrews School of History and my Centre for Archaeology, Technology, and History. cath.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

Students interested in monastic archaeology? Global St Andrews summer course are partnering w/ Lindores Abbey Distillery June 2024. Students earn credit, learn abt monasticism, develop archaeology skills, & sustainable heritage w/ @alisonibeach.bsky.social, me, & Derek Hall. Contact Alison for info

Thrilled to announce an exciting new partnership between St Andrews, the Scottish Monasticism Field School, and Lindores Abbey Distillery! Can't wait to see what we uncover in our first season of excavation at this twelfth-century Tironensian monastery. Entrepreneurial monks and entrepreneurial us!