Ryan Lash is Teaching Fellow in The School of Archaeology at University College Dublin. He is author (with Ian Kuijt, William Donaruma, Katie Shakour, and Tommy Burke) of Island Places, Island Lives: Exploring Inishbofin and Inishark Heritage, Co. Galway, Ireland. He received his PhD in Anthropology from Northwestern University and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Notre Dame and University College Dublin.