Professor Ian Kuijt received his B.A. in History from the University of Lethbridge, an M.A. in Archaeology from Simon Fraser University, and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University. Since 2006 he has directed the Irish Cultural Landscape Heritage Initiative, an interdisciplinary project with the University of Notre Dame, University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin, which focuses on understanding social and cultural life in rural Ireland. His research has been supported by the National Endowments for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the British Academy. He regularly teaches the field class, The Archaeology of Ireland, in which Notre Dame undergraduate students travel through Ireland for 10 days to learn about the Cultural Heritage of Ireland.