Carenza Lewis

Carenza Lewis is Professor of Public Engagement with Research at the University of Lincoln, having formerly been archaeological investigator with the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, research fellow at Birmingham University, and director of Access Cambridge Archaeology at Cambridge University. A MSRG member since 1986, she has researched and published widely on medieval rural settlement, since 2005 directing community excavations in >80 currently occupied medieval rural settlements in England and from 2019–23 leading a major project introducing this approach in more than a dozen rural settlements in the Netherlands, Czech Republic and Poland. A former president of the Society for Medieval Archaeology and of MSRG, she currently chairs the European Archaeological Association Advisory Committee for the Public Benefits of Archaeology and is the UK national representative for Ruralia.