Wendy Davies is an emeritus professor of history at University College London and an associate member of the History Faculty, University of Oxford. She retired in 2007, until when she taught medieval European history and held administrative posts such as Head of the History Department, Deans of Arts and of Social and Historical Sciences, and Pro-Provost (Europe). For research she has worked successively on early medieval Wales, Brittany, and Iberia, often working across disciplines and collaborating with other scholars. She has run several interdisciplinary projects which explore the interaction between text and field evidence. In the last twenty years her focus has been on northern Iberia.