Dr Keith Ruiter is an interdisciplinary medievalist working at the intersection of history, law, archaeology, and literature, based in the Research Services Office (RSO) at Yukon University. His specialist research focuses on topics like legalism, normativity, punishment, and personhood in Viking-Age Scandinavia and its diaspora, but he has also developed broad interests in circumpolar studies, public humanities, and co-creative approaches to research and education. His work has been supported by a range of international funders including SSHRC, Berit Wallenbergs stiftelse, and UKRI, and he remains active in research and teaching as Honorary Assistant Professor in Viking Studies at the University of Nottingham’s Centre for the Study of the Viking Age.
He comes to Yukon having worked in universities and research centres in Scotland, Sweden, Québec, and England, where he most recently served as Head of Humanities and Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Suffolk. In his role in the RSO, he leverages his faculty, research, and management experience to help further develop and support the research community of YukonU by focusing on relationship-building.