
Jeremy Piercy
Assistant Professor · Early European History
University of Houston-Clear LakeAbout
Jeremy Piercy is an Assistant Professor of Early European History at the University of Houston-Clear Lake (UHCL), affiliated with the College of Human Sciences and Humanities. He specializes in cultural and social history, focusing on Early Medieval Europe, with particular expertise in English economic structures and material culture.
- Previous roles: Visiting Assistant Professor at College of Charleston, Lecturer at University of Lincoln (UK), and teaching experience at University of Edinburgh.
- Active in education abroad programs, leading summer courses on English History and Heritage in the United Kingdom.
Research Interests: Dr. Piercy's work examines socio-economic development in Early Medieval Europe through interdisciplinary approaches combining name studies, numismatics, historical linguistics, and material culture analysis. His current project reinterprets pre-Conquest English naming patterns using charter witness lists alongside occupational records and familial structures.
Publications: Includes a monograph on Anglo-Saxon mint labor organization (2019) and peer-reviewed articles analyzing familial ties in minting (2020) and database case studies (2017). His research spans subfields like Viking influence, medieval disease patterns, and cultural exchange dynamics.





