Penelope Dransart FSA is an anthropologist, archaeologist, and historian specialising in South American anthropology and the study of castles.
[3] She has written or edited several books, including Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric: An Ethnography and Archaeology of Andean Camelid Herding (2002, Routledge).
Dransart guest curated an exhibition about Fetternear at Blairs Museum in Aberdeen.
She is part of the permanent committee of the Colloques Château Gaillard, a biannual conference for castellologists.
[1] Dransart is also Editor for Archaeology and Art for Studia Celtica, an academic journal about Celtic studies.