Emilia Jamroziak is professor of medieval religious history at the

University of Leeds The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was established in 1874 as the Yorkshire College of Science. In 1884, it merged with the Leeds School of Medicine (established 1831) and was renamed Y ...

. Jamroziak is a specialist in medieval British and European religious history of the 12th to the 16th centuries, the

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, and frontiers and borders in

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. She was the director of the

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at the University of Leeds from 2016 to 2019.

Education

Jamroziak took her BA at

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, her MA at

Central European University Central European University (CEU; , ) is a private research university in Vienna. The university offers graduate and undergraduate programs in the social sciences and humanities, which are accredited in Austria and the United States. The univ ...

, and her PhD

(where her thesis, submitted in 2001, was entitled 'Rievaulx Abbey and its social environment, 1132–1300').
University of Leeds Calendar
' (2006–7), part 1, pp. 86, 90.

Career

Jamroziak gained a permanent lectureship in the University of Leeds's School of History in September 2005, joining the Institute for Medieval Studies around the same time. She became Senior Lecturer in 2008 and Professor of Medieval Religious History in 2014. She was the recipient of the Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, which she held at the

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in 2015–2016, and in 2019-2020 she was a holder of MWK-COFUND fellowship at the Max Weber Kolleg at the University of Erfurt.

Selected publications

*''The Cistercian Order in Medieval Europe 1090-1500''. Routledge, 2013. (

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) *''Monasteries on the Borders of Medieval Europe: Conflict and Cultural Interaction''.

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, 2013. (Edited with K. Stöber) (Medieval Church Studies 28) *''Survival and Success on Medieval Borders: Cistercian Houses in Medieval Scotland and Pomerania from the Twelfth to Late Fourteenth Century''. Brepols, 2011. Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe series. *''Religious and Laity in Northern Europe 1000-1400: Interaction, Negotiation, and Power''. Brepols and Monash University, 2007. (Edited with J.E. Burton) *''Rievaulx abbey and its social context 1132-1300: memory, locality and networks''. Brepols, 2005.

References

External links

University of Leeds profileVideo of inaugural professorial lecture
Living people Academics of the University of Leeds Alumni of the University of Leeds Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań alumni Central European University alumni Academics of the University of Southampton Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-historian-stub