Wojtek Jezierski

Associate Professor at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo.
Associate Professor at the School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, Södertörn University.
Associate Professor at the Department of History and the Centre for Medieval Studies, Stockholm University.

As a partner in the Norwegian ELITES team, Wojtek Jezierski will compare various aspects of Polish and Norwegian political culture in the High Middle Ages.

Jezierski completed and published his PhD (2010) in medieval history at the Department of History, University of Stockholm with a thesis entitled Total St Gall. Medieval Monastery as a Disciplinary Institution. Since 2015 he has published studies and edited volumes on political culture, imagined communities, history of emotions on the Baltic Rim, with a special focus on Scandinavia and East-Central Europe in multiple national and international projects. Most recently, he co-edited the third volume of the Nordic Elites in Transformation: Legitimacy and Glory, published with Routledge in 2021. He is currently preparing a co-edited (with Sari Nauman, Christina Reimann, and Leif Runefelt) transhistorical volume on Baltic Hospitality, 1000-1900 for Palgrave (to appear in 2022) from a project funded by The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (Östersjöstiftelsen) and his own monograph published with Brepols: Risk, Emotions, and Hospitality in the Christianization of the Baltic Rim, 1000-1300.

Alongside the ELITES Project, Jezierski will lead an international project “Ambiguities of Hospitality: Intercultural Integration and Conflict in Host-Guest Relations on the European Borderlands, c. 1000-1350”, 2022-2024. This collaborative project, with Lars Kjær in (New College of the Humanities, London) and Tim Geelhaar (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Mainz), is funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet).