The Team
The Management and Co-Operation (Domestic/Foreign)
Steinunn Kristjánsdóttir, PhD, Professor of Archaeology, University of Iceland
Principal Investigator
Steinunn is the project director. She will also contribute to the interpretation of results through her knowledge on medieval and gender archaeology.
Steinunn Kristjánsdóttir is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Iceland. Steinunn has studied monasticism in Iceland during the last decades. She did run archaeological research on the ruins of Skriðuklaustur from 2000–2012, the project Mapping monasticism in Iceland from 2013–2017 and excavations on the ruins of Þingeyraklaustur from 2018. Steinunn has published two monographs in Icelandic, Sagan af klaustrinu á Skriðu (2012), which won the Fjöruverðlaun in Iceland for the books in the scholarly category in 2012, and Leitin að klaustrunum (2017) which won the Hagþenkir prize in 2017. Both were nominated for the Icelandic Literature Prize. Her monograph Monastic Iceland will be published by Routledge in 2023. Steinunn and was the head of Faculty of Philosophy, History and Archaeology from 2018–2022. She received the Order of the Falcon award from the Icelandic state in 2016 for archaeological research and general contribution to the history of Iceland.
James G. Clark, PhD, Professor of Medieval History, Exeter University
Principal Investigator
James is a historian specialised in the dissemination and development of Benedictinism in Europe before the Reformation. He will contribute both to the interpretation of excavation results and to their contextualization.
James Clark is Associate Dean for Research and Knowledge Transfer and Professor of History at the University of Exeter. One of his published books is The Benedictines in the Middle Ages, published by Boydell in 2011. He is also a regular contributor to TV, Radio, News Media and online coverage of medieval, Reformation and early Renaissance themes.
Gottskálk Jensson, PhD, Associate Professor at The Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen
Co-proposer
Gottskálk will investigate the medieval manuscripts, the library and book production at the monastery in Þingeyrar.
Gottskálk is an affiliate professor at the Department of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Iceland.
