Prof. Dr Cordelia Heß

Cordelia Heß has held the chair of Nordic History at the University of Greifswald from 2017 to 2024, and is appointed professor at the Department of History and Classical Studies at Aarhus University as of 1 August 2024. Her research areas include late medieval religious cultures of the Baltic Sea region, interreligious contacts, memory politics, and antisemitism. Together with Jonathan Adams (Copenhagen) and Christhard Hoffmann (Bergen/Oslo), she is the editor of the open access book series “Religious Minorities in the North: History, Politics, and Culture” (DeGruyter). She has recently led two DFG-funded research projects about religious contact in the medieval Arctic and Fennoscandic regions, and about the memory of saints and heroes in the Baltic Sea region.