Emilia Jamroziak is a specialist in medieval religious and cultural history and a professor in the Faculty of History at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznä, Poland. Prior to returning to Poland in 2025, she spent many years at the University of Leeds, UK, where she was Professor of Medieval Religious History and helped build one of the leading centres for medieval studies. She continues her association with Leeds as an honourary visiting research fellow. Her research focuses on the Cistercian Order and on how monastic communities shaped and were shaped by the societies around them. She is the author of The Cistercian Order in Medieval Europe, 1090-1500 (Routledge, 2013) and several other monographs, studies, and edited collections on medieval monastic history.