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Alexandra Gajewski

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Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Madrid

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Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Madrid

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Dr Alexandra Gajewski studied Art History, Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology at Münster University, Germany and obtained her PhD at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, on Gothic architecture in northern Burgundy. Since then she has taught at various London universities, at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and as Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Dr Gajewski’s research concentrates on art and architecture in medieval Europe between the twelfth and fourteenth century, especially on questions of monasticism, cult and patronage. She has published widely on Cistercian architecture in France, the Empire and Bohemia. Her publications include also a review of the work of Emile Mâle and a forthcoming study of the abbey church at Vézelay in the context of the cult of Mary Magdalene. Starting in 2010, she will be engaged at the Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Madrid, working on an international project on medieval women.