Docent Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson

Co-Director of the WIVA Centre. With Viking Age society and its eastern contact network as a specialty, she is associate professor at the University of Uppsala in Sweden and part of the Viking Phenomenon’ project. Charlotte has a background in field archaeology and as a senior curator at the Swedish History Museum (SHM), and has held research scholarships at SHM, Stockholm University and the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (RGZM) in Mainz, Germany. Educated at the Archaeological Research Laboratory at Stockholm University, her research has often adopted an interdisciplinary approach, combining archaeological material and methods with genetics and isotope studies. Key research interests cover martial society, mobility and cultural interactions, where empirically based methodological approaches to questions of social structure, identity, roles and gender also form important elements. In 2020 she was awarded Societas Archaeologica Upsaliensis scientific prize, acknowledging her evidence-based and interdisciplinary research and her “ability to bring scientific results to life without compromising reality”. Charlotte frequently participates in documentaries and other forms of public outreach, and as part of the advisory board in museum exhibitions, both nationally and internationally.