About Eljas
Eljas Oksanen was awarded a PhD in History by the University of Cambridge in 2007 for his dissertation on international exchanges in north-western Europe during the Middle Ages, and the title of Adjunct Professor (Dosentti) in Archaeology by the University of Helsinki in 2024. Over the course of his academic career he has worked with universities, national museums and academic institutions in England and in Finland on research projects related to history, archaeology, Digital Humanities, Heritage Practice Communities and Citizen Science. Oksanen’s recent projects have combined intersectoral and data-driven scientific research of historical and archaeological materials with the study of their dissemination, use and consumption in the contemporary society as digitized cultural heritage. He is currently a Postdoc Research Fellow at the University of Reading on the The Medieval Ritual Landscape: Archaeology & Lived Religion project.
