Joanna Kodzik is Junior Full Professor (tenure track) in Arctic Humanities at the Malaurie Institute. She was previously Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (2016-2022), working notably within the framework of the Horizon 2020 project EDU-ARCTIC. Before 2016, she was Research Fellow at the Leibniz Institute for History and Culture in Eastern Europe (GWZO), University of Leipzig, in 2015-2017 and Research Fellow at the Institute of History, University of Potsdam, in 2012-2014. She received her PhD in early modern German Studies from Nikolaus Copernikus University in Torun, Poland, in 2012, after graduating from there in German Studies with a focus on Cultural History. She also graduated in Sociology and Psychology from FernUniversität, Hagen, Germany.
Her research interests include: the History and literature of the German-speaking regions in the early modern period; the cultural history of the European Arctic; Moravian missionary writing; the history of knowledge about the Arctic as well as the history of communication, ceremonial and performance studies.
List of publications
Nota: the list of articles and book chapters only includes publications for the last five years. To download the full list of publications, please click HERE.
Monographs:
Kodzik, Joanna and Sumarliði R. Ísleifsson: "Hve aumir og blindir þeir eru". Dionysius Piper á Íslandi 1740-1743 - bréf og aðrir textar. ["How poor and blind they are". Dionysius Piper in Iceland 1740-1743 - letters and other texts.] Reykjavik 2024 (forthcoming).
Kodzik, Joanna (2015): Ceremoniał polskiego dworu królewskiego w XVII wieku z perspektywy niemieckich uczonych. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Muzeum Pałacu Króla Jana III w Wilanowie.
Kodzik, Joanna (2014): Der polnische Hof im Blick der Zeremonialwissenschaft. Eine systemtheoretische Studie. Hannover: Wehrhahn Verlag.
(Co-)Edited Volumes:
Kodzik Joanna/ Jan Borm/ Axel E. Walter (2023): Represenation of the West-Nordic Isles. Greenland – Iceland – Faroer Island. Kiel: Wachholz Verlag.
Kodzik Joanna/ Jan Borm (2020): German Representations of the Far North (17th- 19th Centuries): Writing the Arctic. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Kodzik Joanna/ Anna Mikołajewska (2019): Reisen, Wahrnehmen, Kommunizieren im deutsch-polnischen Kontext in der Frühen Neuzeit – Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Prof. Dr. Włodzimierz Zientara (UMK). Bremen: edition lumieré.
Kodzik Joanna/ Włodzimierz Zientara (2016): Hybride Identitäten in den preußisch – polnischen Stadtkulturen der Aufklärung. Studien zur Aufklärungsdiffusion zwischen Stadt und Land, zur Identitätsbildung und Kulturaustausch in regionalen und internationalen Kommunikationsnetzwerken. Bremen: edition lumieré.
Peer-reviewed articles in international scientific journals:
Kodzik, Joanna (2023): From Justification to Inclusion. “Using the North” in the Moravian official communication from Greenland in the 18th century, Deshima 17, pp. 7-25.
Kodzik, Joanna (2023): Construtions of the Arctic in Moravian early travel diaries to Greenland, Inter-Nord 22, pp. 118-129. https://miarctic.org/images/publications/Inter-Nord/Inter-Nord_22.pdf
Kodzik, Joanna (2021): Mensch, Natur, Klima: Kommunikation und Rezeption von Wissen aus der Arktis im Mittel- und Osteuropa der Frühen Neuzeit, Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte 23, pp. 45-71.
Kodzik, Joanna/ Jan Borm/ Sylvie Charbit (2021): Producing and communicating natural history in the long 18th century: Moravian observations concerning Greenland’s climate in unpublished sources, Polar Record, 57, E23. doi:10.1017/S0032247421000218.
Kodzik, Joanna (2020): Polarlichter. Kommunizieren über Naturphänomene in den Netzwerken der polnischen Gelehrten Republik im 18. Jahrhundert, Bulletin der Polnischen Historischen Mission in Würzburg (Biuletyn Polskiej Misji Historycznej) 15, pp. 175-201. (https://www.human.umk.pl/panel/wp-content/uploads/Kodzik-Polarlichter.-Das-Kommunizieren-uber-Naturphanomene-in-den-Netzwerken-der-polnischen-Gelehrtenrepublik-im-18.-Jahrhundert.pdf)
Kodzik, Joanna (2019): Moravian Missions in the European Arctic during the Enlightenment: collecting, classifying and communicating knowledge (Greenland, Iceland and Lapland), Arctic and Antarctic. International Journal of Circumpolar sociocultural issues 13, pp. 55-71. https://iacsi.hi.is/issues/2019_volume_13/3_article_vol_13.pdf
Book Chapters:
Kodzik, Joanna (2024): “Moravian journeys to Lapland in the 18th century - communication, indigenous traditions and environment”, in: Jan Borm (ed.): Figures of Lapland: Practice and Mediations of Sámi Culture Yesterday and Today. Leiden: Brill (forthcoming).
Kodzik, Joanna (2024): “Circulation of knowledge about the Faroe Islands among German Protestants in the 17th and 18th centuries”, in: Jan Brom/ Bergur D. Hansen/ Sumarliði R. Ísleifsson (eds.): Iceland and the Faroe Islands seen from within and without: cross-cultural perspectives, 17th-21st century. Leiden: Brill (forthcoming).
Kodzik, Joanna (2024): „Das herrnhutische Wissen über die europäische Arktis (Grönland, Island, Lappland) und die deutschsprachige Gelehrtenwelt im 18. Jahrhundert“, in Wolfgang Breul (ed.): Die Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert. Theologie – Geschichte - Wirkung, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pp. 589-607. https://www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/pdf/10.13109/9783666565618
Kodzik, Joanna, Jan Borm and Axel E. Walter (2023): “Introduction”, in Jan Borm, Joanna Kodzik and Axel E. Walter (eds.), Representations of the West-Nordic Isles. Greenland – Iceland – Faroe Islands. Kiel: Wachholtz Verlag, pp. vii-xviii.
Kodzik, Joanna (2023): “Representation of Iceland in religious context of the Moravian Church as an outcome of cultural mobility”, in: Jan Borm, Joanna Kodzik, Axel E. Walter (eds.): Representation of the West-Nordic Isles. Greenland – Iceland – Faroe Island. Kiel: Wachholz Verlag, pp. 103-128.
Kodzik, Joanna (2022): „La reception des observations arctiques moraves en France à l’époque des Lumières”, in: Jan Borm et Christophe Tournu (sous la direction de), Vivre et communiquer sa foi à l’époque moderne : Confessionnalisations, réveils et récits de vie. Hommage à Bernard Cottret. Paris: Édtions Kimé, pp. 293-309.
Kodzik, Joanna (2021): „Hans Egede, the Moravians and the Greenlanders. Communication during a crisis at the edge of the world”, in: Aage Rydstrøm-Poulsen, Gitte Adler Reimer and Annemette Nyborg Lauritsen (eds.): Tro og samfund i Grønland i 300‑året for Hans Egedes ankomst. Aarhus: Universitetsforlag, pp. 103-119.
In Greenlandic: In: Upperisaq inuiaqatigiillu Hans Egedep tikinneranit ukiut 300-t qaangiunnerann (En del af fagområderne Historie og Teologi), af Å. Rydstrøm-Poulsen, G. Adler Reimer og A. Nyborg Lauritsen. Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag.
Kodzik, Joanna (2021): „Circulation of Arctic Knowledge among German Protestants in the Eighteenth Century – The Example of David Cranz´s Historie von Grönland”, in: Felicity Jensz/ Christina Petterson (eds.): The Legacies of David Cranz's 'Historie von Grönland' (1765), Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 117-139.
Kodzik, Joanna (2020): „Observation, Knowledge and Religion. Mobility of Ideas in David Cranz’s Representation of Greenland”, in: Jan Borm/ Joanna Kodzik (eds.): German representations of the Far North (17th-19th Centuries): Writing the Arctic, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 65-91.
Kodzik Joanna/ Jan Borm (2020): „Introduction. Imagining and Representing the Arctic in German”, in: Joanna Kodzik/ Jan Borm (eds.): German representations of the Far North (17th-19th Centuries): Writing the Arctic, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 1-45.
Kodzik, Joanna/ Anna Mikołajewska (2019): „Einleitung“, in: Joanna Kodzik/ Anna Mikołajewska (eds.): Reisen, Wahrnehmen, Kommunizieren im deutsch-polnischen Kontext in der Frühen Neuzeit – Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Prof. Dr. Włodzimierz Zientara (UMK), Bremen: edition lumieré, pp. 13-18.
Kodzik, Joanna (2019): „Im Wirtshaus und in der Postkutsche. Herrnhutische Kommunikationsstrategen auf Reisen am Beispiel Polen-Litauens“, in: Joanna Kodzik/ Anna Mikołajewska (eds.): Reisen, Wahrnehmen, Kommunizieren im deutsch-polnischen Kontext in der Frühen Neuzeit – Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Prof. Dr. Włodzimierz Zientara (UMK). Bremen: edition lumieré, pp. 79-99.
Kodzik, Joanna (2019): „Enttäuschte Erwartungen“ in der Kommunikation der polnischen Adeligen mit der Brüder-Unität in Herrnhut im 18. Jahrhundert“, in: Robert Charlier/ Sven Trakulhun/ Brunhilde Wehinger (eds.): Europa und die Welt. In memoriam Günther Lottes. Hannover: Wehrhahn Verlag, pp. 209-225.
