Dr Alexandra Sapoznik
Alex Sapoznik is a Reader in Late Medieval History at King’s College London. She previously taught at the University of Cambridge and held a research position at the London School of Economics. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge. Her research has been funded by the British Academy, Leverhulme Trust and UKRI.
From 2018-2021 she was Principal Investigator of the Leverhulme Research Project ‘Bees in the medieval world: Economic, environmental and cultural perspectives’. From 2024 she is Principal Investigator of ‘ECOMEDS: Economic and cultural connections within Mediterranean Ecosystems’, selected by the European Research Council and funded by the UKRI under the Horizon Europe guarantee.
Alex’s research interests lie at the intersection of economy, environment, culture and society with a focus on late medieval Britain and Europe. She has published on topics including agricultural productivity, technological innovation, food security and standards of living. She led an expansive study of the economic and cultural role of the honeybee in the Middle Ages, exploring the impact of climate change, religious culture, and the development of networks of exchange across late medieval Europe from the far north to the southern coasts of the Mediterranean. Her current project builds on these themes through a study of commodity trade in the Mediterranean.
