Hedwig Röckelein (PhD in Medieval History 1985, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg) is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at Georg August University of Göttingen. Her research focuses on medieval religious culture and gender history, particularly women’s religious communities, the cult of saints, and hagiography.

In the Winter Term 2025/26, she was a POLY Writing Fellow in the Writing Group "Seeking Salvation." During the group's meetings at Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften Bad Homburg in November 2025 and April 2026, she developed her contribution to the first volume of POLY's forthcoming three-volume book project, Doing Christianity: A Praxeological Guide to Polycentricity and Plurality of Premodern Christianities.