Recent Publications:
- 2005  Dominican Penitent Women.  Edited, translated, and introduced by Maiju Lehmijoki-Gardner with contributions by Daniel E. Bornstein and E. Ann Matter.  To be published by Paulist Press in its series The Classics of Western Spirituality.  This includes a comprehensive introduction to Dominican penitent life, translations of Latin and Italian medieval texts into English, notes with extensive analysis and bibliography.
- 2004  "Writing Religious Rules as an Interactive Process - Dominican Penitent Women and the Making of Their Regulai," in Speculum 79: 660-687 [article chosen as the Article of teh month for Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index Site (November 2004).]
- 2002  Keskiajan kirkko. Uskontoelaman muotoja lantisessa kristikannassa [A History of Religious Orders in the Middle Ages].  Suomen Kirjallisuuden Seura, Helsinki.  Coauthored with Tuomas Heikkila.  The second edition was printed in February 2004.
- 1999  Worldly Saints.  Social Interaction of Dominican Penintent Women in Italy, 1200-1500.  My doctoral dissertation, published in English by the Historical Association of Finland.

Current Scholarship & Professional Work:
- 2006 (forthcoming)  Five encyclopedia entries for Women and Gender in Medieval Europe (edited by Margaret C. Schaus), Routledge.  Entries: Spiritual Care, Dominican Women, Laywomen, religious, Tertiaries, and Frances of Rome.
- 2006 (forthcoming) "The Women Behind Their Saints: Dominican Women's Institutional Uses of the Cults of the Fellow Religious," an article to be published in Images of Sanctity: Essays in Honor of Gary Dickson. Ed. Debra Higgs Stickland. Brill.
- Project Director, "Gendered Practices within Medieval Mysticism, 1200-1500,"  The Academy of Finland at the Department of Church History, University of Helsinki.
- Research Fellow, The Academy of Finland at the Department of Church History, University of Helsinki.

Link to Prof. Lehmijoki-Gardner's full Curriculum Vitae in PDF format (will open new window)