Professor of Medieval History 2011, since 2012 to present at Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, University of Bergen.

2016– . UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Heritage and Environmental Management – Nature and Cultur. University of Bergen.

2014– .  Part time lecturer, University College of Bergen.

2011– .  Part time lecturer, Department of Landscape, Architecture and Spatial Planning. The University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway.

2008–12. Researcher and author of Stavanger bys historie, b. 1.

Senior Researcher and professor, The  Centre for Mediaeval Studies, University of Bergen.

2008–11.  Part time adviser, The Hanseatic Museum, Bergen.

2003–07.  Associate professor, Department of History, University of Bergen.

2002.  Associate professor, Volda University College, Volda, Norway.

1997–99. Researcher and author of Norsk forsvarshistorie, b. 1. (Norwegian military history, vol. 1). Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies. Oslo.

1994–2002.  Associate professor, part and full time, Department of History, University of Bergen.

1994. Lecturer at The Bryggen Museum, Bergen.

1991–94.  Scholarship The Norwegian Research Council 1991 – 1994.

2024

• Ersland, Geir Atle (2024). The Hanse and Bryggen in Bergen – Creating Cultural Heritage. (external link)
• Ersland, Geir Atle; Koch, Sören (2024). Rebranding or Creation - the Emergence of the 'Kontor'. (external link)

2022

• Ersland, Geir Atle (2022). A Bergen Merchant in Times of Neutrality. (external link)

2019

• Brathetland, Bente; Ersland, Geir Atle (2019). Nettverksmakt. Sosiale band og nettverk i dei norske innbyrdesstridane 1130-1208. (external link)
• Ersland, Geir Atle (2019). The Notau harbour and the Kontor in Bergen. (external link)

2017

• Suppersberger Hamre, Stian; Ersland, Geir Atle; Daux, Valérie et al. (2017). Three individuals, three stories, three burials from medieval Trondheim, Norway. (external link)
• Ersland, Geir Atle (2017). Bergen 1300 - 1600: A Trading hub between the North and the Baltic Sea.. (external link)

2016

• Ersland, Geir Atle (2016). Stadtentwiclung in Westnorwegen 1450 - 1850. (external link)

2015

• Ersland, Geir Atle (2015). Urban Land Ownership and Rural Estates - The Case of Three Scandinavian Medieval Towns. (external link)
• Ersland, Geir Atle (2015). How Archaeology Saved Bryggen. (external link)
• Ersland, Geir Atle (2015). The History of Bryggen until 1900. (external link)

2014

• Ersland, Geir Atle (2014). Das Handelsgericht des Hansekontors in Bergen. (external link)

2013

• Ersland, Geir Atle (2013). Mellomalderbyen Stavanger. (external link)
• Ersland, Geir Atle (2013). Republic versus Monarchy: Urban Government in Medieval Scandinavia. (external link)
• Brekke, Øystein Hellesøe; Ersland, Geir Atle (2013). Håkonshallen 750 Years - royal residence and national monument. (external link)
• Ersland, Geir Atle; Brekke, Øystein Hellesøe (2013). Fragment frå fortida. (external link)
• Ersland, Geir Atle (2013). Eit statsbesøk til Konstantinopel via Jerusalem. (external link)
• Ersland, Geir Atle (2013). The Castle as a Military Stronghold 1100-1700. (external link)

2012

• Ersland, Geir Atle; Solli, Arne (2012). Stavanger bys historie, bind 1. Bispeby og borgarby - frå opphavet til 1815. (external link)
• Ersland, Geir Atle (2012). Vin og bystyre. (external link)
• Ersland, Geir Atle (2012). Stavangers historie bind 1. (external link)

2011

• Ersland, Geir Atle (2011). Opponentsinnlegg til Erika Harlitz: Urbana system och riksbildning i Skandinavien. (external link)
• Ersland, Geir Atle (2011). Das Kaufmannshaus - Det hanseatiske kontorets rettslokale og administrasjonshus i Bergen. (external link)
• Myking, Tor; Yakovlev, Igor; Ersland, Geir Atle (2011). Nuclear genetic markers indicate Danish origin of the Norwegian beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) populations established in 500–1,000 AD. (external link)
• Ersland, Geir Atle (2011). Kven eigde byen - bygrunnlegging, grunneige og grunnleige i Bergen og eit utval nordeuropeiske byar. (external link)
• Ersland, Geir Atle (2011). Byens konstruksjon - varige spor i byens landskap. (external link)

2010

• Ersland, Geir Atle (2010). Hanseater og pirater. (external link)
• Ersland, Geir Atle (2010). Bergen, Bryggen, hanseatene og Koren Wiberg. (external link)
• Ersland, Geir Atle (2010). Det hanseatiske museum 1872 - 2010. (external link)
• Ersland, Geir Atle (2010). Plot longevity and urban land tenure: a Norwegian case study. (external link)

2008

• Ersland, Geir Atle (2008). Leidang. A military System from the Viking Age to the Renaissance. (external link)
• Ersland, Geir Atle (2008). Verzeichnis des Archivs des Kaumannshause im Bergen 1686, 1724 und 1753 (Appendix 1 - 3). (external link)
• Ersland, Geir Atle (2008). The Archive of the Kontor in Bergen. (external link)
• Ersland, Geir Atle (2008). Vorwort. (external link)
• Ersland, Geir Atle (2008). Neue Studien zum Archive und zur Sprache der Hanseaten. (external link)

2006

• Ersland, Geir Atle (2006). Byar i vest 1500-1850. (external link)

2005

• Ersland, Geir Atle (2005). Was the Kontor in Bergen a topographically closed entity. (external link)
• Ersland, Geir Atle (2005). En kort historie om Bergen. (external link)
• Ersland, Geir Atle (2005). Hanseaten og Bryggen i Bergen. (external link)
• Ersland, Geir Atle (2005). Urban Tenure in Bergen during the 16th an 17th Century. (external link)
• Ersland, Geir Atle (2005). "Saa langt vtt vppa sioen..." Utfyllig og utbygging i Vågen i Bergen frå høgmellomalderen og til midten av 1600-talet. (external link)

2000

• Schrumpf, Ellen; Ersland, Geir Atle (2000). Barnet. (external link)
• Ersland, Geir Atle (2000). Norsk forsvarshistorie - krigsmakt og kongemakt. (external link)

1999

• Ersland, Geir Atle (1999). Forsvaret, fra leidang til totalforsvar. Del 1 og 2. (external link)

1998

• Ersland, Geir Atle (1998). Die Hanse-Archive aus Bergen. I Schlüssel zur Geschichte - 700 Jahre Lübecker Archiv. (external link)

1997

• Ersland, Geir Atle; Ersland, Geir Atle; Hovland, Edgar et al. (1997). Festskrift til Historisk institutts 40-års jubileum. (external link)

1996

• Ersland, Geir Atle (1996). Power, profit and urban land - Landownership in medieval and earley modern European towns. (external link)
• Ersland, Geir Atle (1996). Introduction. In Power, profit and urban land. (external link)
• Ersland, Geir Atle (1996). The evolution of land rent in late medieval Bergen. In Power, profit and Urban land. (external link)

1995

• Ersland, Geir Atle (1995). Kino. (external link)

1994

• Ersland, Geir Atle (1994). Kven eigde byen? : ei gransking av opphavet og utviklinga av grunnleige i Bergen og eit utval nordeuropeiske byar. (external link)

1993

• Ersland, Geir Atle (1993). Hordaland - ein historisk region. I Kulturhistorisk vegbok. (external link)
• Ersland, Geir Atle (1993). Torget og Vågsbotn - ei bytopografisk skisse. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Publications and activities registered in CRISTIN

Publications 2010 - 2019

Ersland, Geir Atle. 2019. The Notau harbour and the Kontor in Bergen. AmS-skrifter 2019 (27) s. 237-244.

Bergen 1300 - 1600: A Trading hub between the North and the Baltic Sea. 24, sider 428-445. I: Blockmans, Wim; Krom, Mikhail; Wubs-Mrozewicz, Justyna. 2017. The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade Around Europe 1300-1600. Routledge. ISBN: 978-1-138-89950-6.

Suppersberger Hamre, Stian; Ersland, Geir Atle; Daux, Valérie; Parson, Walther; Wilkinson, Caroline. Three individuals, three stories, three burials from medieval Trondheim, Norway. PLOS ONE 2017; Volum 12: e018277. (7)

Ersland, Geir Atle. 2016. Stadtentwiclung in Westnorwegen 1450 - 1850. I: Der skandinavische Weg in die Moderne : Beiträge zur Geschichte Norwegens und Schwedens vom Spätmittelalter bis ins 20. Jahrhundert. BWV - Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag 2016 ISBN 978-3-8305-3638-3. s. 49-61.

Ersland, Geir Atle. 2015. How Archaeology Saved Bryggen. I: Nordic Middle Ages - Artefacts, Landscapes and Society. Essays in Honour of Ingvild Øye on her 70th Birthday.  Universitetet i Bergen 2015 ISBN 978-82-90273-89-2. s. 145-157

Ersland, Geir Atle. 2015. The History of Bryggen until 1900. I: Monitoring, Mitigation, Management. Oslo: Riksantikvaren 2015 ISBN 978-82-7574-085-2. s. 11-23

Ersland, Geir Atle. 2015. Urban Land Ownership and Rural Estates - The Case of Three Scandinavian Medieval Towns. I: The Medieval Countryside 11 - Town and Country in Medieval North Western Europe. Brepols 2015 ISBN 978-2-503-53387-2. s. 265-285

Das Handelsgericht des Hansekontors in Bergen. I: Hanse und Stadt. Lübeck: Verein für Lübeckische Geschichte und Altertumskunde. ISBN 978-3-79505219-5. Lübeck 2014. s. 89-102.

Republic versus Monarchy: Urban Government in Medieval Scandinavia. I: Revue d'histoire Nordique 2013 (16) ISSN 1778-9605. Toulouse 2013. s. 99–113.

Eit statsbesøk til Konstantinopel via Jerusalem. I: Fragment frå fortida. ISBN 978-82-8265-058-8. Oslo 2013. s. 24–37.

The Castle as a Military Stronghold 1100–1700. I: Håkonshallen 750 Years – royal residence and national monument. ISBN 978-82-8265-063-2. Oslo 2013 .s. 77–88.

Mellomalderbyen Stavanger. Stavangeren, medlemsblad for Byhistorisk foreining. (3) ISSN 0806-184X. Stavanger 2013. s. 33–42.

Torget i Bergen - fra opphavet til 1733. Gamle Bergen Årbok. Bergen 2013. s. 6–12.