Sina Rauschenbach

Sina Rauschenbach (* 1971 in Berlin ) is a German scholar of religion .

Life

From 1990 to 1996 she studied mathematics and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin (1996 diploma in mathematics, research stays in Israel and Spain). After completing her doctorate in philosophy at the Free University of Berlin in 2000, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the Graduate School Intercultural Communication in a Cultural Studies Perspective at the Saarland University and from 2002 to 2003 she was a research assistant at the Historical Institute of the Saarland University.

From 2003 to 2005 she conducted research at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel , at the Institute for European History in Mainz and at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. From 2005 to 2008 she was a research assistant at the Institute for History at the University of Halle-Wittenberg with the DFG project Menasse ben Israel. Biography of a Jewish intellectual in the 17th century . From 2008 to 2009 she was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin . From 2009 to 2014 she was a research assistant at the Department of History and Sociology at the University of Konstanz .

After completing her habilitation in 2010 at the humanities section in Konstanz , she was a professor at the University of Bern in autumn 2010 . From 2011 to 2013 she was a fellow at the Cultural Studies College of the Excellence Cluster at the University of Konstanz. Since 2011 she has been the coordinator of the Spanish-German working talks between the Fundación Xavier de Salas (Trujillo) and the Herzog August Bibliothek (Wolfenbüttel). Since April 2014 she has taught as a professor of religious studies with a focus on Jewish thought at the University of Potsdam . Since April 2014 she has been a member of the board of directors of the Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg . In autumn 2018 she was Dartmouth German-Harris Distinguished Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College . Since January 2019 she has been the spokesperson for the Early Modern Age Center at the University of Potsdam .

His research interests are Jewish and Christian history in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period, the history of philosophy, knowledge and science, the history and culture of the Sephardic Jews, Jews in colonial America and in the Atlantic world, Christian Hebraica, anti-Trinitarians, intercultural communication and cultural transfer research , Postcolonial Studies and Knowledge, Commerce and Religion. Your geographic focus is on the Iberian Peninsula, Northern Netherlands and colonial America.

Fonts (selection)

• Josef Albo (around 1380–1444). Jewish Philosophy and Christian Theology of Controversy in the Early Modern Period . Leiden 2002, ISBN 90-04-12485-3 .
• Judaism for Christians. Mediation and self-assertion of Menasseh ben Israel in the learned debates of the 17th century . Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-026140-0 .
• as editor with Christian Windler : Reforming Early Modern Monarchies. The Castilian "Arbitristas" in Comparative European Perspectives . Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 3-447-10485-6 .
• as editor with Jonathan Schorsch: The Sephardic Atlantic. Colonial Histories and Postcolonial Perspectives . Cham 2018, ISBN 978-3-319-99195-5 .

Web links

• uni-potsdam.de
• uni-potsdam.academia.edu