Jenny Rahel Oesterle is Junior Research Group Leader of ‘Protection in Periods of Political and Religious Expansion’ at the department of Transcultural Studies at Heidelberg University. From 2008 to 2014, she was Junior Professor of ‘Mediterranean History in the Middle Ages’ at the Ruhr University Bochum and, before that, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Technische Universität Braunschweig. She is Member of the Arab German Academy of Science and Humanities and was on its Steering Committee 2015/2016. In addition, she is a member of several research groups, including ‘Premodern Rulership in a Trans-cultural Comparison’ at the University of Bonn and the ‘Centre for Religious Studies’ at Ruhr University Bochum.
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