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Position: Post Doctoral Researcher/Research Associate
Bielefeld University
Department of History, Philosophy and Theology
Universitätstr. 25
33501 Bielefeld
Teaches (T) and/or researches (R) in:
2. History of the Jewish People: TR
13: Early Modern: T
Modern: TR
Regional and National (i.e. in North Africa, Greece, Eastern Europe, Germany, Middle East, Spain, India, South America, United States, etc): TR
Local (e.g. the Jews of Canterbury, the Jews of Kovno, etc): TR
Archaeology: TR
21: Biographical Studies: T
3. Religion and Religious Movements: T
28: Reform Judaism: T
29: Orthodox Judaism: T
30: Religion in the State of Israel: T
Description
Cornelia Aust is a lecturer in the department of history at Bielefeld University. She received her PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania in May 2010. In her dissertation titled Commercial Cosmopolitanism. Networks of Jewish Merchants between Warsaw and Amsterdam, 1750-1820 she examines the functioning of commercial and familial networks of members of the Jewish mercantile elite as well as the intersection between economic and social power. She studied in Leipzig, Jerusalem, Berlin, and Warsaw, and holds a M.A. from the Free University Berlin (2003). She received various fellowships including a DAAD fellowship to study in Israel (1999/2000), a Benjamin Franklin Fellowship from the University of Pennsylvania, and an International Dissertation Research Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council (2006-07). In 2008-2009, she was a fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies in Philadelphia. From 2010 to 2013 she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and from 2013 to 2018 a researcher at the Leibniz-Institute for European History in Mainz. She has published an article entitled “Between Amsterdam and Warsaw: Commercial Networks of the Ashkenazic Mercantile Elite in Central Europe” in Jewish History (7:2013) and is working on turning her dissertation into a book. In her new project she is interested in examining Jewish appearances and their perceptions by Jews and non-Jews in seventeenth to early nineteenth central and east central Europe.
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