Professor Jenny Rahel Oesterle-El Nabbout

Jenny Rahel Oesterle is Professor of Medieval European History and its Cultures at the University of Passau (since April 2020). Formerly, she worked as Head of a Junior Research Group (“Protection in Periods of Religious and Political Expansion”) at the University of Heidelberg, as Juniorprofessor for the History of the Medieval Mediterranean at the Ruhr- University of Bochum and as lecturer at the Technical University of Braunschweig. Jenny Oesterle studied Medieval History, Middle Eastern Studies and Theology at the Universities of Giessen, Jerusalem and Münster. She graduated at the University of Münster (MA 2002; PhD summa cum laude 2007) and submitted her “Habilitation” at the University of Heidelberg in 2019.

Contact:
Room: PHIL 380
Phone: +49(0)851/509-2700
E-Mail: Jenny.Oesterle@uni-passau.de

Research

Her research concentrates on Medieval History of Europe, the Mediterranean, Northern Africa and the Middle East, especially: Transcultural History, History of Migration, Flight, Persecution and Protection, Interreligious Contacts in the medieval Mediterranean, Medieval Arab Cartography and Historiography, Rebellion and Violence, Court Cultures, History of Ceremonies and Rituals and History of Historical (especially Medieval) Studies (Wissenschaftsgeschichte) in Germany and the Middle East.
Jenny Oesterle initiated several projects in collaboration with Arab scholars enhancing the exchange with Historians in the Arab World, especially (but not only) in Iraq, Syria, Jemen, Kuwait, Egypt and Lebanon (“The Place of Humanities in Research, Education and Society. An Arab-German Dialogue”, “Historical Research at Iraqi Universities”, “Histories of Philosophy-Philosophies of History” (in cooperation with University of Kuwait), “The Middle Ages Seen from Arab Eyes” etc.

Various

Jenny Oesterle is Alumna of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes). She has been a member of the Transcultural Studies Programm at the University of Heidelberg, the Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Dynamics in the History of Religions”, the “Centre for Mediterranean Studies” both at the Ruhr-University of Bochum, the Global Young Faculty (Mercator-Stiftung, Essen), Collaborative Research Consortium “Gesellschaftliche Symbolik im Mittelalter” at the University of Münster etc.