Stefanie Rüther

Stefanie Rüther is an Associated Member at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt am Main. She holds a PhD from the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (2000), where her dissertation focused on the representation of Lübeck councillors in the Middle Ages and early modern period.

Her career includes roles such as Research Associate in the SFB 496 Symbolic Communication and Social Value Systems (2000–2008), Head of a Junior Research Group in the Graduate School of the Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics (2008–2012), and Knowledge Research Officer at the University of Göttingen. She has been a Research Coordinator at the Max Planck Institute since 2015.

Research Interests:

• Historical analysis of war, conflict, and security in late medieval and early modern Europe
• Epistemological dimensions of historical knowledge production
• Religious and pietistic movements in pre-modern societies

No academic awards or publications are explicitly listed in the provided text, though her work emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches to historical conflict and symbolic communication systems.