Susanne Schuster

Susanne Schuster is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Protestant Theology at the University of Tübingen, specializing in Church History. Her academic career includes research assistant roles at the universities of Jena, Tübingen, Leipzig, and Kassel, alongside a vicariate in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia.

Education:

• Studied Protestant Theology at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Heidelberg University, and Leipzig University
• Doctorate at Friedrich Schiller University Jena (thesis: "My Jesus is everything to me in everything": A study on the piety of Countess Aemilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and the lawyer Ahasver Fritsch)
• Habilitation at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (thesis: Dialogue pamphlets of the early Reformation period)

Research Focus:

• Reformation-era religious communication
• Evangelical piety traditions
• Historical theology practices
• Pietist movements

Academic Roles:

• Research assistant at multiple German universities
• Current position at Church History I institute