Maria Lissek is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Historical Theology since 2020. She studied Protestant and Catholic theology in Bamberg, Marburg, Jerusalem and Tübingen. In 2013/14 she was academci assistant in Jerusalem and in 2016/17 Research Fellow at Oxford (College Lady Margaret Hall).
Maria Lissek received her PhD on Christian self-understanding in interreligious encounters in the Middle Ages in 2020. Publications by her include interreligious encounters, Christian saints, and Jerusalem in late antiquity as well as in the present. Her postdoctoral project explores minorities in Christian history in Late Antiquity. In addition, she works on the medieval anti-Christian Jewish dialogue "Milchamot Ha-Shem" by Jacob Ben Reuven as well as the Christian interpretation of the destruction of the Holy Sepulchre in 1009 in Western Early Middle Ages. In addition, she is researching the medieval veneration of the late antique martyr Vincent of Saragossa in the area of present-day Switzerland.
Maria Lissek is series editor of the series “theos” (theologically significant places in Switzerland) at Schwabe Verlag Basel. She was an editorial member in the online science platform of the same name “theos”.
