About Us

Matthew Handelman is Assistant Professor of German and a member of the Core Faculty in the Digital Humanities at Michigan State University. His research interests include German-Jewish literature and philosophy, the intersections of science, mathematics and culture in German-speaking countries, as well as the digital humanities and the history of technology. His first book, The Mathematical Imagination: On the Origins and Promise of Critical Theory, is forthcoming with Fordham University Press.

Sinai Rusinek teaches Digital Humanities at Haifa University and Bar Ilan University and works at OMIlab, at the Open University, Israel. Her main interests include the history of concepts and the digital humanities. Her doctoral dissertation, Criticus, Kritikos, Critick was written under the supervision of Prof. Yemima Ben Menachem and Dr. Amiel Vardi at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It dealt with the way these words functioned in various contexts and discourses from antiquity to Early Modernity, and with how they changed and were formed through these uses.

Ynon Wygoda is a postdoctoral fellow with the Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His academic interests include modern Jewish philosophy, the history of philosophy, phenomenology, continental philosophy, modernist French and German literature. In 2017, he submitted his dissertation, “On Silence and Ineffability in the thought of Vladimir Jankélévitch and Franz Rosenzweig,” under the supervision of Prof. Moshe Halbertal.