Sinai Rusinek

Dr. Sinai Rusinek is a Polonsky post-doctoral fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Her doctoral dissertation (2011, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) titled "Criticus, Kritikos: History of the Concepts of the Critic and Criticism to 1600" dealt with the way these concepts functioned in various contexts and discourses from antiquity to Early Modernity, and with how they changed and were formed through these uses.

At her post-doctoral research she engages in the history of the early modern concept of envy. Her research focuses on the historical semantics of the terms Envy and Invidia, on the varying uses made of them in different discourses, languages and periods, and on what can be learnt from this about concepts of emotions.
Sinai has led a discussion group and summer workshops on the History of Concepts at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.
Among her interests: theoretical and methodological aspects of the history of concepts and ideas, concepts of emotion and concepts in intellectual history, the history of Paratext and the 16th century in Europe.

Sinai is also together with Margrit Pernau, editor of 'Contributions to the History of Concepts' which is published by Berghahn journals and hosted by the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/choc/