- Dean of Social Sciences, Professor of Religion and Science and Technology Studies, Wesleyan University
Rubenstein is the author of Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race (Chicago, 2022); Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters (Columbia, 2019); Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse (Columbia, 2014); and Strange Wonder: The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe (Columbia, 2009). She is also co-author with Thomas Carlson and Mark C. Taylor of Image: Three Essays in Technology and Imagination; and co-editor with Catherine Keller of Entangled Worlds: Religion, Science, and New Materialisms (Fordham, 2014).
Her work has been featured on BBC radio and television, National Public Radio, and the Institute for Arts and Ideas; and she has published articles in The New Scientist, Nautilus, Gizmodo, and The Revealer. She is the recipient of numerous teaching awards; recipient of the Iris Book Award in Science, Religion, and Technology; and co-PI of the "Sacred Space" project through Arizona State University's Interplanetary Initiative.
Experience
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2023–presentDean of Social Sciences, Wesleyan University
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2006–presentProfessor of Religion, Wesleyan University
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2012–presentProfessor of Science and Technology Studies, Wesleyan University
Education
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2006Columbia University, Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion
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