Miriam Ruerup is a historian of modern German-Jewish history. She works on the history of statelessness from a Jewish perspective. Since 2020 she has been director of the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies in Potsdam and teaches as a full professor of history and European Jewish studies at the University of Potsdam which is part of the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg. Currently she is working on a project of the German-Jewish Diaspora, focussing on German-Jewish history outside Germany after its expulsion under National Socialism.