Ursula Goldenbaum is Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. Before, she held academic and research positions at the Institute for Philosophy and History of Science at the Technische Universität Berlin (1998-2003), the Center for European Enlightenment Research (1992-97), and the Philosophical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (1975-1991). She earned her PhD with a dissertation on Spinoza’s Political Philosophy in 1983 and her habilitation degree with a dissertation on the public debate on the Wertheim Bible at the Technische Universität Berlin in 2001. Her research engages 17th and 18th century European philosophy in a rich historical context--ranging from the political and aesthetic to the metaphysical and mathematical topics. She is currently working on a book on the origin of Leibniz’ metaphysics and preparing a book on a philosophical history of the Berlin Academy in 18th century. Goldenbaum authored four books, co-edited three others, edited three text editions, and published about 100 peer-reviewed articles and chapters besides about 15 other papers. She is also editing, together with Alexander Košenina, the Studies Berliner Aufklärung. She gave almost 100 invited papers in Germany, the US, Canada, the UK, Finland, France, Spain and Italy. During the term 2007-08, she was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. She hosted the International Conference on The Creativity of Public Debates in Potsdam (Germany) in 2004, the International Leibniz Conference on Leibniz and the Infinitesimals at Emory, Atlanta in 2006, the South-East Seminar of early modern philosophy at Emory in 2008 and will host the Leibniz Conference of the North American Leibniz Society in May 2019 at Emory. She is currently President of the North American Leibniz Society (2014-18) and serves on the board of the Journal of the History of Ideas since 2009.