Carine van Rhijn (PhD in Medieval History 2003, Utrecht University) is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at Utrecht University. Her research focuses on the cultural history of the early medieval period, with particular interests in manuscripts, small worlds, knowledge, and beliefs.

In the Winter Term 2025/26, she was a POLY Writing Fellow in the Writing Group "Seeking Salvation." During the group's meetings at Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften Bad Homburg in November 2025 and April 2026, she developed her contribution to the first volume of POLY's forthcoming three-volume book project, Doing Christianity: A Praxeological Guide to Polycentricity and Plurality of Premodern Christianities.