Evke Rulffes studied cultural studies, art history and Dutch philology in Berlin and Amsterdam. She wrote her thesis on shop-window mannequins in the 1920s: „Die Schaufensterfigur. Herstellung, Inszenierung und Verlebendigungsstrategien in der 1920er Jahren“. Currently she is working on her dissertation about the position of women in ancient economics literature as well as the so-called „Hausväterliteratur“ around 1700.