[3] Rubenstein earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religion and English (summa cum laude) at Williams College in 1999.

With the support of a Dr. Herchel Smith Fellowship, she studied philosophical theology at the University of Cambridge, where she earned a Post-Graduate Diploma in 2000 and an MPhil in 2001.

She was granted a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship to pursue doctoral work at Columbia University, where she received a PhD in Philosophy of Religion in 2006.

In 2006, she earned Columbia University's Core Curriculum Award for Graduate Teaching and served as the Doctoral Commencement Speaker.

[5] While her early work investigated the disavowal of wonder in phenomenology[6] and deconstruction,[7] her more recent writing has moved into the metaphysical underpinnings of cosmology,[8] astronomy and space travel,[9][10] general relativity and quantum mechanics,[11] and non-linear biology and ecology.