NINA CAPUTO

Department of History E-mail: ncaputo@ufl.edu

025 Keene-Flint Hall Phone: 352.392.0271 ex. 247

University of Florida Fax: 352.392.6927

Gainesville, FL 32611

Professional Experience

August 2003-present Assistant Professor, Department of History University of Florida

September 2002-May 2003 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History and Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan

September 2001-June 2002 Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania, Penn Humanities Forum

September 2001-June 2002 Adjunct Fellow, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania

August 1999-August 2003 Assistant Professor, Department of History

Florida International University

August 1998-August 1999 Visiting Lecturer, Department of History

Florida International University

Education

December 1999 Ph.D. , History, University of California, Berkeley

Ph.D. Thesis ≥And God rested on the seventh day and sanctified it≤: Time, Creation, and Historical Change in Medieval Jewish Culture

October 1996-June 1998 Visiting Researcher

The Remarque Institute, New York University

October 1995 Advanced to Candidacy, University of California, Berkeley

1992 Masters of Arts, Jewish History, University of California, Los Angeles

1991-1992 Visiting Research Fellow, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

1989 Bachelor of Arts, History, University of California, Los Angeles,

1987-1988 Junior Year Abroad, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Publications

≥Prophecy and Redemption: Messianic Expectation in Nahmanidesπ Sefer ha-Geπulah≤ in Time and Eternity in the Middle Ages ed. Gerson Moreno-RiaÒo and Axel M¸ller (Turnhout [Belgium]: Brepols, 2003).

≥To Kill the Thorns in the Vineyard: A Medieval Rabbi's Argument for Diversity within Unity≤ in Orthodoxie, christianisme, histoire ed. Susanna Elm, …ric Rebillard, Anotella Romano (Rome: L'…cole franÁaise de Rome, 2000).

≥ åIn The Beginning. . . :π Typology, History, and the Unfolding Meaning of Creation in Nahmanidesπ Exegesis.≤ Jewish Social Studies, 6:1 (Fall, 1999), 52-84.

Works in Progress

At the Threshold of Redemption: Time and Community in Medieval Jewish Catalonia, under review at Notre Dame University Press

≥The Second Purim of Narbonne: Local Commemoration and Global Narration≤ (working title) solicited article for the journal Jewish History, submission date: 15 June, 2005

Invited Lectures and Symposia

≥The Pen is Sharper than the Sword: Polemics as Holy War in Medieval Judaism,≤ at The Rhetorics of Holy War, the Center for the Study of Religion and Culture, University of California, Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union, February, 2005

≥Boundaries of Faith: The Figure of the Apostate in the Barcelona Disputation,≤ Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida, February, 2003

≥Between Local Recovery and Jewish Memory: Notes on a Thirteenth-Century Brush with Catastrophe≤ Plenary Address, Recovery: Pre-Modern Responses to Catastrophe and Convulsion, Binghamton University, November, 2002

≥Historical Time and Redemptive Time: Temporal Exegesis in Nahmanides Disputation Account,≤ Invited Speaker, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, April, 2002

≥Expectation of the Messiah in 13^th Century Aragon≤ Penn Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania, March, 2002

≥Conversion and Inversion: Representations of Jewishness in the Barcelona Disputation Account≤ Invited Speaker, Annenberg Seminar, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania, February, 2002

≥Contested Authorities: Representation of Community in the Barcelona Disputation Narrative,≤ Invited Speaker, The Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University, January, 2002

≥Testing the Boundaries of Local Jewish Culture: Conflict and Contact in the Barcelona Disputation (1263),≤ Invited Speaker, Leeds University, Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History and Centre for Medieval Studies, April, 2001.

≥Between Continuity and Innovation: A Medieval Jewish Conception of History and Community,≤ Invited Speaker, University of Wisconsin-Madison, December, 1998

Conference Papers

≥In Common Parlance: Jewish-Christian Debate and the Formation of Catalonian Culture,≤ Fourteenth Biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies The New College Florida, March 2004

≥Telling the Present, Recalling the Future: Messianic Expecation in the Barcelona Disputation Account≤, Perceptions of the Past Visions of the Future, 2003 Annual Conference, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, February, 2003

≥Jewish Identity, Jewish Leadership: Nahmanidesπ Self-Representation in the Barcelona Disputation Account≤ Changing Identities, 1000-1600, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, February, 2001

≥Prophecy and Redemption: Messianic Expectation in Nahmanidesπ Sefer ha-Geπulah≤ International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, July, 2000

≥History, Creation, and Typology: Nahmanidesπ Commentary on Bereshit≤ Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, December 1998

≥The Rabbi, The Apostate, and the King: Testing the Local Boundaries of Medieval Jewish Culture,≤ Intellectual History and Practice: A Workshop, University of California, Berkeley, October 1998

≥To kill the thorns in the vineyard: A Medieval Rabbi's Argument for Diversity within Unity≤ Colloque DÈfinir, Mainterir et Remettre en Cause l'Orthodoxie, …cole FranÁaise de Rome, July 1998; Boston University, February, 1998.

≥The Maimonidean Controversy: Accusations and Responses in the Name of Jewish Orthodoxy,≤ Medieval Studies Group, University of California, Berkeley, October 1997

≥Transforming the Past: Narrative and Remembrance in Medieval French Jewish Chronicles,≤ International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, July 1996

≥Vessels of Jewish Memory: The Chronicle of the Purim of Narbonne,≤ Medieval Studies Colloquium, University of California, Berkeley, September 1994

Book Reviews

Review of Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism by J.H. Chajes (Jewish Culture and Contexts)) (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), in Journal of Interdisciplinary History (forthcoming)

Review of The Contemplative Soul: Hebrew Poetry and Philosophical Theory in Medieval Spain by Adena Tanenbaum, (…tudes sur le JudaÔsme MÈdiÈval) (Brill, 2002) in The Medieval Review 04.11.15

Review of Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom by Robert Chazan, (Cambridge University Press, 2004) in The Medieval Review 04.11.12

Fellowships, Scholarships, and Grants

2005 Jewish Studies Course Development Grant

University of Florida

2004 Humanities Scholarship Advancement Grant

University of Florida

2001-2002 Mellon Foundation Fellowship

Penn Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Fall 2000, Spring 2000, Spring 1999 Faculty Development Grant-in-Aid

College of Arts and Sciences, Florida International University

1997-1998 Dean's Dissertation Fellowship

University of California, Berkeley

1993-1997 Koret Foundation Fellowship

Koret Foundation for Jewish Culture, San Francisco

1997 Medieval Studies Research Grant

Committee for Medieval Studies, University of California, Berkeley

1996 Humanities Graduate Research Grant

Graduate Division, University of California, Berkeley

1995 Heller Foundation Research Grant

University of California, Berkeley

1995 Medieval Studies Research Grant

Committee for Medieval Studies, University of California, Berkeley

1992-1993 Jerome S. Friedburg Fellowship

Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley

1991-1992 Inter-university Fellowship

Friends of Hebrew University, Jerusalem

1990-1992 Provost Fellowship

University of California, Los Angeles

Courses Taught

Seminars: The Jews of Sepharad (honors); Writing the Jewish Middle Ages; Perceptions of Time and History in the Middle Ages: Jewish and Christian Perspectives (freshmen); Topics in European History: The Non-Rational and Modern Historiography (graduate).

Survey Courses: Jewish History: From the Rise of Islam to 1492; Jewish History: 1492 to the Haskalah; Western Civilization in the Medieval Period

Special Topics: Apocalypse and Millennium: Ancient to Modern Models; Judaism and Christianity: Conflict and Contact in the Middle Ages; Religious Minorities in the High Middle Ages

Professional Activities

2003-2004 American Religious History Search Committee, member, Department of Religion, University of Florida

2003-2005 Program Committee for the 2005 Conference, Medieval Academy of America, member

1999-2000 Modern European History Search Committee, member, Department of History, Florida International University

August 1999- Working Group for Pre-modern Studies, founding member, Florida International University, Committee organizing interdisciplinary area studies program

May 1999 European Studies Steering Committee, member, Florida International University, Committee serving interdisciplinary program

August 1998- Judaic Studies Steering Committee, member, Florida International University, Committee serving interdisciplinary program

August 1995-March 1996 Associate Curator

Sanford L. Ziff Jewish Museum of Florida

Spring 1995 Editorial Assistant

Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, and Society

1994-1995 Director, Working Group for the Study of Jewish Cultures

Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California, Berkeley

Professional Affiliations

American Historical Association; Jewish Studies Association; Medieval Academy of America; American Academy of Religion.