NINA CAPUTO
Department
of History E-mail:
ncaputo@ufl.edu
025
Keene-Flint Hall Phone:
352.273-3379
University
of Florida Fax:
352.392.6927
Gainesville,
FL 32611
Education
December 1999 Ph.D. , History, University of
California, Berkeley
October 1996-June 1998 Visiting Researcher The Remarque
Institute, New York University
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
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-May 2003 Assistant Professor, Department of
History, Florida International University
August 1998-May 1999 Visiting Assistant Professor,
Department of History, Florida International University
Publications
Nahmanides in
Medieval Catalonia: Community, History, and Messianism,
(Notre Dame University Press, 2007)
-
Articles
"Moses
Nahmanides" in The Cambridge Dictionary of Jewish History, Religion, and Culture,
ed. Judith Baskin (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2010)
"Regional
History, Jewish Memory: The Purim of Narbonne" Jewish History vol.
22, no. 1-2 (June, 2008): 97-114.
"Prophecy
and Redemption: Messianic Expectation in Nahmanides' Sefer ha-Ge'ulah"
in Time and Eternity in the Middle Ages
ed. Gerson Moreno-Riao and
Axel Mller (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 franaise de Rome, 2000).
" 'In The BeginningÉ:' Typology,
History, and the Unfolding Meaning of Creation in Nahmanides'
Exegesis." Jewish Social Studies, 6:1 (Fall, 1999), 52-84.
- Book Reviews
Review
of Mozarabs in Medieval and Early Modern Spain:
Identities and Influences by Richard Hitchcock (Ashgate
Press, 2008) in The Sixteenth Century
Journal (forthcoming)
Review
of Jewish Martyrs in the Pagan and
Christian Worlds by Shmuel Shepkaru
(Cambridge University Press, 2006) in The
Medieval Review 08.10.21 (2008)
Review
of The Jew in the Medieval Book: English Antisemitisms, 1350-1500 by Anthony Bale (Cambridge
Studies in Medieval Literature, No. 60) (Cambridge University Press, 2006), in Journal of Interdisciplinary History,
39:1 (2008): 103-104.
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,
38:1 (2007): 108-109.
Review
of The Contemplative Soul: Hebrew Poetry
and Philosophical Theory in Medieval Spain by Adena
Tanenbaum, (tudes sur le Judasme Mdival) (Brill, 2002) in The Medieval Review 04.11.15 (2004)
Review
of Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval
Western Christendom by Robert Chazan, (Cambridge
University Press, 2004) in The Medieval
Review 04.11.12 (2004)
Invited Lectures and Symposia
"Reviewing the Cases for Convivencia: The Politics of Representing
Medieval Iberian Jewry" Orientalism and
Fundamentalism in Jewish and Islamic Critique: A Conference Honoring Sadik al-Azm
(Funded by the Ford Foundation), Dartmouth College, January 2006
"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 13th 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.
Conference Papers
"Reconquista, Conversion, and the Question
of Tolerance: Petrus Alfonsi's
Dialogi contra iudaeos"
American Society for Church History,
Montreal, April 2009
"What
a Difference a Day Makes: Is the Vernacular in Nahmanides'
Disputation Account Evidence for a Shared Catalan Aesthetic?" Medieval Academy, 81st Annual
Meeting, Boston, March 2006
"Auspicious
Beginnings: The Mythical Origins of Narbonnese Jewry
According to Medieval Hebrew Historical Narratives" Fifteenth Biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance
Studies, March 2006
"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 Expectation 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: Nahmanides' 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 Nahmanides' Sefer ha-Ge'ulah" International
Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, July, 2000
"History,
Creation, and Typology: Nahmanides' 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 Dfinir, Mainterir et Remettre en Cause l'Orthodoxie, cole Franaise 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
Fellowships, Scholarships, and
Grants
2007 Humanities Scholarship Enhancement 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
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
Professional Activities
2009- Postmedieval: A
Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies, member, Editorial Board
2008- Associate Graduate Coordinator, Department of History, University
of Floirda
2006-2007 Personnel and Policy Committee, member,
Department of History, University of Florida
2006,
Spring Modern Middle East Search Committee,
member, Department of History, University of Florida
2005,
Fall Alexander Grass Postdoctoral Fellowship
Search Committee, chair, Center for Jewish Studies
2005,
Fall Japanese History Search Committee,
member, Department of History, University of Florida
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