Jay Rubenstein

Jay Rubenstein
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Born	1967
Nationality	American
Fields	History
Institutions	Dickinson College Syracuse University University of New Mexico University of Tennessee
Alma mater	Carleton College University of Oxford University of California, Berkeley

Jay Rubenstein (born 1967) is an American historian of the Middle Ages.

Life

Rubenstein grew up in Cushing, Oklahoma and attended Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota where he graduated with a B.A. in 1989. From 1989-1991 he studied at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. In recognition of this achievement, his hometown of Cushing named a street after him. In 1991 he completed an M.Phil. from Oxford, writing a thesis on the veneration of saints' relics in England after the Norman Conquest. In 1997, he received a Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley, working under the supervision of Professor Gerard Caspary. After leaving Berkeley he taught one year at Dickinson College, one year at Syracuse University, and seven years at University of New Mexico. Since 2006 he has been based at the University of Tennessee as an associate professor of history. His published scholarship has focused on medieval intellectual history, monastic life, and the early crusade movement.

Awards

• 2012 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award from Phi Beta Kappa for significant contributions to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity.
• 2007 MacArthur Fellows Program
• 2007 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
• 2006 ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship
• 2004 William Koren, Jr. Prize from the Society for French Historical Studies for the outstanding journal article published on any era of French history by a North American scholar
• 2002 ACLS Fellowship

Works

• "Cannibals and Crusaders," French Historical Studies 31 (2008): 525-52 | url=http://fhs.dukejournals.org/content/31/4/525.abstract
• “What Is the Gesta Francorum, and Who Is Peter Tudebode?” Revue Mabillon 16 (2005): 179-204.
• “Biography and Autobiography in the Middle Ages,” in Writing Medieval History: Theory and Practice for the Post-Traditional Middle Ages, ed. Nancy Partner. Arnold: London, 2005, pp. 53–69.
• “Putting History to Use: Three Crusade Chronicles in Context," Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 35 (2004): 131-68.
• “Liturgy Against History: The Competing Visions of Lanfranc and Eadmer of Canterbury.” Speculum 74 (1999): 271-301.

External links

• "Apocalypse Then: The First Crusade - A conversation with Jay Rubenstein", Ideas Roadshow, 2013