Nina Caputo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History. She received her B.A. and M.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Before coming to the University of Florida, she was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, and Assistant Professor at Florida International University.
She is completing revisions on her book, Nahmanides
in Medieval Catalonia: History, Community, and Messianism ,
and she is the author of "In the Beginning....Typology, History, and
the Unfolding Meaning of Creation in Nahmanides's Exegesis," Jewish
Social Studies
(Spring 1999); "To Kill the Thorns in the Vineyard: A Medieval Rabbi's
Argument for Diversity within Unity," in
Orthodoxie, Christianisme, Histoire, (École Française
de Rome, 2000); and "Prophecy and Redemption: Messianic Expectation
in Nahmanides' Sefer ha-Ge'ulah," in Time and Eternity: the Medieval
Discourse (Turnhout:
Brepols, 2003). She has recently taught "Apocalypse
and Millennium: Exploring a Theme in Western Culture," "Writing
the Jewish Middle Ages," and a two semester survey of medieval and
early modern Jewish History. Her most recent courses include “Writing
the Jewish Middle Ages” and “Jewish History: 1492 through the
Eve of the Enlightenment”.
