Nina Caputo
Position title: CJS Director & Lipton Professor of Jewish Studies
Email: ncaputo2@wisc.edu
Address:
Office: 4225 Mosse Humanities Building
Education:
Ph. D., History, University of California, Berkeley (1999)
M.A., Jewish History, University of California, Los Angeles (1992)
B.A., History, University of California, Los Angeles (1989)
Research Areas: medieval Jewish intellectual and cultural history, medieval Iberian Jewry, Jewish-Christian relations in the middle ages, religious conversion
About: Nina Caputo is the Lipton Professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the CJS. Her publications include Nahmanides in Medieval Catalonia: Community, History, and Messianism, and Debating Truth: The Barcelona Disputation of 1263, a Graphic History. In addition, she co-edited Faithful Narratives: Historians, Religion, and the Challenge of Objectivity and On the Word of a Jew: Religion, Reliability, and the Dynamics of Trust. Her work has appeared in Jewish Social Studies, Jewish History, Perichoresis, and the Journal of Law and Religion, as well as various anthologies. Caputo teaches courses on “Medieval Jewish History,” “Early Modern Jewish History,” and “Jewish in Christian Spain.” She has trained graduate students in medieval Jewish history, medieval history, and early modern Sephardic culture.