# Jay Rubenstein > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jay_Rubenstein > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jay_Rubenstein.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Rubenstein > Source revision: 1341327339 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|American historian of the Middle Ages (born 1967)}} {{Use American English|date=January 2024}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox academic | name = Jay Rubenstein | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = | imagesize = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = 1967 | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | other_names = | residence = | citizenship = | discipline = History | workplaces = [Dickinson College](/source/Dickinson_College)
[Syracuse University](/source/Syracuse_University)
[University of New Mexico](/source/University_of_New_Mexico)
[University of Tennessee](/source/University_of_Tennessee)
[University of Southern California](/source/University_of_Southern_California)
[USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences](/source/University_of_Southern_California_academics) | patrons = | alma_mater = [Carleton College](/source/Carleton_College)
[St John's College, Oxford](/source/St_John's_College%2C_Oxford)
[University of California, Berkeley](/source/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley) | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse = | partner = | children = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Jay Rubenstein''' (born 1967) is an American [historian](/source/historian) of the [Middle Ages](/source/Middle_Ages). ==Life== Rubenstein grew up in [Cushing, Oklahoma](/source/Cushing%2C_Oklahoma) and attended [Carleton College](/source/Carleton_College) in [Northfield, Minnesota](/source/Northfield%2C_Minnesota) where he graduated with a B.A. in 1989. From 1989 to 1991 he studied at the [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford) as a [Rhodes Scholar](/source/Rhodes_Scholar). In 1991 he completed an M.Phil. from Oxford, writing a thesis on the veneration of saints' relics in England after the [Norman Conquest](/source/Norman_Conquest). In 1997, he received a Ph.D. in history from the [University of California, Berkeley](/source/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley), working under the supervision of Professor Gerard Caspary. After leaving Berkeley he taught one year at [Dickinson College](/source/Dickinson_College), one year at [Syracuse University](/source/Syracuse_University), and seven years at the [University of New Mexico](/source/University_of_New_Mexico).{{cite web |url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/836/ |title=Jay Rubenstein |publisher=[MacArthur Foundation](/source/MacArthur_Foundation) |access-date=November 1, 2017}} He is currently a history professor at the [USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences](/source/University_of_Southern_California_academics) and Director of the USC Center for the Premodern World.{{cite web |url=https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/hist/people/faculty_display.cfm?Person_ID=1091824 |title=USC Dornsife Department of History |website=USC Dornsife}}{{cite web |url=https://dornsife.usc.edu/center-for-the-premodern-world/ |title=USC Dornsife Center for the Premodern World |website=USC Dornsife}} His published scholarship has focused on [medieval](/source/medieval) intellectual history, [monastic](/source/monastic) life, and the early [crusade](/source/crusade) movement. In recognition of his Rhodes Scholarship, his hometown of Cushing named a street after him.{{cite web |last1=Bell |first1=Susan |title=From Cushing Crude to the City of Angels: USC Dornsife's new medieval scholar traces his unusual journey |url=https://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/usc-dornsife-medieval-scholars-loves-dr-who-and-the-kinks/ |access-date=January 30, 2024 |website=USC Dornsife |date=December 4, 2020}} ==Awards== * 2012 – [Ralph Waldo Emerson Award](/source/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson_Award) from [Phi Beta Kappa](/source/Phi_Beta_Kappa) for significant contributions to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity * 2007 – [MacArthur Fellows Program](/source/MacArthur_Fellows_Program) * 2007 – [National Endowment for the Humanities](/source/National_Endowment_for_the_Humanities) Fellowship * 2006 – [ACLS](/source/American_Council_of_Learned_Societies) Burkhardt Fellowship * 2004 – William Koren, Jr. Prize from the [Society for French Historical Studies](/source/Society_for_French_Historical_Studies) for an outstanding journal article published on any era of French history by a North American scholar * 2002 – ACLS Fellowship{{cite web |url=http://www.acls.org/research/fellow.aspx?cid=f040f06c-f6a4-db11-8d10-000c2903e717 |title=Jay C. Rubenstein F'06, F'02 |website=ACLS |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828094851/http://acls.org/research/fellow.aspx?cid=f040f06c-f6a4-db11-8d10-000c2903e717 |archive-date=August 28, 2008}} == Selected publications == * {{cite book | title=Nebuchadnezzar's Dream: The Crusades, Apocalyptic Prophecy, and the End of History|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2019|isbn=978-0-190-27420-7}} * {{cite book| title=Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse| publisher= Basic Books| year= 2011| isbn= 978-0-465-01929-8 }} * {{cite book| author=Guibert of Nogent| title= Monodies and On the Relics of Saints: The Autobiography and a Manifesto of a French Monk from the Time of the Crusades|editor1= Jay Rubenstein |editor2=Joseph McAlhany | publisher= Penguin Classics| year= 2011| isbn=978-0-14-310630-2}} * {{cite journal |title=Cannibals and Crusaders |journal=French Historical Studies |date=2008 |volume=31 |issue=4 |pages=525–552 |doi=10.1215/00161071-2008-005 |last1=Rubenstein |first1=Jay }} * {{cite book| title=Teaching and Learning in Northern Europe, 1000–1200|editor1=Sally N. Vaughn |editor2=Jay Rubenstein| publisher=Brepols| year= 2006| isbn= 978-2-503-51419-2 }} * [https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/pdf/10.1484/J.RM.2.303576 "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): 131–168. * {{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lLs68e1lSlsC&q=Jay+Rubenstein&pg=PA53| chapter=How, or How Much, to Reevaluate Peter the Hermit| title=The Medieval Crusade| editor=Susan Janet Ridyard| publisher=Boydell Press| year= 2004| isbn= 978-1-84383-087-0 }} * {{cite book| title=Guibert of Nogent: Portrait of a Medieval Mind| publisher= Routledge| year= 2003| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_L7RgHUYT7IC&q=Jay+Rubenstein| isbn=978-0-415-93970-6 }} * {{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y_x4xbPOvGAC&q=Jay+Rubenstein&pg=PA127| chapter=Principled Passion or Ironic Detachment? The Gregorian Reform as Experienced by Guibert of Nogent | title=The Haskins Society Journal: Studies in Medieval History| editor=Stephen Morillo| publisher=Boydell Press| year=2001| isbn= 978-0-85115-911-9 }} * "Liturgy Against History: The Competing Visions of Lanfranc and Eadmer of Canterbury." ''Speculum 74'' (1999): 271–301. * {{cite book| chapter=The Life and Writings of Osbern of Canterbury| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6J-rJUrbaf4C&q=Jay+Rubenstein&pg=PA27| title=Canterbury and the Norman Conquest: Churches, Saints, and Scholars, 1066–1109|editor1=Richard Eales |editor2=Richard Sharpe| publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group| year= 1995| isbn= 978-1-85285-068-5 }} ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150501082514/http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/jay-rubenstein-2013-08-16 |date=May 1, 2015 |title=Apocalypse Then: The First Crusade – A conversation with Jay Rubenstein}}, ''Ideas Roadshow'', 2013 {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Rubenstein, Jay}} Category:1967 births Category:21st-century American historians Category:21st-century American male writers Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni Category:University of New Mexico faculty Category:University of Tennessee faculty Category:Alumni of St John's College, Oxford Category:American Rhodes Scholars Category:Living people Category:MacArthur Fellows Category:People from Cushing, Oklahoma Category:Carleton College alumni Category:American male non-fiction writers --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Jay Rubenstein](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Rubenstein) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Rubenstein?action=history)). 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