Nina Caputo is an Associate Professor in the Department of History. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Caputo is a scholar of medieval Jewish history and interfaith relations in medieval Europe. She has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan, and Florida International University, and has been a recipient of a Mellon Foundation Fellowship at the Penn Humanities Center and a Dorest Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
Caputo is author of Nahmanides in Medieval Catalonia: History, Community, Messianism (2007) and Debating Truth: The Barcelona Disputation of 1263, A Graphic History (Oxford 2017), illustrated by Liz Clarke. She has also co-edited Faithful Narratives: Historians, Religion, and the Challenge of Objectivity (Cornell, 2014) and, with Mitchell B. Hart, On the Word of a Jew. Religion, Reliability, and the Dynamics of Trust (Indiana, 2019).
She is currently working on a book on the figure of the Jewish convert to Christianity in the middle ages. Professor Caputo’s recent courses include “Medieval Jewish History,” “Early Modern Jewish History,” “Holy War,” “Religion and Politics in Medieval Iberia,” and “Apocalypse and Millennium in the Middle Ages.” Her graduate students work in medieval Jewish history, medieval history, and early modern Sephardic culture.