Jay Rubenstein
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.