Background
Rubenstein grew up in Cushing, Oklahoma and attended Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1989.
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Rubenstein grew up in Cushing, Oklahoma and attended Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1989.
From 1989-1991 he studied at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. In 1991 he completed an Master of Philisophy from Oxford, writing a thesis on the veneration of saints" relics in England after the Norman Conquest. In 1997, he received a Doctor of Philosophy 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.
2012 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award from Phi Beta Kappa for significant contributions to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity.
2007 MacArthur Fellows Program
2007 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
2006 American Council of Learned Societies Burkhardt Fellowship
2004 William Koren, Junior. Prize from the Society for French Historical Studies for the outstanding journal article published on any era of French history by a North American scholar
2002 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship.
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