Curriculum Vitae

 

Jarbel Rodriguez

Associate Professor of Medieval History
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94132

Education
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
September 1990 - May 1994: Bachelor of Arts in History with Honors
September 1994 - May 1996: Master of Arts
Thesis Title: The Formation of a Christian Death Culture in the Middle Ages
Major Field: Medieval Europe
Minor Field: Renaissance Europe
Minor Field: Colonial Latin America

Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
Sept. 1996 - May 1998: Master of Arts with Distinction
Major Field: Medieval Europe
Minor Field: Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Minor Field: Colonial Latin America
May 1998 - Jul. 2001: Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Prisoners of Faith: Christian Captives in the Later Middle Ages

Areas of Training, Research, and Teaching

• Early Medieval Europe
• High Medieval Europe
• Medieval and Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean
• Renaissance Europe
• Pre-Modern Slavery
• Christian / Muslim Relations.

Professional Experience

• 1994 - 1996: University of Miami / Teaching Assistant, Department of History
• 2001 - 2007: San Francisco State University / Assistant Professor, Department of History
• 2007 - Present: San Francisco State University / Associate Professor, Department of History

Courses Taught

• HIST 110 - Western Civilization to 1500
• HIST 300 - Seminar in Historical Analysis
• HIST 330 - The Early Middle Ages
• HIST 331 - The High Middle Ages
• HIST 334 - The Renaissance
• HIST 349 - Medieval Popular Beliefs
• HIST 640 - Proseminar, Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval Europe
• HIST 640 - Proseminar, Intolerance and Persecution in Medieval Europe
• HIST 640 - Proseminar, The Crusades
• HIST 640 - Proseminar, The Black Death
• HIST 700 - History as a Field of Knowledge
• HIST 710 - Graduate Seminar, The Crusades
• HIST 710 - Graduate Seminar, The Black Death
• HIST 710 - Graduate Seminar, Crime and Punishment in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
• HIST 720 - Graduate Seminar, Imagining the Middle Ages
• HIST 720 - Graduate Seminar, Interfaith Spain

Honors and Awards

• 2010: NEH Summer Seminar, Barcelona, Spain
• 2007: SFSU Sabbatical Leave (fall)
• 2005: SFSU Presidential Award for Professional Development
• 2003 & 2004: Certificate of Appreciation, Office of Student Programs Leadership & Development
• Summer 2002: San Francisco State Spring-Summer Stipend 2002
• Spring 2002: San Francisco State Spring 2002 Assigned Time Award
• 2000-2001: Princeton University Center for Human Values Fellow
• 2000-2001: Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities
• 1999-2000: Fulbright Fellowship in Spain
• 1999-2000: Spanish Ministry of Culture Research Grant
• 1999, 2000 and 2001: Princeton University Graduate School Summer Grant
• 1998-1999: Rollins Prize, Princeton University
• 1997-2000: Graduate Fellowship
• 1997-1998: Davis Merit Prize
• 1996-1997: President's Fellowship, Princeton University
• 1994-1996: University of Miami Graduate Fellowship
• 1990-1994: University of Miami Undergraduate Fellowship
• 1990-1994: Florida Scholar Undergraduate Fellowship

Professional and Civic Activities

• 2011-: Technology Committee, College of Arts and Humanities
• 2011-: Technology Committee, Department of History, SFSU
• 2009-Present: Long Range Planning Committee, Department of History, SFSU
• 2009: BSS College, Sabbatical and Leave Committee
• 2008-Present: Hiring Committee, Department of History, SFSU
• 2008-2010: RTP Committee, Department of History, SFSU
• 2007-2011: BSS College Methods/Technology Committee
• 2007-2011: Graduate Coordinator, Department of History, SFSU
• 2005-2006: Hiring Committee, Late Antiquity/Early Middle Ages Position, Department of History, SFSU
• 2005-2007: Merage Fellowship Committee, SFSU
• 2004-2008: Advisory Board, Friends of the J. P. Leonard Library
• 2004-2011: College of BSS Graduate Coordinator Council
• 2004-2006: Councilor, Medieval Association of the Pacific
• 2004-2006: Hiring Committee, Department of History, SFSU
• 2004-2005: Program Committee for the Medieval Association of the Pacific Annual Conference
• 2004-2005: Co-Chair, Local Organizing Committee for the Medieval Association of the Pacific Annual Conference held at SFSU, March 2005
• 2004: Advisor, Phi Alpha Theta (History Honors Society)
• 2003-2006: Technology Committee, Department of History, SFSU
• 2003: Chair Re-Election Committee, Department of History, SFSU
• 2002-2003: Curriculum Steering Committee for Islamic & Arab Studies Program, SFSU
• 2002-2007: Associate Graduate Coordinator, Department of History, SFSU
• 2002-2004: Curriculum Committee, Department of History, SFSU
• 2002-2003: Social Committee, Department of History, SFSU
• 2001-2002: Local Organizing Committee for the American Historical Association Annual Meeting held in San Francisco, January 3-6, 2002
• 2001-2011: Seg. III Coordinator for "Medieval & Renaissance Studies" Cluster
• 2001-2004: Advisor, History Student Association, SFSU
• 2001-Present: Graduate Committee, Department of History, SFSU
• 2001-2011: Finance/Endowment Committee, Department of History, SFSU
• Spring 1999: Conference Organizer for "Dying and the Hope for Life": Graduate Student Conference, Princeton University

Publications

• “Conversion Anxieties in the Crown of Aragon in the Later Middle Ages” in Al-Masāq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean 22 (2010) 315-324
• Christians and Muslims in the Medieval World: A Reader (in progress, University of Toronto Press)
• Knights in History and Legend, Contributor, (Firefly Books, 2009)
• Exchanges: A Global History, Volume I with Trevor Getz and Richard Hoffman (Prentice Hall, 2008)
• Captives and their Saviors in the Medieval Crown of Aragon (Catholic University Press, 2007)
• "Financing a Captive's Ransom in Late Medieval Spain" in Medieval Encounters 9 (2003) 162-179
• "Admiral"; "Alfonsi, Petrus"; "Alfonso V"; "Bursfeld Abbey"; "Capitulations"; "Caspe, Treaty of"; "Deguileville, Guillaume de"; "Dracontius, Blossius Aemilius"; "Eanes de Zurara, Gomes"; "Ferdinand III of Castile"; "Finnsburh Fragment"; "Franc, Martin le"; "Gragas"; "Henry the Navigator, Prince"; "James I of Aragón"; "Juglaria"; "Lisbon"; "Mercedarians"; "Navas de Tolosa, Las"; "Peraldus, William"; "Peter III of Aragón"; "Torquemada, Juan de"; "Torquemada, Tomas de"; "Trinitarians"; "Wallace William" in Dictionary of the Middle Ages - Supplement (Scribner's, 2003)

Reviews

• Review of Maribel Fierro and Francisco García Fitz, eds. El cuerpo derrotado: Cómo trataban musulmanes y cristianos a enemigos vencidos in De Re Militari [electronic source]
• Review of Debra Blumenthal’s Enemies and Familiars: Slavery and Mastery in Fifteenth Century Valencia in AARHMS Newsletter (Fall 2009)
• Review of Judi Upton-Ward's The Military Orders: Volume 4, On Land and by Sea in De Re Militari [electronic source] November 2009
• Review of Robert Davis' Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters in the International Journal of Maritime History XVI (2004) 410-411
• Review of Pamela Porter's Courtly Love in Medieval Manuscripts forthcoming in Journal of the History of Sexuality 13 (2004) 539-540
• Review of Anthony Lappin's The Medieval Cult of Saint Dominic of Silos in The Medieval Review [electronic source] March 2003

Presentations

• "The Rhetoric of Religious Conversion in the Crown of Aragon" in American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, January 9, 2011
• "Religious Hybrids: Converts and Renegades in Medieval Iberia" in NEH Summer Institute, Cultural Hybridities: Christians, Muslims, and Jews and the Medieval Mediterranean, Barcelona, Spain, July 30, 2010
• "Man, Nature and the Environment in the Middle Ages” Part of “Encountering Nature in World History” lecture series for ORIAS Summer Teacher’s Institute, July 24, 2006.
• "War and its Influence on Representative Government, Nationalism and Citizenship in the Middle Ages” Part of “Citizenship and Identity in U.S. History” lecture series for San Francisco Unified School District and the Teaching American History Grant, June 22, 2006.
• "An Ethnic History of Spain” Public Talk at United States Mint, San Francisco, September 15, 2005.
• "Merchants and Ransom Networks in the 14th and 15th Century Western Mediterranean" in Bondage, Subjugation and the New Slavery in Comparative World Perspective, University of California, Davis, May 28-29, 2004.
• "Medieval Literacy and the Holdings of the DeBellis Collection at San Francisco State University" for the History of the Book Public Lecture Series, San Francisco, CA, March 26 2003.
• "Christian Fear of Renegades in Late Medieval Spain" in the 12th Annual Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Symposium - "Islam," Miami, FL, February 21, 2003
• "Financing a Captive's Ransom in Late Medieval Aragón" given as part of the University of Miami, Phi-Alpha-Theta Lecture Series, Miami, FL, February 20, 2003
• "Merchants and the Ransoming of Captives in Medieval Spain" in the Medieval Association of the Pacific, San Diego, CA, March 22, 2002
• "The Everyday Lives of Christian Captives in Muslim Granada and North Africa" for the Princeton University Center for Human Values, Princeton, NJ, October 2000

 

Revised: Sunday, January 8, 2012