Deborah Jo Miller
Curriculum Vitae
October 1998

Department of Near Eastern Studies
360 Rockefeller Hall, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853-2502
E-mail: djm8@cornell.edu

Education

Ph.D. Cornell University Department of History, expected June 1999

"Marian Devotion, Ritual Murder, and the Roots of Antisemitism in England, 1135-1260"

Advisors: Professors James J. John, Kenneth R. Stow, Ross Brann, John Najemy

M.A. Cornell University Department of History, May 1994

Fields: Medieval History, Jewish Studies, English History

M.Phil. University of Cambridge (Queens' College), Medieval History, August 1990

"The Development of the 'Ritual Murder' Accusation in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries and its Relationship to the Changing Attitudes of Christians Toward Jews"

B.A. Yale University Department of History, May 1988

"Exire Fecimus Regnum Nostrum: The Expulsion of the Jews from England"

Honors

Jules and Lynn Korda Kroll Fellowship in Jewish Studies
through the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, 1998-1999
Clark Award for Excellence in Teaching Nomination, 1997 and 1998
John S. Knight Assignment Sequence Honorable Mention), 1997
Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities (Five-Year), 1991-1996
Avalon Travel Grant (for research in the United Kingdom), 1994-1995
Herman Karpel Memorial Prize for Excellence in Hebrew, 1993
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Grant, 1992
Fulbright Fellowship (England), 1990-1991
Honours in the Degree of Master of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, 1991
Magna Cum Laude, Yale University, 1988
Distinction in the History Major, Yale University, 1988

Teaching Experience

Instructor

History 100.81

"The Formation of a Persecuting Society: Intolerance and the Birth of Europe"

Department of History and John. S. Knight Writing Program

Cornell University, Spring 1997

Teaching Assistant

Near Eastern Studies 339/Jewish Studies 339 (Writing in the Majors Program)

"Muslims, Christians and Jews in Islamic Spain"

Professor Ross Brann

Cornell University, Spring 1998

History 254/Near Eastern Studies 257

"Islamic History 600-1258"

Professor David Powers

Cornell University, Fall 1993 and Fall 1997

History 368

"Marriage and Sexuality in Medieval Europe"

Professor Paul Hyams

Cornell University, Spring 1994

Publications

Book Review: Anna Sapir Abulafia, Christians and Jews in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance.
Jewish History, 10:2 (Fall 1996), pp. 139-41.

"Kalevala" (book chapter)
Epics for Students, ed. Marie Lazzari (Detroit: Gale Research, 1997), pp. 205-35.

Scholarly Presentations, Conferences, Invited Lectures

Radio

Panelist on the nationally syndicated radio program Extension 720

WGN, Chicago, 7 March 1995

Topic: The History of Antisemitism

Hosted by Professor Milton Rosenberg, University of Chicago

Guest Lecture

"Thomas of Monmouth's Libel"

History 498: "Origins of Antisemitism"

Professor Robert C. Stacey

University of Washington, Seattle, May 1995

Papers Delivered

"Using the Web in Freshmen Writing Seminars"

Cornell University Electronic Media Center, October 1997

"Cults and Conspiracy Theories: Hagiographical Mythmaking in Twelfth-Century England"

Mellon Seminar, Cornell University. November 1996

"Patterns of Anti-Jewish Violence in the Wake of the Earliest Ritual Murder Accusations"

Fordham University Conference on "Violence in the Middle Ages," April 1994

"Violence and Belief: Exploring the Relationship between Antisemitism and Action in the Middle Ages"

Cornell University Conference on "Violence, Culture and the State," April 1994

Session Chair, "The Economy of Telling Tales"

Medieval Colloquium, Cornell University, February 1994

"Genders, Bodies, Borders: A Response to the April, 1993 Speculum"

Mellon Seminar, Cornell University,April, 1993

"Prolegomena to a Study of Ritual Murder Accusations"

Medieval Colloquium, Cornell University, February 1993

Guest Lectures Organized at Cornell

Renaissance Colloquium: "Conversion and Confrontation: Christians, Conversos, and Jews in Sixteenth-Century Italy"

Professors Anna Foa, University of Rome, Kenneth R. Stow, University of Haifa,

and Barbara Wisch, SUNY Cortland, November 1996

"Holy Body, Holy Community:Conflicting Medieval Structural Perceptions"

Professor Kenneth R. Stow, University of Haifa, November 1993

"The History of Angels from Abraham to Aquinas"

Professor Henry Mayr-Harting, St Peter's College, University of Oxford, March 1992

Instructional Webpage Design

Islamic History 600-1258
Islamic Spain
Medieval History Seminar
Near Eastern Studies
Jewish Studies Program

Membership in Professional Organizations

Editorial Board, History of Antisemitism List (H-Antisemitism)
American Historical Association
Medieval Academy
HTML Writers Guild
Former member, Jewish Historical Society of England and the Ecclesiastical History Society

Other Work, 1997-present

Web Technical Designer, Cornell University Alumni Affairs and Development
Graduate Assistant, Olin-Kroch-Uris Library Electronic Text Center
Teacher, proofreader, writer, and editor, Kaplan Educational Centers
Class Secretary, Yale University Class of 1988

Languages

French, German, Latin, HTML, some Hebrew, and reading knowledge of Italian and Spanish

References available upon request.

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