Teofilo F. Ruiz

Teofilo F. Ruiz teaches history at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (CUNY) and History and Spanish Medieval Literature at CUNY's Graduate Center. As a visiting Professor, he has also taught at the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Princeton University, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and in six NEH Summer Seminars throughout the US and abroad. He has been a frequent lecturer in the US, Canada, Spain, Italy, France, England, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina.

Professor Ruiz received a Ph.D in History from Princeton and has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and the American Council of Learned Societies. In 1994-94, he was selected as one of four Outstanding Teachers of the Year in the United States by the Carnegie Foundation. He has published five books and over thirty articles in national and international scholarly journals, plus over a hundred reviews and smaller articles. His latest book, Crisis and Continuity. Land and Town in Late Medieval Castile (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994) was awarded the Premio del Rey prize by the American Historical Association as the best book in Spanish history before 1580 within a two year period, 1994-95.