Nina Caputo is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Florida. She received her B.A. and M.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Caputo is a scholar of medieval Jewish history and interfaith relations in medieval Europe. Her first book, Nahmanides in Medieval Catalonia: History, Community, Messianism (2007), explores the history of encounters between Jewish and Christian interpretations of history and redemption. She has also co-editied Faithful Narrative: The Challenge of Religion in History (forthcoming, Cornell 2013) with Dr Andrea Sterk. She is currently working on a book that uses Petrus Alfonsi to explore the figure of the convert and conversion in the Christian middle ages and on a short study of medieval commentaries on Genesis 6:1-4 and the motif of the nephiliim.