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History: Paris, France
Medieval Paris

June 20 - July 15, 2008

Hist-Paris Instructor Bio

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A student of Joseph R. Strayer, Teo Ruiz received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1974 and has taught at Brooklyn College, the CUNY Graduate Center, the University of Michigan, the Ecole des hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Princeton--as 250th Anniversary Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching--before coming to UCLA in July 1998. A scholar of the social and cultural (popular culture) of late medieval and early modern Castile, Teo Ruiz's recent publications include A Social History of Spain, 1400-1600 (Longman, 2001). The second, From Heaven to Earth: The Reordering of Castilian Society in the Late Middle Ages (Princeton University Press, 2004).