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Jessica Marin Elliott

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Medieval History


Graduate Student
B.A., Boston University

Advisor: Sharon Farmer

This is my eighth year in the history department at UCSB, specializing in the interactions between Jews and Christians in medieval France. In 2010–2011, I held a Chateaubriand Fellowship from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs that enabled me to complete the archival and manuscript research for my dissertation on the conversion of Jews to Christianity in 13th- and 14th-century Northern France. I am currently in Santa Barbara, teaching for the UCSB Writing Program, and will finish the dissertation with funding from UCSB Graduate Division this spring.

Dissertation Title

  • "The Changing Status of Converted Jews in 13th- and 14th-Century Northern France"

Teaching Fields

  • Jewish-Christian Interaction in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
  • Medieval France
  • Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Europe
  • World History
  • Jewish History and Culture

Courses Taught

  • HIST 114B: History of Christianity, 800–1300
  • HIST 115: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe, 300–1050
  • WRIT 2: Introduction to Academic Writing

Teaching Assistantships

  • Honors Teaching Assistant, 2008–2009
    Western Civilization, Prehistory–1050 CE; World History, 1000 CE–1700 CE
  • Teaching Assistant, 2006–2011
    Western Civilization, Prehistory–1050 CE and 1050 CE–1715 CE; World History, Prehistory–1000 CE and 1000 CE–1700 CE

Publications

  • “Jews ‘feigning devotion’: Christian Representations of Converted Jews in French Chronicles before and after the Expulsion of 1306.”
    Article under review for Jews and Christians in 13th-Century France: Culture, Society and Mutual Perceptions (Palgrave Macmillan).
  • Chronology and glossary, prepared for Simone Roux, Paris in the Middle Ages, trans. by Jo Ann McNamara (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009).

Awards

  • Dissertation Grant for Research in Jewish Studies
    The Targum Shlishi Foundation, 2012
  • Bourse Chateaubriand for Dissertation Research in France
    The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2010-2011
  • Fulbright Research Grant, France (declined)
    2010-2011
  • Humanities and Social Science Research Grant
    UCSB Graduate Division, 2010-2011
  • UC Regents Special Fellowship
    University of California, 2005-2010

Conference Presentations

  • “‘Jews feigning devotion’: Christian Fears about Converted Jews in France after the Expulsion of 1306”
    Presented at Fear and Loathing in the Middle Ages, Medieval Studies Graduate Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, April 28, 2012.
  • “‘Iudaei devocionem simulantes’?: Representations of Converted Jews in French Chronicles before and after the Expulsion of 1306"
    Presented at the Historical Society of Israel Medieval Graduate Workshop, The Shazar Center for Jewish History, Jerusalem, February 13, 2011; earlier version presented at the California Medieval History Seminar, San Marino, California, May 15, 2010.
  • “The Integration of Converted Jews into the Working World of Late Thirteenth-Century Paris"
    Presented at the 43rd Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 9, 2008; earlier version presented at the 6th Annual UCSB Medieval Studies Graduate Student Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, 2007.

University Service

  • Lead Teaching Assistant for the UCSB History Department
    2008-2009