CURRICULUM VITAE
Joel Kaye
Professor, Department of History
Barnard College
422-B Lehman Hall
(212) 854-4350
jkaye@barnard.edu
434 West 23rd Street
New York, NY 10011
(212) 929-1711
Degrees in Higher Education
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Ph.D. 1991
General Fields: Medieval Intellectual History;
Economic History; History of Science; Seventeenth Century Intellectual History.
Dissertation: "Quantification of Quality: The Impact of Money and Monetization on the Development of Scientific Thought in the Fourteenth Century."
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, M.A. 1984
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN AT MADISON, B.A. 1968
Professional Experience in Higher Education
BARNARD COLLEGE/COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, 2005-
Professor, Department of History
BARNARD COLLEGE/COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, 2000-05
Associate Professor, Department of History
BARNARD COLLEGE/COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, 1992-1999
Assistant Professor, Department of History.
UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY, 1991-92
Visiting Assistant Professor, History.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, 1990-91
Lecturer, Department of History
Academic and Professional Honors:
2007-08: Resident Fellowship, New York Public Library, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.
2004-05: Resident Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Princeton, N.J.
2004-05: (NEH) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.
2002: John Nicholas Brown Prize. Awarded annually by the Medieval Academy of America to the best first book in the area of medieval studies, for: Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
2001-02: (NSF) National Science Foundation, Science and Technology Studies. Year-long book project grant for: “Culture in the Balance. The Creation of a New Model of Equilibrium in Medieval Thought, 1225-1375.”
2000-01: (NEH) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.
2000: Visiting Scholar, The American Academy in Rome.
1995: Visiting Scholar, The American Academy in Rome.
1994: Gladys Brooks Prize. Barnard College. Excellence in Junior Faculty Teaching.
1990: Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize. Medieval Academy of America. Best published article by a first-time author in the area of medieval studies.
Current Membership in Professional Societies
American Historical Association
Medieval Academy of America
History of Science Society
Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
Publications
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“Law, Magic, and Science: Constructing a Border between Licit and Illicit Knowledge in the Writings of Nicole Oresme,” in Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe, ed. Ruth Karras, Joel Kaye, and E. Ann Matter (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008).
“The (Re)Balance of Nature, 1250-1350,” in Engaging with Nature: Essays on the Natural World in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Barbara Hanawalt and Lisa Kiser (The University of Notre Dame Press, 2008).
"Changing Definitions of Nature, Money, and Equality c. 1140-1270, Reflected in Thomas Aquinas' Questions on Usury" in Credito e usura fra teologia, diritto e amministatione. Linguaggi a confronto (sec. XII-XVI), ed. D. Quaglioni, G. Todeschini, and G.M. Varanini (École Française de Rome, 2005), 25-55.
“Money and Administrative Calculation as Reflected in Scholastic Natural Philosophy," in Arts of Calculation: Numerical Thought in Early Modern Europe, ed. David Glimp and Michelle Warren (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), 1-18.
“The Just Price,” in The Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Supplementary Volume 1, ed. William Jordan, Joel Kaye, and Lynn Staley (Scribner’s Sons, New York, 2004).
“The Power of Relative Thinking: Medieval Anticipations of Copernicus,” for Fathom Web Site, Columbia University, et al., Published, May, 2002.
Invited Lectures and Conference Presentations (Since 2000):
“Jean Buridan’s Speculations on Geology, Viewed through the Lens of Equilibrium,” University of Oklahoma, Program in the History of Science, October, 2008.
“Sources of Relativistic Thinking in the Middle Ages: The Marketplace and Medieval Galenism,” International Conference on Medieval Relativism and its Legacy, 1230-1450, University of Paris I, June, 2008.
“Toward a History of Balance: Models of Equilibrium and their Transformation, 1250-1375,” New York Academy of Sciences, Section for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, April, 2008.
"The (Re)Balance of Nature, 1225-1375," Ohio State University, Medieval Studies Lecture Series on Nature, April, 2005.
"Models of Equilibrium in the Middle Ages," Princeton University, Medieval Studies Series, April, 2005.
"Balancing the Metaphorical Account: Money as Medium and Instrument of Equalization," Medieval Academy of America, March, 2005.
"A World of Lines: The Shape of Money in the Middle Ages," University of British Columbia, Conference on the History and Philosophy of Money, November, 2004.
“Literary Reflections of Money and Market Exchange in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century,” University of Minnesota, Medieval Studies Program, November, 2003.
“Which Came First: Text or Context?” University of Minnesota, Seminar in Medieval History, November, 2003.
“Text and Context: Two Cases of Interplay,” Princeton University, Medieval Studies Series, March 2003.
“Cultural Effects of the Use of Money as Tool: Measurement in the Marketplace and the University Lecture Hall,” New England Medieval Conference, Dartmouth College, October, 2002.
“Changing Definitions of Nature, Money, and Equality and Their Effect on the Conceptualization of Usury, c. 1140- 1265,” International Conference on Usury, Università di Trento, Italy, September, 2001.
“Reflections of Bureaucratic Modes of Measurement in Medieval Natural Philosophy,” Conference on Calculation in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, University of Miami, February 2001.
“The Power of Relative Thinking: Medieval Anticipations of Copernicus,” Columbia University Lifetime Learners, April, 2000.
“Evolving Models of Equilibrium in Medieval Thought, 1250-1370,” Delaware Valley Medieval Association, February, 2000.