Teofilo F. Ruiz is a professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. Ruiz received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1974 and taught at Brooklyn College, the CUNY Graduate Center, the University of Michigan, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and Princeton University (as 250th Anniversary Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching) before joining the Department of History at UCLA in 1998. He has been a frequent lecturer in the United States, Spain, Italy, France, England, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. He served as chair of the history department from 2002 to 2005. He is presently chair of the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
A scholar of the social and cultural (popular culture) of late medieval and early modern Castile, Ruiz’s publications include Crisis and Continuity: Land and Town in Late Medieval Castile (U of Pennsylvania P, 1994), which was awarded the Premio del Rey Prize by the American Historical Association as the best book in Spanish history before 1580; Spanish Society, 1400-1600 (Longman, 2001; Spanish translation 2002); Spain: Centuries of Crises, 1300-1469 (Blackwell, 2007; Spanish translation 2008); The Terror of History: On the Uncertainties of Life in Western Civilization (Princeton UP, 2011); and Diario de la expedicion de Fray Junipero Serra desde la Misión de Loreto a San Diego, co-edited with Anglel Encinas (Madrid, 2011). Another book, Sites of Encounter and Cultural Production: The Western Mediterranean, c. 450 to the Present, is under contract with Blackwell. Ruiz 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, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies. He was selected as one of four Outstanding Teachers of the Year in the United States by the Carnegie Foundation in 1994-94 and as one of UCLA’s Distinguished Teachers in 2008. Ruiz was named a Phi Beta Kappa Scholar for 2011-12, and was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama in 2012. In April 2013, he was elected a fellow the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was elected a fellow of the Medieval Academy of America in 2012 and in April 2013, he was elected a fellow the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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