CURRENT POSITION
Assistant Professor of Medieval History, Department of History, Carleton College, 1999-
Co-director, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Carleton College, 1999-
EDUCATION
Ph.D. History, University of California, Berkeley, 1998
Dissertation: "In the Shadows of Reform: Exegesis and the Formation of a Clerical Elite in the Works of Bruno, Bishop of Segni (1078/9-1123)," directed by G. Caspary.
M.A. History, University of California, Berkeley, 1992
A.B. Religion, Princeton University, 1989 (with highest honors)
FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS
Fellow in Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, 1998/9
Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship, 1997/1998
Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, 1995/1996
Berkeley Fellowship (5-year graduate fellowship), 1989/1996
Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities (Honorary), 1989
Phi Beta Kappa
OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE & AWARDS
Special Instructor, AP World History, Carleton College AP Summer Seminar, 2001
Special Instructor in medieval history, California History-Social Science Project Workshop for 7th Grade History Instructors. U.C. Berkeley, Summer 1995.
Graduate Student Instructor. Department of History. UC Berkeley
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant, Robbins Collection in Religious and Civil Law, School of Law, U.C. Berkeley, 1997.
Assistant to Prof. Susanna Elm, U.C. Berkeley,1996/1997. Responsible for organizational aspects of conference "Charisma and Society: The 25th Anniversary of Peter Brown's Analysis of the Late Antique Holy Man, 13-16 March 1997, U.C. Berkeley.
LANGUAGES
Latin, Greek, Italian, German, French, Spanish
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Historical Association; Byzantine Studies Conference; Medieval Academy of America; Medieval Association of the Midwest; American Catholic Historical Association; Charles Homer Haskins Society; Society for Italian Historical Studies