Current and Past Positions

2007-present   Associate Professor, Department of History, Ohio University

2002-2007       Assistant Professor, Department of History, Ohio University

1999-2002       Assistant Professor, Department of History, Northern Illinois University

Education

1999                Ph.D. History and Program in the Ancient World, Princeton University

1996                M.A. History and Program in the Ancient World, Princeton University

1993                B.A. History and Classical Civilization, Mary Washington College

Awards and Honors

2010                American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship

2010                Italian Academy for Advanced Studies Fellowship, Columbia University (declined)

2007                Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome

2005                Faculty Development Award, Ohio University

2002                Mellon Fellowship for Junior Faculty, American Council of Learned Societies

2002                Mellon Fellowship, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame (declined)

2001                Council for Humanities Summer Research Stipend, Northern Illinois University

2000                Multicultural Curriculum Transformation Institute, Northern Illinois University

1998                University Center for Human Values Junior Fellowship, Princeton University

1997                Graduate Seminar Fellowship, American Numismatic Society

1994                Stanley J. Seeger Fellowship in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University

1993                Departmental and Final Honors, History & Classical Studies

1993                Outstanding Historical Research Award, Mary Washington College

1992                Latin Summer Studies Fellowship, City University of New York

Publications

Books

2007. Expectations of Justice in the Age of Augustine. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Reviewed in American Historical Review, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, Catholic Historical Review, Choice, Early Medieval Europe, Estudios humanísticos, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Journal of Roman Studies, Speculum.

Articles and Essays

forthcoming April 2011. "Justice and Equality," in The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity, ed. S. Johnson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, submitted to the editor.

forthcoming December 2010. "Barbarian Traffic, Demon Oaths, and Christian Scruples (Aug. Ep. 46-47)," in Romans and Barbarians, ed. R. W. Mathisen, D. Shanzer. Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, submitted to the editors.

2010. "The Sinful Subject: Doing Penance in Rome," Studia Patristica 44: 405-414.

2009. "Pope Leo I on Power and Failure," Catholic Historical Review 95(4): 671-88.

2008. "Juridical Administration in the Church and Pastoral Care in Late Antiquity," in A New History of Penance, ed. A. Firey. Leiden: Brill. Pp. 97-120.

2001. "Quasi-Imperial Coinage and the Administration of Merovingian Provence," in Society and Culture in Late Antique Gaul: Revisiting the Sources, ed. R. W. Mathisen, D. Shanzer. Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Variorum. Pp. 134-65.

1999. "Proof and Reproof: The Judicial Component of Episcopal Confrontation," Early Medieval Europe 8: 1-11.

Reviews and Other Publishing Activity

forthcoming 2011. Review of Richard Price and Mary Whitby (eds.), Chalcedon in Context: Church Councils 400-700 (Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2009); Richard Price (ed.), The Acts of the Council of Constantinople, ed. Richard Price, 2 vols. (Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2009), in Early Medieval Europe, submitted to the editors.

forthcoming 2010. Review of Carlos García Mac Gaw, Le problème du baptême dans le schisme donatiste (Paris: De Boccard, 2008), in Journal of Ecclesiastical History, submitted to the editors.

2010. "Review Essay: Penance, Politics, and Historians" [review of Mayke de Jong, The Penitential State: Authority and Atonement in the Age of Louis the Pious, 814–840 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009); Courtney Booker, Past Convictions: The Penance of Louis the Pious and the Decline of the Carolingians (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009); Natalie Molineaux, Medici et Medicamenta: The Medicine of Penance in Late Antiquity (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2009)], in The Medieval Review 10.06.06.

2010. Review of Eric Gregory, Politics and the order of love: An Augustinian ethic of democratic citizenship (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), in Journal of Ecclesiastical History 61(1): 217-18.

2009. Review of Chiara Torre (ed., trans., comm.), Martini Bracarensis De ira: introduzione, testo, traduzione e commento [Studi e testi tardoantichi; 7] (Rome: Herder, 2008), in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.10.45.

2009. Review of Philippe Henne, Léon le Grand (Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 2008), in Catholic Historical Review 95(4): 786-7.

2009 [for 2008]. Review of Noel Lenski (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), in Phoenix 62: 412-14.

2008. Review of Peter Norton, Episcopal Elections 250-600: Hierarchy and Popular Will in Late Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), in Church History 77(4): 1025-7.

2008. Review of Caroline Humfress, Orthodoxy and the Courts in Late Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), in Catholic Historical Review 94(4): 776-7.

2008. "Franks" and "Lombards," in World Book Encyclopedia.  Chicago: World Book.

2004. "Brunhild," "Euskara," "Fredegunda," "Hypatia," "Latifundia," "Martin of Tours, St.," "Original Sin," "Ovens," "Radegunda, St.," "Tonsure," in Dictionary of the Middle Ages: Supplement 1, ed. W. C. Jordan. New York: Scribner's. Pp. 81-2, 190-1, 203-4, 286-7, 306-7, 370-1, 434-7, 449-50, 518-19, 609-10.

Papers and Lectures

2011 Center for Late Ancient Studies Symposium, Duke University, February 18 (Durham, NC).

2010 "Ambrosiaster and 'You' (Q. 102, Contra Novatianum)," North American Patristics Society, May 27-29 (Chicago, IL).

2009 "The Feeling of Regret, ca. 400-600," Medieval Academy, 26-28 March (Chicago, IL).

2008 "Leo I on the ‘True Justice of the Perfect’ (Serm. 40.1)," North American Patristics Society, May 22-24 (Chicago, IL).

2008 "Gender and Martyrdom in Late Antiquity (The Passio Anastasiae)," Women's Studies Colloquium, Ohio University, 18 April (Athens, OH).

2008 "Sin, Novelty, and History," Inauguration Address, Phi Alpha Theta Society, Ohio University, 10 April (Athens, OH).

2008 "Control over Forgiveness: Varieties of Penance in Late Antiquity," American Society of Church History / American Historical Association, January 6 (Washington, D.C.).

2007 "A New Look at the Epigraphic Evidence for Early Medieval Penance," Texts and Contexts, Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, Ohio State University, October 26-27 (Columbus, OH).

2007 "The Sinful Subject: Doing Penance in Rome," 15th International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford University, August 7-10 (Oxford, UK).

2007 "Sinners and Penitents in Late Antiquity," American Academy in Rome, 24 January (Rome, Italy).

2006 "Christian Problems with Sex and Forgiveness," 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, MI).

2006 "Failure of Authority, Triumph of Forgiveness in the Early Church," Late Antiquity Research Seminar, University of Tennessee (Knoxville, TN).

2005 "Bishops, Discernment, and the Law," 31st Annual Byzantine Studies Conference (Athens, GA).

2005 "Barbarian Traffic, Demon Oaths, and Christian Scruples: Aug. Ep. 46-47," Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity VI (Urbana, IL).

2005 "The Search for Life in the Dark Ages," Classics & World Religion Undergraduate Seminar, Ohio University (Athens, OH).

2004 "The Failure of Justice: Bishops at Work between Legal Cultures," International Medieval Conference (Leeds, UK).

2004 "How Christians handled justice in early medieval Europe: theory and practice," Charles J. Ping Institute for the Teaching of the Humanities: "Plain Language" Humanities Talk, Ohio University (Athens, OH).

2001 "Christian Morality and Judicial Process: The Early Medieval Exemplar of  Susanna," Midwest Medieval History Conference (St. Louis, MO).

2001 "Social History between Liturgy and the Law," 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, MI).

2000 "Performing Penance in the Early Middle Ages," William S. Paley Lecture in Ancient History and Medieval Studies, Tulane University (New Orleans, LA).

2000 "Penance and the Public in Early Medieval Society," Early Medieval Europe Research Group 2000 (Edinburgh, UK).

2000 "The Pagan Regulus and Augustine's Rules for Swearing (Augustine, DCD 1.15 and 24)," North American Patristics Society (Chicago, IL).

1998 "Adhibe Medicinale Purgatorium: Late Antique Oaths and Private Spirituality," Byzantine Studies Conference (Lexington, KY).

1998 "The Quasi-Imperial Coinage of Merovingian Provence," 33rd International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, MI).

1997 "Proof and Reproof: The Repertoire of Confrontational Bishops," Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity II (Columbia, SC).