Historian of Medieval and Early Modern Europe
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
Northwestern University 2011–2017
Ph.D., History
Adviser: Prof. Dyan Elliott
Dissertation: “The Vicarious Middle Ages: Penitents and Their Proxies in Medieval Europe,
200-1550.”
Awarded the Harold Perkin Prize for Best Dissertation in History (2017).
Committee: Dyan Elliott (chair), Barbara Newman, Richard Kieckhefer, and Edward Muir
Major field: Medieval and Early Modern History (High Pass)
Minor field: Medieval Jewish and Islamic Mysticism (High Pass)
Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Cluster Member: 2011–2017
California State University, Fullerton 2009–2011
M.A., History
Adviser: Prof. Jochen Burgtorf
Thesis: “Past as Present: Paradisal Language in Medieval Reform”
University of Surrey, Roehampton (London, England) 2003
Studied Modern English and American Literature, Fall 2003
Biola University 2001–2005
B.A., English Literature
Minor in Modern European History
PUBLICATIONS
“Boy Becoming Man: Liturgical Inversion in the Boy Bishop Ceremony in Medieval England”
Forthcoming in Childhood in Medieval Culture, ed. Lahney Preston-Matto and Mary A. Valante.
“'Make a Pilgrimage for Me': The Role of Place in Late Medieval Proxy Pilgrimage”
In Travel, Time, and Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time. Volume 22 of Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, ed. Albrecht Classen and Marilyn Sandidge, 424-445. Boston/Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2018.
"Suffering Another's Sin: Proxy Penance in the Thirteenth Century."
Journal of Medieval History, 44.2 (2018): 202-230.
"Penitents and Their Proxies: Penance for Others in Early Medieval Europe."
Church History 86.1 (2017): 1-32.
Awarded the Sidney E. Mead Prize of the American Society of Church History(2016)
DIGITAL PROJECTS
"Proxy Pilgrimage Digital Visualization"
An interactive digital map of proxy pilgrimage including: origins, destinations, chronology, social status, and gender.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
"Penitents and Their Proxies in Medieval Europe, 200–1500"
Monograph
"Spirituality in the Middle: Courtly Theology in Twelfth-Century England"
Article
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, PRIZES, & AWARDS
Harold Perkin Prize for Best Dissertation, Northwestern University, History Department, 2017
Sidney E. Mead Prize (article prize), American Society of Church History, 2016
Schallek Award (research grant), Medieval Academy of America, 2015
Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant (research grant), American Historical Association, 2015
Schallek Fellow (Alternate), Medieval Academy of America, 2015
Graduate International Exchange, Institute for Historical Research (London), 2014
Teagle Teaching Fellow, Northwestern University, 2013–2014
Funded by the American Historical Association and the Teagle Foundation
Graduate Research Grant, Northwestern University, 2013
Graduate Research Fund Grant, California State University, Fullerton, 2011
Associated Students Research Grant, California State University, Fullerton, 2011
Lawrence B. de Graaf Outstanding Graduate Student Award, California State University, Fullerton, 2010
First prize, The J. O. Henry Award for History, Biola University, 2005
PAPERS PRESENTED (selection)
“Proxy Pilgrimage in Late Medieval and Early Modern England"
14th International Symposium on Medieval and Early Modern Studies, U. of Arizona, May 2017
“Past as Present: Nostalgia and the Role of Eden in Medieval Religious Reform”
American Society of Church History and American Catholic Historical Association, Spring Meeting,
Berkeley, April 2017
“The Violence of Charity: Proxy Penance in Thirteenth-Century Female Hagiography”
Fifth Annual Graduate Conference on Religion, Harvard Divinity School, October 2016
“Fasting for Others: Completing Penance by Proxy in the Early Middle Ages”
International Congress on the Study of the European Middle Ages, Leeds, UK, July 2016
“The Vicarious Middle Ages: Penitents and Their Proxies in Medieval Europe”
Seminar on Medieval Culture and Intellect, Chicago, IL, March 2016
“Penitents and Their Proxies: Penance for Others in Early Medieval Europe”
California Medieval History Seminar, Huntington Library, CA, November 2015
“The Good, the Bad, and the Bee: Walter Map’s Courtly Virtues in the De Nugis Curialium”
Medieval Academy of America, Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, March 2012
“Writing in the Court: A Guide to Virtuous Reading in Walter Map’s De Nugis Curialium”
46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2011
“Longing for Paradise: Past as Present in Medieval Reform”
Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Chapman University, CA, April 2011
“Where is Eden? The Search for a Terrestrial Paradise in the Medieval World”
Graduate Seminar, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, Collegeville, MN, March 2011
“Past as Present: Paradisal Language in Medieval Reform”
Graduate Seminar, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, Collegeville, MN, March 2011
“Preparing for an Unpopular Crusade: The Last Acts of Lord Edward of England at Home, 1266-1270,”
Phi Alpha Theta 2010 Biennial Convention, San Diego, January 2010
INVITED LECTURES
"Erasmus and Luther and the Battle Over Free Will"
Azusa Pacific University, Honors College, 2017 and 2018
"Teresa of Avila: Mystic and Doctor"
Azusa Pacific University, Honors College, 2018
"The Violence of Charity: Proxy Penance in the Lives of Thirteenth-Century Holy Women"
St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN, 2017
EDITING EXPERIENCE
Editorial Assistant 2016
Journal of Ghana Studies
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Faculty Tutor, Honors College 2017–present
Azusa Pacific University
Honors Core II and III Courses, including:
Medieval, early modern, and modern (ca. 500–1900) history,
literature, philosophy, and theology
Teaching Assistant 2012–2014
Northwestern University
Sex and Scandal in Early Modern England
Western Civilization, 1000–1750
Global History Part One, 600–1800
California State University, Fullerton 2010
Honors Western Civilization
TEACHING FIELDS
Medieval and Early Modern European History, 1000–1750
Global History, 600–1800
Early Middle Ages, 300–1100
High Middle Ages, 1100–1250
Late Middle Ages, 1250–1500
Holy Wars in the Middle Ages
History of Christianity: Early Church to Age of Tolerance
Comparative Religion: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
Early Islamic History
State Formation: From Charlemagne to the British Empire
RESEARCH FIELDS
Religious proxy, vicariousness, and substitution
Penance and confession (early church to Reformation)
Pilgrimage (early church to Reformation; Christian and Islamic contexts)
Scholastic Theology
Church, politics, and conflict
Female spirituality
Paradise (early church to Reformation)
Late-medieval England
Monastic and ecclesiastical reform movements
LANGUAGES
Latin (advanced reading knowledge)
Modern French (reading knowledge)
Modern German (reading knowledge)
Modern Spanish (basic grammar and vocabulary)
ADVANCED SEMINARS
Dissertation Seminar for Historians
Newberry Library, Center for Renaissance Studies, Fall 2014
Reading the Early Modern Anglo-Muslim Archive: The Poetics and Politics of Cultural Translation
Newberry Library, Center for Renaissance Studies, September 2012
Paleography and Manuscript Graduate Seminar
Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, Collegeville, MN, 2011
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Medieval Academy of America
American Historical Association
American Society of Church History
Hagiography Society
Phi Alpha Theta
REFERENCES
*Please find references in the PDF at the top of this page.