EDUCATION
Ph.D. Medieval History, Catholic University of America
M.A., Medieval & Byzantine Studies, Catholic University of America
B.A., History, University of Dallas
RECENT COURSES
HIS 2301 Western Civilization I
HIS 2302 Western Civilization II
HIS 3303 Ancient Greece
HIS 3304 Roman Republic
HIS 3305 Roman Empire
HIS 4357 History of Jerusalem
HIS 4357 Mediterranean World
HIS 4357 Medieval Spirituality
PUBLICATIONS
“Pilgrims, Custodians, and the Eastern Churches: Variable Christian Relations Surrounding
the Fourteenth-Century Franciscan Foundation in the Holy Land” in A Contested Coexistence: Historical, Theological, and Linguistic Insights into Arabic
Christianity, edited by Ryann Craig and Vasile-Octavian Mihoc Harrassowitz, forthcoming.
“The Impact of Charlemagne on the Native Literary Tradition in the North” by Claudia Bornholdt and Jon Paul Heyne in Charlemagne in the Norse and Celtic Worlds, edited by Helen Fulton and Sif Rikhardsdottir. Boydell & Brewer, forthcoming.
PRESENTATIONS
Encountering the Religious ‘Other’ in Fourteenth-Century Jerusalem (session organizer
and presenter), International Medieval Congress, Leeds July 2017
Sancia and the Holy Places: Conflicts between Politics and Personal Spirituality in the Late Medieval Mediterranean 52nd International Congress, Kalamazoo May 2017
Queen Sancia and the Franciscans of the Holy Land: The Western Contest for Fourteenth-century Jerusalem 55th SEMA Annual Conference Oct. 2016