One of my goals as a librarian is that students become aware of the resources available to them as students and learn to use them to make the most of their educational and personal experiences at WMU. I oversee the Special Collections and Rare Book Department, teach occasionally through the Honors College and Medieval Studies programs and conduct research on devote medieval women and reading practice, manuscripts and best practices in describing, protecting and teaching with rare materials. I joined WMU Libraries in August 2006.
Articles
Developing a Premodern Manuscript Application Profile using Dublin Core (with Sheila Bair), Journal of Library Metadata (2013)
Medieval Manuscript Facsimilies in an Undergraduate Medieval Studie Core Collection, Against the Grain (2013)
Accessing Resources in Cistercian Studies (with Sheila Bair), Cistercian Studies Quarterly (2011)
Instruction and Experimentation in the Library: A Case Study (with Matthew T. Brodhead), The Journal of Library Innovation (2010)
Family Strategies: Financial Planning and the Urban Widow, 1100-1500, Essays in Medieval Studies (2010)
Contributions to Books
The Herkenrode Antiphonary: Manuscript and Contract (with Micah A. Erwin), Monastery and Entrepreneurship (2013)
Practical Pastoral Care: Vowesses in Northern England in the Later Middle Ages, Pastoral Care in the Later Middle Ages (2010)
Identifying Chaste Widows: Documenting a religious vocation, The Ties that Bind: Essays in Medieval British History in Honor of Barbara Hanawalt (2010)
Presentations
'Thys Boke Gyffys dame Margaret Cokfeld to Marget Byngham': A religious widow and a devotional manuscript, Medieval Academy of America (2012)
Towards a Premodern Manuscript Application Profile (with Sheila Bair), International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2010 (2010)
Widows in the Monastery: The Case of Santa Susanna, Mid-America Medieval Association Conference (2010)