Present | Professor, East Tennessee State University ‐ Department of History | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Professional Service and Affiliations
2018 - Present | Discipline Representative for Humanism, Renaissance Society of America | 2017 - Present | Editorial Board, Cronachista e storiografia italiana | 2016 - Present | Founder and Co-Organizer, Appalachian Premodernists | 2016 - Present | Editorial Board, Testi: Antichità, Medioevo e Umanesimo (Università di Napoli Federico II) | 2016 - Present | Contributing Editor, Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies, “Quattrocento” section |
Honors and Awards
- J. William Fulbright Fellowship, Fall 2005- Spring 2006
- Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship, Fall 2007-Spring 2008
- ETSU College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Research Award, 2013-2014
- Lindsay Young Visiting Faculty Fellowship at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, May 2014
- Craig Hugh Smyth Visiting Fellowship at Villa I Tatti (The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy), April-June 2015
- Lila Wallace - Reader's Digest Lecture Program award through Villa I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, June 2015
- Visiting Professor for Teaching in English Grant, Universitat Jaume I, November 2015
- Andrew W. Mellon short-term fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society 2020-21
Courses
- The Crusades in Practice and Conception, 1050-2000 (Graduate Seminar)
- Renaissance Europe, 1300-1500 (Junior-level temporal survey)
- Early Medieval Europe (Graduate Seminar)
- Renaissance in Medieval Europe (Graduate Seminar)
- Renaissance Venice (Split senior seminar and graduate seminar)
- Historiography (Graduate Seminar)
- The Middle Ages, 1000-1300 (Junior-level temporal survey)
- World History to 1500 (Entry-level survey, taught online)
- Florence in the Age of Medici (Graduate Seminar)
- Magic and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe (Graduate Seminar)
- Crime and Criminals in Renaissance Italy (Graduate Seminar)
- Readings in Medieval and Early-Modern Europe (Graduate Seminar)
- Introduction to Historical Research (Graduate Seminar)
- The European Reformation (Graduate Seminar)
- The European Renaissance in History and Historical Imagination (Graduate Seminar)
- Teaching Pedagogy (Graduate Seminar)
- When East Meets West: The Crusades from Both Sides, 1050-1600 (Upper-division undergraduate seminar)
- Renaissance Florence (Upper-division undergraduate seminar)
- Renaissance Humanism (Upper-division undergraduate seminar)
- Renaissance and Reformation Europe (Upper-level undergraduate seminar)
- Historical Methodologies (Upper-division undergraduate seminar)
- Early Modern Europe (Upper-division undergraduate lecture course)
- European Civilization 1050-1750 (Undergraduate survey course)
- U.S. History to 1877 (Undergraduate survey course with honor’s section)
2008 | PhD, History, Northwestern University | |
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2003 | MA, History, Northwestern University | |
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2002 | BA, History, Michigan State University | |
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2002 | BA, Interdisciplinary Humanities, Michigan State University | |
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Contact Information
P.O. Box 70672
Johnson City, TN 37614
Phone: 423-439-6698
Office: Rogers-Stout Hall 206
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