Present | Faculty Member, Georgia Southern University ‐ Department of History | |
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Research Interests
Grants
2021 - Present | Georgia Southern University Faculty Research Committee Scholarly Pursuit Award |
Georgia Southern University | |
$4,894 | |
2018 | Princeton University Library Visiting Research Fellowship |
Princeton University | |
Role: PI | |
$3,395 | |
2016 | Yale University Beinecke Library Visiting Research Fellowship |
Yale University | |
Role: PI | |
$4,000 | |
2013 | Newberry Library Short-Term Fellowship |
Newberry Library | |
Role: PI | |
$2,000 | |
2010 - 2011 | Georgia Southern University CLASS Faculty Seed Grant |
Georgia Southern University | |
Role: PI | |
$5,000 | |
2010 | Center for Excellence in Teaching Grant for Professional Travel |
Center for Excellence in Teaching, Georgia Southern University | |
$954 | |
2010 | Folger Shakespeare Library, Mascioli Short-Term Fellowship |
Folger Shakespeare Library | |
Role: PI | |
$2,500 | |
2005 - 2006 | Georgia Southern University Faculty Research Grant |
Georgia Southern University | |
Role: PI | |
$5,000 | |
2004 | Center for Excellence in Teaching Grant for Professional Travel |
Georgia Southern University | |
$1,494 | |
2002 | Renaissance Society of America/Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento Grant |
Renaissance Society of America | |
Role: PI | |
$2,000 | |
2000 | Georgia Southern University Faculty Research Grant |
Georgia Southern University | |
Role: PI | |
$1,500 | |
2000 | Georgia Southern University Faculty Research Stipend |
Georgia Southern University | |
Role: PI | |
$1,000 | |
1998 | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant for the Vatican Film Library |
St. Louis University | |
Role: PI | |
$1,260 | |
1997 | Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant |
American Historical Association | |
Role: PI | |
$1,000 | |
1996 | University of Wisconsin-Madison Friends of the Library Grant-in-Aid |
University of Wisconsin-Madison | |
Role: PI | |
$800 |
Professional Service and Affiliations
2019 - Present | Representative of Full Professors, Chair’s Advisory Council, Department of History, GSU | 2019 - Present | Alternate, Departmental Representative, Dean’s Advisory Council | 2017 - Present | Member, Operational Working Group on Faculty Welfare, GSU | 2021 | External reviewer, Promotion case, Ball State University | 2020 - 2021 | Judge, Ogeechee International History Film Festival | 2020 - 2021 | Coordinator, Renaissance Society of America Professional Development Discussion Group | 2020 | Member, Post-Tenure Review Committee, Department of History, GSU | 2020 | Member, Promotion Committee, Department of History, GSU | 2020 | Organizer, The Global Roots of Western Civilization: A Panel Discussion with History and Philosophy Faculty | 2020 | Member, ad hoc committee on Public History standards for tenure and promotion, Department of History, GSU | 2019 | Moderator, Free Speech: In the Constitution and on Campus | 2019 | Member, Pre-Tenure Review Committee, Department of History, GSU | 2019 | Chair, Promotion Committee, Department of History, GSU | 2018 | Chair, Committee to Consolidate Department Standards on Promotion, Department of History, GSU and Tenure | 2018 | Chair, Committee to Update Departmental By-Laws, Department of History, GSU | 2018 | President, Sixteenth Century Society and Conference | 2017 | Vice President, Sixteenth Century Society and Conference | 2016 | Chair, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Department of History, GSU | 2015 | Chair, Pre-Tenure Review Committee, Department of History, GSU | 2010 - 2013 | Member, Membership Committee, Georgia Southern University chapter, American Association of University Professors |
Honors and Awards
- Nominated, Georgia Southern University Award for Excellence in Research (2003)
- Nominated, Georgia Southern University Award for Excellence in Research (2004)
- Nominated, Georgia Southern University Award for Excellence in Research (2005)
- Recipient, Award of Distinction in Research, Georgia Southern University College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (2005)
- Recipient, Award of Distinction in Research, Georgia Southern University College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (2008)
- Fellowship, Mascioli Short-Term, Folger Shakespeare Library (2010)
- Fellowship, Short-Term, Newberry Library/Sixteenth Century Society (2013)
- Nominated, Georgia Southern University Award for Excellence in Research (2014)
- Nominated, Georgia Southern University Award for Excellence in Research (2016)
- Fellowship, Beinecke Library Visiting Research, Yale University (2016)
- Fellowship, Short-Term, Princeton University Libraries (2017)
- Recipient, Georgia Southern University Faculty Research Committee Scholarly Pursuit Award (2021)
Courses
- First Year Seminar: Coffee in the Modern World
- The Reformation
- Heresy and Martyrdom, 1400-1700
- World History Since 1453
- World History to 1500
- Honors World History since 1435
- The Renaissance
- Christian Europe, 450-1750
- Tudor and Stuart England
- Historical Methods
- Senior Seminar
- Church and State-Building, 1500-1700
1995 | Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison | |
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1989 | M.A., Fordham University | |
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1988 | B.A., Fordham University | |
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Contact Information
PO Box 8054
Statesboro, GA 30460
Phone: (912) 478-0642
Office: Forest Drive, Room 1209
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