CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

•      1998-1999: M.A. in Medieval Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca
•      1995-1998: Ph.D. in History, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
•      1993-1995: M.A. in History, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
•      1984-1988: B.A. in History-Philosophy, University of Bucharest, Romania

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

•      2007-: Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology, University of Florida, Gainesville
•      2003-2007: Associate Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology, University of Florida, Gainesville
•      1999-2003 : Assistant Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology, University of Florida, Gainesville
•      1990-1993: archaeologist, Institute of Archaeology "Vasile Pârvan," Bucharest
  
• field surveys in the Cernavodă-Medgidia area of Romania
• excavations in  Sighişoara, Constance, Pietroasele, Târgşor,  Histria, and Vadu/Karaharman

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND RESEARCH GRANTS

•     Membership in the Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Princeton (Spring 2007)
  
•     Fellow in Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. (2006/2007)
  
•     American Council of Learned Societies fellowship for postdoctoral research in Southeast European Studies (2006/2007)
  
•     National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, American School of Classical Studies (Athens, Greece; 2006/2007; declined)
  
•     WMU College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Achievement Award (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, October 2003)
•     Mellon Visiting Fellowship, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, August 2003-May 2004)
•     Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Award, University of Florida (Gainesville, May 2002)
•     Dumbarton Oaks Summer Fellowship in Byzantine Studies, Washington, D.C. (July-August 2001)
•     Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania (2001/2; declined)
•     Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Award, University of Florida (Gainesville, May 2000)
•     John Mc Mahon Undergraduate Teaching Award, University of Florida (Gainesville, April 2000)
•     College of Liberal Arts and Sciences travel grant, University of Florida (Gainesville, April 2000)
•     Medieval Studies Program fellowship, Cornell University (Ithaca, September 1998)
•     Dumbarton Oaks travel grant, Byzantine Studies Conference (Madison, September 1997)
•     Graduate College dissertation fellowship, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, September 1997)
•     Samuel H. Kress Foundation travel grant, College Art Association Conference (New York, February 1997)
•     All-University Graduate Research and Creative Scholar Award, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, May 1996)
•     K-S International Scholarship, Office of International Affairs, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, September, 1996)
•     Fellowship of the American Numismatic Society Graduate Seminar (New York, June-August 1995)
•     Fellowship of the Südost-Europa Gesellschaft (Munich, July-August 1994)
•     President's Research Scholar Award, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, May 1994)
•     Fellowship of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova (Chişinău, June 1993)
•     Fellowship of the Hungarian Commission of Monuments and Historical Sites (Budapest, October 1992)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

    Refereeing work

• Outside reviewer for the Institute for Advanced Research in Princeton, School of Historical Studies (November 2008, October 2009)
  
• Outside reviewer for the Czech Science Foundation (GA CR), project No. 404/09/J014 (Felix Biermann and Jiří Macháček, "The system of land use and settlement structures as the framework for the rise and fall of early medieval complex societies in East Central Europe"), May 2008
• Outside reader for the National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Fellowships administered by the American Councils for International Education (ACTR/ACCELS), April 2006
• Collaborative Research Panel, “Archaeology,” National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Research Programs, Collaborative Research and Scholarly Editions, December-January 2005-2006
• Referee for Cambridge University Press, Cornell University Press, Oxford University Press, Brill, Blackwell, and McGraw-Hill College Division, 2000-
  

    Service (national and international)

• Editor-in-Chief of the Brill series East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages (2006-)
  
• member of the Medieval Academy of America Publication Advisory Board (2006-)
• member of the Advisory Board of the Cursor Mundi series of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (2007-)
  
• member of the Editorial Board, Medieval Review (1999-2006)
• member of the Editorial Board, Archaeologia Bulgarica (2001-)
• member of the Editorial board, History Compass (2005-)
• Session organizer, "The archaeology of early medieval Europe, I and II," 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 13-16, 2010
• Session organizer, "On the fringes of medieval Europe, I and II," 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 13-16, 2010
• Session organizer, "Medievalism and the study of the Slavic Middle Ages in East Central and Eastern Europe," annual meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Gainesville, March 25-27, 2010
• Session organizer and chair, "The archaeology of early medieval Europe, I and II," 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 7-10, 2009
• Session organizer and chair, "Medieval Croatia," 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 7-10, 2009
• Session organizer and chair, "The archaeology of early medieval Europe, I and II," 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 8-11, 2008
• Session organizer and chair, "Medieval Bulgaria, I and II," 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 8-11, 2008
  
• Session organizer and chair, "Avar archaeology," 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 10-13, 2007
  
• Session organizer and chair, "Vikings in Eastern Europe, I, II, and III," 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 3-7, 2006
  
• Session organizer and chair, "History and archaeology of (Great) Moravia: thirty-five years of controversy," 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 3-7, 2006
  
• Session organizer and chair, "Saints and cities: combining religion and urbanism in the High Middle Ages," 15th Biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, March 9-11, 2006
  
• Session organizer and chair, "The other Europe: Avars, Bulgars, and Khazars (I and II)," 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 5-9, 2005
• Session organizer, "Neglected barbarians of the fifth, sixth, and seventh centuries (I and II)," 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 5-9, 2005
• Session organizer and chair, "East European Dark Ages: linguistics, history, and archaeology of the 'early Slavs'" (I and II), 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 7-11, 2003
• Session organizer and chair, "Emporia, Burgwälle, and castles in Eastern Europe" (I and II), 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 2-5, 2002
• Session organizer, "Overlapping frontiers: religion and ethnicity in the Middle Ages" and "Borders, barriers, and ethnogenesis: frontiers and ethnicity in the early Middle Ages," 116th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, San Francisco, January 3-6, 2002
• Medieval and Early Modern Studies colloquium organizer and respondent, "Pre-National, National, Inter-National: Internationalization from Medieval and Modern Perspectives," University of Florida, Gainesville, October 22-23, 2001
• Session organizer and chair, "Between empires: conversion to Christianity in Bulgaria, Poland, and Hungary" (I and II), 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 3-6, 2001
• Session organizer, "Limes, thagr and kleisoura: fortified frontiers in Late Antiquity" (I and II), 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 3-6, 2001
• Session organizer and chair, "Medieval nomads and pastoralists," 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 4-7, 2000
• Session organizer and chair, "East Central Europe in the Early Middle Ages: a Sonderweg?" 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 4-7, 2000
• Session organizer and chair, "Medieval Ethnicities and Archaeology," 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 7-10, 1999
  

    Service (University)

• Symposium organizer, "History, legacy, and heritage: a panel on heritage tourism in Slovenia and Spain," sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (January 31-February 1, 2008)
  
• UF in Florence Summer Program, director, 2006
• UF in Cambridge Summer Program, director 2002
• UF Archaeological Summer School, director 2002 (Granard, Ireland), 2003 (Lazuri, Romania), 2006 (Muro Leccese, Italy), 2009 (Pohansko, Czech Republic), 2010 (Guadix, Spain)
• UF Faculty senate, member, 2010-2011 
• Academic Freedom, Tenure, Professional Relations and Standards Committee, member, 2010-2011
• Preservation of Historic Buildings and Sites Committee, member, 2008-2010
  
• Faculty Academic Advisory Committee, member,  2005-2007
• Senate Compensation Committee, member, 2007-2010
  
• Senate Nominating Committee, member, 2007-2009
• Interdisciplinary Studies Committee, member, 2010-2011
• Medieval and Early Modern Studies program, founding member, 2005-
• Center for Greek Studies, affiliated faculty member, 1999-
  

    Service (Department)

• Chair of the tenure committee for Bonnie Effros (2008)
  
• Member of the Graduate Studies Committee, 2004-2005
• Member of the Policy and Personnel Committee, 2001-2003 and 2008-2009
• member of the Full Professor Advisory Committee, 2010-2011
• Member of the Hiring Committee, 2007-2008
• Member of the International Program Committee, 2007-2008
  
• Undergraduate Advisor, 1999-2003
• Advisor of the honorary History society Phi Alpha Theta, 1999-2003
  
• Member of the Early Modern Europe Search Commitee, 2002
• Chair of the ad-hoc committees for the dual-career (spousal) hiring of Andrea Sterk (2002) and Nina Caputo (2004)

    Service (Local)

• Lecture on the Balkan Neolithic for the Institute for Learning in Retirement, Oak Hammock at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 2010
• Lectures on the Middle Ages for four-graders from the Talbot Elementary School in Gainesville, Florida, 2001
• Lectures on the Middle Ages for elementary school children in the Sheriff Youth Ranch, Inverness, Florida, 1999

LANGUAGES

•   German (reading, speaking, writing)
•   French (reading, speaking, writing)
•   Romanian (reading, speaking, writing)
•   Italian (reading, writing)
•   Russian (reading)
•   Bulgarian (reading)
•   Czech (reading)
•   Ancient Greek
•   Latin

TEACHING (Courses taught)

1.    EUH-2001: Western Medieval Civilization (University of Florida, Fall 1999, Summer 2000, Fall 2002, Summer 2004, Summer 2009)
   
2.    EUH-3121: Early Middle Ages (University of Florida, Fall 1999, Fall 2000, Fall 2002, Spring 2005; Summer 2005)
3.    EUH-3122: High Middle Ages (University of Florida, Spring 2000, Spring 2001, and Summer 2007)
   
4.    EUH-3182: Medieval Archaeology (University of Florida, Fall 2001 and Summer 2002, with archaeological school in Granard, Co. Longford, Ireland; Fall 2004; Spring 2006; Fall 2008; Spring 2010)
5.    EUH-3300: Byzantine History (University of Florida, Spring 2000, Spring 2002, Spring 2003; Fall 2009)
6.    EUH-3323: Medieval History of Eastern Europe (University of Florida, Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Spring 2005, Fall 2008)
7.    EUH-3432: Medieval Italy (University of Florida in Florence program, Summer 2006; University of Florida in Rome program, Summer 2008; University of Florida, Fall 2009)
8.    EUH-3473: Medieval Germany (University of Florida, Spring 2006; Spring 2009)
9.    EUH-3930: Feudalism and medieval society (University of Florida, Spring 2003)
10.    EUH-3931: Medieval Russia (University of Florida, Spring 2010)
11.    EUH-4186: Medieval Archaeology Field Practicum (Lazuri, Satu Mare district, Romania, Summer 2003; Muro Leccese, Salento, Italy, Summer 2006; Pohansko, Southern Moravia, Czech Republic, Summer 2009; Guadix, Andalusia, Spain, Summer 2010)
12.    EUH-5934: The Empire and the Barbarians (University of Florida, Fall 2007)
    
13.    EUH-6126: Readings in Medieval History (University of Florida, Fall 2000, Fall 2002, Fall 2004, Spring 2009)  
    
14.    HIST-100: Early Western Civilization (Winter 1996, Western Michigan University)
15.    HIST-360: Medieval World (1995-1997, Western Michigan University)
16.    MEM-3003: Introduction to the Medieval World (University of Florida, Fall 2007)
    
17.    MEDVL-101/3: Heroes and villains (Cornell University; also taught between 1994 and 1998 at Western Michigan University)
18.    Sociology (1993, Romanian-American University in Bucharest)
19.    Economic History (1989-1992; Department of International Relations, Romanian Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest)
20.    Ancient, Medieval and Modern History (1990-1992; German High-School, Bucharest)
21.    Ancient History and Archaeology (1989; Department of History-Philosophy, University of Bucharest)
22.    Ancient, Medieval and Modern History (1988-1990; elementary school and high-school level, Buzău)

DISSERTATION AND THESIS COMMITTEES

• Chair, Ph.D. dissertation committees
• Jace Stuckey, "Charlemagne: The Making of an Image 1100-1300" (Department of History, University of Florida, 2006)
• Pavel Murdzhev, "The Medieval Town in Bulgaria, Thirteenth to Fourteenth Century" (Department of History, University of Florida, 2008)
• Chair, Ph.D. examination committees, Jace Stuckey (Department of History, University of Florida, 2003), Pavel Murdzhev (Department of History, University of Florida, 2006), Andrei Gândila and Andrew Holt (Department of History, University of Florida, 2009)
• Chair, M.A. thesis committees
• Shery Leung, "From Catholicism to Protestantism: Marriage in Sixteenth-century Germany" 
• Jamie Swindlehurst, "The Development of Ethnicity in Anglo-Saxon England with Emphasis on Northumbria During the Sixth and Seventh Century" (Department of History, University of Florida, 2002)
• Namananda Henderson, "Ethnic Differences in Tenth-Century Danelaw" (Department of History, University of Florida, 2006)
• Chair, M.A. non-thesis committees
• Anthony Pagliai (Department of History, University of Florida, 2003)
• David Dry (Department of History, University of Florida, 2010)
• Melanie Quintos (Department of History, University of Florida, 2010)
• Member, Ph.D. dissertation committees
• Valerie Austin, "The Orchestral Works of Meredith Wilson" (School of Music, University of Florida, 2003)
• Michael Eugene Morse, "The Politics of Art and Religion: Absolutism and Catholic Iconography in Early Stuart England 1603-1649 " (Department of History, University of Florida, 2008)
• Eleni Bozia, "Lucia and his Roman Voices" (Classics Department, University of Florida, 2009)
• Member, Ph.D. examination committees for Steven Matthews and Theodora Dragostinova (Department of History, University of Florida, 2001) and Jace Stuckey, Mark Correll, and Samuel Pierce (Department of History, University of Florida, 2003), Valerie Hampton (Department of History, Western Michigan University, 2008)
• Member, M.A. examination committees for Justin Patterson (Department of History, University of Florida, 2002); Guy Earle (Classics Department, University of Florida, 2002)
• Major advisor for senior thesis
• Jamie Swindlehurst, "Ethnicity in Anglo-Saxon England" (Department of History, University of Florida, 2000)
• Aja Q. Ishmael, "Hasdai ibn Shaprut: a Study of the Motives Behind his Letter to King Joseph" (Department of History, University of Florida, 2002)
• Meghan Dow, "A Past Imagined: Politics, Nationalism and Archaeology in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Ireland" (Department of History, University of Florida, 2003)
• Valerie Hampton, "The Godred Corvan Dynasty: Power Relations in the Isle of Man" (Department of History, University of Florida, 2003)
• Jonathan Chandler, "The Language of Death: Assertions of Power from Beyond (An Analysis of the Archaeological Evidence Discovered at Sutton Hoo and Malo Pereshchepyne" (Department of History, University of Florida, 2005)
• David Dry, "Germani Germani: Sibling Relations in the Merovingian Era" (Department of History, University of Florida, 2008)
• Stacie Sachs, "Burials of the Viking Age: A Comparison of Archaeological Evidence from Iceland and Ireland" (Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, 2009)
• Benjamin Weissman, "Anglian England and Danish Influence During the Migration Period" (Department of History, University of Florida, 2010)
• Mentor, University Scholars Program
• Davide Zori (Department of History, University of Florida, 2001)
• David Dry (Department of History, University of Florida, 2007)
• Ricardo Colon (Department of History, University of Florida, 2008)
• Benjamin Weissman (Department of History, University of Florida, 2010)
• Tyler Walsh and Janel Fontaine (Department of History, University of Florida, 2011)

PUBLICATIONS

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