Primary Research & Teaching Interests:     History of Christianity (ancient & medieval) Late Antiquity/Later Roman Empire Byzantine Cultural and Religious History

Education Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary, 1994 MTS, Regent College, Vancouver Canada, 1988  A.B., Barnard College, Columbia University, 197

Books

• Renouncing the World Yet Leading the Church.  The Monk-Bishop in Late Antiquity (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2004)
• Brief Review by Robert Wilken, First Things
• Brief Review by J.W. Nesbitt, Choice
  
• Readings in World Christian History.  Earliest Christianity  to 1453  (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2004)  [Volume of primary sources from global Christianity, co-edited with John Coakley]
• Religion, Scholarship, and Higher Education.  Perspectives, Models, & Future Prospects (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002); editor and author of preface
• John Comenius. The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart (NY: Paulist Press, 1998), with Howard Louthan

                       
 

                        

Teaching, Administrative, and Professional Appointments

• Associate Professor of History, University of Florida, 2006-
• Assistant Professor of History, University of Florida, 2002-2006; Affiliate Faculty in Religion, 2005-
  
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame, 1995-2001
• Administrator, Lilly Seminar on Religion and Higher Education, 1996-2000
• Assistant Professor of History, Calvin College, 1994-1995
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Trenton State College [now College of New Jersey], 1993-1994
• Lecturer, Princeton University, 1993-1994
• Teaching Fellow, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1988-1990, 1992-1993