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Here are the classes that I teach.  Click here to view the course descriptions.

• Current Fall 2008 Courses
  • Hist 113: Western Civilization I
  • Hist 388/300: The Roman Republic
  
• Previous Courses
  • Hist 113: Western Civilization I
  • Hist 114: Western Civilization II
  • Hist 200: Hell and Death in Antiquity and Beyond
  • Hist 351: Europe in the Early Middle Ages
  • Hist 352: Europe in the High and Late Middle Ages
  • Hist 386: Ancient Greece to Alexander the Great
  • Hist 388: Roman History
  • Hist 200: Ancient/Medieval History and Film
  • Hist J495: Women and Gender in the Ancient World
  • Hist J495: Medieval Heresy

My research interests are:

• Medieval Europe: 13th-14th century northern Italy; Tolkien and Medieval Literature
• Heresy: Order of the Apostles; Women/Gender and Heretical movements
• Apocalypticism: Gerardo Segarelli, Fra Dolcino
• Late Roman Republic: Roman Revolution
• Film and History: Gendered representations of the past
• Conceptions of the Hell and the afterlife
  
• Dissertation: Apocalyptic Poverty: Gerard Segarelli, Fra Dolcino and the Legitimization of Deviance Among the Order of Apostles, 1260-1307 University of Arizona, 2004

My Service interests are:

• Advance College Project
• Writing Across the Curriculum
• History Club