degrees
Ph.D. in History with Award of Academic Merit, University of Miami, 2003
M.A. in Russian and East European Studies, University of Kansas, 1996
M.A. in Political Science, University of Kansas,
1996
B.A. in Political Science with Departmental Honors, University of Kansas, 1993
EXPERIENCE
2005 – 2006 Visiting
Assistant Professor
The Department of
History
Western Carolina
University
Cullowhee, North Carolina
2005 Visiting Assistant
Professor
The Department of
History
Indiana University
Purdue University
Indianapolis
2003 – 2004 Visiting Assistant Professor
The Department
of History
University of Miami
Coral Gables, Florida
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Fulbright Senior Scholar Research Award, The J. William Fulbright Scholar Program
and the Fulbright Exchange Program in Russia, 2006-2007
Theodore Parker Fund Grant, Department of History, University of Miami, Spring 2003
Summer Research Grant, Department of History
University of Miami, 1999, 2000, 2002
Provost’s Graduate Student Travel Award, University of Miami,
Fall 2001
Max and Peggy Kriloff Graduate Student Travel Scholarship, College of Arts
and Sciences, University
of Miami, Fall 2001
Graduate Activity Fee Allocation Committee (GAFAC), University of Miami, Research Grant, Summer 2000;
Fall 2001
Research grant, Medieval Slavic Studies Institute, Hilandar
Research Library, The Ohio State University, 1999
Foreign Language and Area Studies Scholarship, 1995 and
1996 (to study in Russia)
PUBLICATIONS
Books
The Nation in History: A Theoretical Overview (London and New York:
Pearson-Longman, forthcoming 2007) with Laura Cruz.
‘A Man Chosen
by God’: The Archiepiscopal Office in Novgorod the Great
Up to the Muscovite Conquest (Leiden and Boston: Brill, under contract).
Juried Articles
Secular Power and
the Archbishops of Novgorod before the Muscovite Conquest, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian
History 8, No.2 (Spring 2007): 231-270.
The Iaroslavichi and the Novgorodian Veche 1230-1270:
A Case Study on Princely Relations with the Veche, Russian History/
Histoire Russe 31, No. 1-2 (Spring-Summer, 2004): 39-59.
Episcopal
Election in Novgorod, Russia 1156-1478, Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 72, No. 2 (June 2003): 251-275.
Book
Chapters
Archbishop Vasilii Kalika of Novgorod and the Defense of Orthodoxy, in
Alan V. Murray, ed., The Clash of Cultures on the Medieval Baltic Frontier
(forthcoming 2008).
Encyclopedia Entries
St. Olga, Great Lives from History: the Middle Ages and Pre-Renaissance,
Leslie Ellen Jones, ed., (Pasadena, CA: Salem
Press, 2004).
Veche, The Encyclopedia of Russian History, James R.
Millar, ed., (New York:
Macmillan Reference, 2003).
Church Statutes of Vladimir
and Iaroslav; Church-State Relations
in Kievan Rus’; and Church-State Relations in Muscovite Russia, Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and
Soviet History (SMERSH), Bruce F. Adams, ed., (Gulf Breeze, FL:
Academic International Press, 2005).
Stoglav, or Council of One
Hundred Chapters, Great Events from
History: 1454-1600 (Pasadena, CA: Salem
Press, 2005).
Book Reviews
“Review of Nicholas
V. Riasanovsky and Mark D. Steinberg, History of Russia 7th
ed. (Oxford and New York:
Oxford University Press, 2005),” H-Net
Reviews (forthcoming).
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Introductory Surveys
World History I – Fall 2004, Spring 2005
World History II – Summer 2003, Fall 2004, Spring 2005,
Fall 2005, Spring 2006
Western Civilization I – Fall 2002, Fall 2003, Spring
2004, Fall 2004, Spring 2005
Western Civilization II – Fall 2004, Spring 2005
Upper Level Surveys
The Mongol Empire –
Spring 2006
Modern Russia
– Fall 2005
Medieval Europe – Summer 2004
The High and Late Middle Ages: Europe,
1095-1500 – Spring 2004
The Early Middle Ages: Europe,
450 – 1095 – Fall 2003
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
Participated in the Summer Institute on Teaching and
Learning, The Coulter Faculty Center,
Western Carolina University,
May 15-18, 2006
Designed poster for the Summer Institute on Teaching and
Learning, The Coulter Faculty Center, Western Carolina Univesity, April 2006
Designed logo for WebCat Course Management System (WebCT
at Western Carolina
University), The Coulter Faculty
Center, Western
Carolina University,
April 2006
Co-coordinator, First Annual Social History in the
Mountains Conference: Bridging the Divide in Historical Methods,
Department of History, Western
Carolina University,
March 18, 2006
Co-sponsor, Resume Workshop for History Majors, Western Carolina University,
January 17 and 18, 2006
Co-sponsor, National Banned Book Week events, Western Carolina University,
September 26-30, 2005
Early Slavic Studies Association Web Manager, 2003 - 2004
Associate, The Summer
Research Laboratory on Russia and Eastern Europe, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
Illinois, 2000, 2002
President, Delta Alpha Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, The
International History Honor Society and the University of Miami
History Club, 2000 to 2002
Member of the Coordinating Committee for the Phi
Alpha Theta Florida Regional Conference,
University of Miami,
Coral Gables, Florida, April 5-6, 2002
Associate, Medieval Slavic Studies Institute,
Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies/ Hilandar Research Library, The
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1999
Participated in the Council on International Educational
Exchange (CIEE):
Semester Russian Language Program, St. Petersburg State University, Russia, 1996
Summer Russian Language Program, St. Petersburg State
Gornii Insititut, Russia, 1995
Participated in the University
of Kansas Department of Political
Science Washington,
D. C. Internship Program, Spring 1992
Interned with the office of Senator
Thomas A. Daschle, (D-SD)
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND
PRESENTATIONS
“Why did the Veche Republics Need Princes?” paper
presented at the Eighth Midwest Medieval Slavic Workshop, University of Chicago,
April 29, 2005
“Continuity and Change in the Office of Novgorodian
Archbishop after 1478,” paper presented at the Ninth Annual Winter Workshop
in Medieval and Early Modern Slavic Studies, University
of California at Los Angeles, February 25, 2005
“The Archbishops of Novgorod and the Defense of
Orthodoxy,” paper presented at the panel Religious Issues Between
Catholics and Orthodox, at the Eleventh International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England,
July 14, 2004
“Reconsidering Russia’s
Vecha,” paper presented at the Eighth UCLA Annual Winter Workshop in Medieval
and Early Modern Slavic Studies, University
of California at Los Angeles, February 27, 2004
“The Bishops and Archbishops of Novgorod as Church Patrons,”
paper for Roundtable, Ecclesiastical Politics, Patronage, and Culture in Novgorod,
Thirty-fourth National Conventions of the American Association for the
Advancement of Slavic Studies
(AAASS), Pittsburgh, PA,
November 23, 2002
“The Theory and Practice of Ecclesiastical Election
in Novgorod,
1156-1478,” paper for Roundtable, Ecclesiastical Politics and Culture in
Novgorod, Thirty-third National Convention of the American Association
for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
(AAASS) Crystal City
(Arlington),
VA, November 17, 2001
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Association
for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture, since 2005
Medieval Academy of America, since 2003
American
Historical Association, since 2000
Phi Alpha
Theta International History Honor Society, inducted 2000
American
Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, since 1999
Early Slavic Studies Association,
since 1999
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Reading and Conversation Skills:
Russian
Reading
Skills:
Old Church Slavic, German, and basic Latin and Greek
Copyright
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