Qualifications
Ph.D, Princeton, 2002 (Curriculum vitae)
Teaching
Current courses
HIST 110: Western Civilization to 1500 (Spring 2009)
HIST 325: Late Antiquity (Fall 2008)
HIST 328: The Early Church to 395 (Fall 2007; NOT OFFERED FALL 2008)
HIST 329: The Early Church, 395-787 (Spring 2008; NOT OFFERED SPRING 2009)
HIST 330: The Early Middle Ages (Spring 2009)
HIST 710: The Fall of Rome in Recent Historiography (Spring 2009)
University Service
Graduation Requirements Task Force documents:
US & CA Government Requirement
Research
Fields of Interest
Late Roman empire, history of Christianity, intellectual history
Selected Publications
The Monk and the Book: Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship (Chicago, 2006)
with Anthony Grafton: Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea (Harvard, 2006)
Current Research
The Worldly Apocalypse: The Fall of Rome in History and Culture
Exegetical Tradition and the New Intellectual History
New Approaches to Church History