Expertise

I am a medievalist specializing in legal and ecclesiastical history from c.1000 to c.1500. My research interests focus on legal pluralism and the evolution of legal principles. I am particularly interested in the dissemination of legal knowledge; the interpretation of law; and the ways in which social, political, and intellectual developments and trends shaped both during the height of the medieval period. By examining the larger processes linking law to the world in which it functions, my hope is to show new ways of thinking about current issues.

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Organizational Affiliations

Professor, Department of Political Science, Public Administration, & History, College of Arts & Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University

Education

Medieval History
2010, PhD, Catholic University of America (United States, Washington D.C.) - CUA

“From Gratian’s Concordia discordantium canonum to Gratian’s Decretum: The Evolution from Teaching Text to Comprehensive Code of Canon Law,” supervised by Kenneth Pennington

Medieval History
2004, MA, Catholic University of America (United States, Washington D.C.) - CUA
Medieval Studies
2000, MA, Western Michigan University (United States, Kalamazoo) - WMU

“Alphonsus Bonihominis’s Conversionary Letter from Rabbi Samuel to Rabbi Isaac,” supervised by Otto Gründler

History
1998, BA, Western Michigan University (United States, Kalamazoo) - WMU