Ph.D., University of Minnesota
M.A., Western Michigan University
B.A., Wheaton College
World history, medieval history, gender, family and social history, and early modern history.
Affectionate Authorities: Fathers and Fatherly Roles in Late Medieval Basel. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2015.
“Making Masters Moral: Household Subordinates and Upward Social Discipline in Late Medieval Basel.” Journal of Social History 55:2(Winter 2021): 289-314.
“Fatherhood,” in Routledge Medieval Encyclopedia Online, H. Klemettilä, & R. Karras, Eds. London: Routledge, 2022 (writing complete 2019) https://doi.org/10.4324/9780415791182-RMEO248-1
“Family and Familiars: The Concentric Household in Late Medieval Penitential Narratives.” Journal of Medieval History 35.2 (June 2009): 189–203.
“Aspects of Fatherhood in Thirteenth-Century Encyclopedias.” Journal of Family History 31.3 (July 2006): 211–236.
“But Some Make Red This Way: The Pedagogy of Variation in Sixteenth-Century Household Manuals.” 63rd Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, Illinois; April 1, 2017.
“Making Masters Moral: The Exchange of Social Discipline in Late Medieval Basel.” 38th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Gulfport, Mississippi; October 18–20, 2012.
“Harnessing the Hausvater: Fatherhood and the Reformation in Basel.” 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan; May 12–15, 2011.
“Food and Clothing as Sites of Fatherly Instruction: Evidence from Pedagogical Treatises in Fifteenth-Century Basel.” 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan; May 7–10, 2009.
“Father as Educator and Educator as Father: Contested Roles in the Amerbach Correspondence.” The Long Fifteenth Century: International Graduate Student Colloquium, Minneapolis, Minnesota; April 7–11, 2008.
“Father as Advisor in Georg Wickram’s ‘Der Verlorene Sohn.’” 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan; May 4–7, 2006.
“Pros, Cons, and Strategies for Using Performance In Teaching” brown-bag discussion, Center for Teaching and Learning, with Chris Bollinger, April 4, 2019.
“Teaching as Vocation: Reflecting on the Inner Life of Teaching” brown-bag discussion, Center for Teaching and Learning, September 20, 2016.
“Arranging Asynchronicity in Online Classes,” round-table discussion. Engaging Pedagogy Regional Conference, Texas Lutheran University; May 11, 2016.