Academic Specialization

Medieval European History, Saints and Hagiography, Memory, Literacy, Power, Fraud

Academic Positions

1. Syracuse University, Assistant Professor of History, Syracuse, NY, August 2003-present
2. Northeastern University, Lecturer in History, Boston, MA, Winter 2003
3. Harvard University, Tutor and Teaching Fellow, Cambridge, MA, 1997-2001

Visiting Professorships

Universite Paul Verlaine, Metz, Metz, France, Nov.-Dec. 2007

Education

1. Harvard University, Ph.D., Department of History, Cambridge, MA, June 2002
   • Specialization: Medieval Europe
   • Sub-fields: Medieval Latin Literature, Reformation Europe, Ottoman Empre
   • Advisor: Professor Thomas N. Bisson
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     Dissertation: "Imagining the Sacred Past in Hagiography of Early Normandy: The Vita Tuarini, Vita Vigoris and Passio Nicasii
   • Awarded the Harold K. Gross Prize by Harvard University Department of History as the dissertation showing greatest promise of a distinguished career of historical research (2003)
2. Merton College, Oxford University, Master of Philosophy, British European History, Oxford, UK, July 1993
   • General subject: Europe 1054-1204
   • Special subject: Twelfth-century Parisian schools
   • Supervisor: Mr. Alexander Murray
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     Thesis: "The Liber Lapidum of Marbode of Rennes and Its First French Translation"
3. Columbia University, BA summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, New York, NY, May 1991
   • Major: History
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     Awarded the Euretta J. Kellett Fellowship for two years of graduate study at Oxford University

Fellowships, Scholarships, and Awards

1. Appleby-Mosher Faculty Research Grant, Syracuse University, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008
2. Pigott Faculty Research Grant, Syracuse University, 2006
3. Center for European Studies, Syracuse University, Faculty Course Development Grant, 2004
4. Harold K. Gross Prize, awarded by the Harvard University Department of History for the dissertation showing greatest promise of a distinguished career of historical research, 2003
5. Packard Humanities Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2001-2002
6. George Chase Christian Scholarship, Harvard University, 1996-2002
7. Fulbright Fellowship for research in France, 1999-2000
8. Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship, 1999-2000
9. Harvard University Lurcy Traveling Fellowship (declined), 1999-2000
10. Derek Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University, 1998
11. Ephraim Emerton Fellowship in History, Harvard University, 1995-1996
12. Euretta J. Kellet Fellowship, awarded by Columbia University for two years of graduate study at Oxford University, 1991-1993

Publications

1. "Betwixt and Between: Waleran of Meulan and His Powerful Neighbors," Haskins Society Journal 20 (forthcoming)
2. "Apostolic Legends of Medieval France," European Studies Forum 38, Summer 2008
3. Imagining the Sacred Past: Hagiography and Power in Early Normandy. Harvard Historical Studies 156. Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press., 2007
   Nominated for the Council for European Studies Book Award
4. "Heirs to the Apostles: Saintly Power and Ducal Authority in Hagiography of Early Normandy," in Robert F. Berhofer III, alan Cooper, and Adam J. Kosto, eds. The Experience of Power in Medieval Europe, 900-1300. Aldershot: Ashgate. 11-24., 2005
5. "Reshaping the Past on the Early Norman Frontier: Vigor of Bayeux," Haskins Society Jorunal 12 (2003): 133-149, 2003
6. Power and Border Lordship in Medieval France: The County of Perche, 1000-1226, by Kathleen Thompson. Review for Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies 79/3, 2004
7. L'hagiographie du haut moyen age en Gaule du Nord, ed. Matin Heinzelmann. Review for Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies 78/4., 2003

Work in Progress

1. In the Company of the Apostles: Apostolic Foundation Legends and Ecclesiastical Networks in Medieval France, c. 750-c. 1350
2. "Remembering the Vikings in the Duchy of Normandy," under consideration by Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History
3. "Lenquais Becomes Lycaonia: The Dossier of Fronto of Perigueux and the Study of Apostolic Hagiography"
4. "Diffusion Patterns of the Vitae Frontonis and Ecclesiastical Networks in Medieval France"

Papers and Presentations

1. "Hagiographie medievale: ideologie et pouvoir," Colloque international, Centre d'Etudes superieures de Civilisation medievale de Poitiers (invited paper), "Le pouvoir du passe apostolique", Poitiers, France, Sept. 2008
2. Cornell University European History Colloquium (invited paper) "Lenquais Becomes Lycaonia: The Dossier of Fronto of Perigueux and the Study of Apostolic Hagiography", Ithaca, NY, March 2008
3. 16th Biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, "Inventing Apostolic Tradition in Medieval Perigueux", Sarasota, FL, March 2008
4. "Texts in Motion," the 2008 Marco Institute Manuscript Workship, "The Hagiographical Dossier of Fronto of Perigueux, Knoxville, TN, Feb. 2008
5. "Recontres d'histoire du Moyen Age," Centre Regional Universitaire Lorrain d'Histoire, Universite Paul Verlaine, Metz (invited lecture), "L'Apostolicite dans l'hagiographie medievale de France: Problemes et possibilites, Metz, France, Dec. 2007
6. 14th International Medieval Congress, "The apostolicity of St. Fronto of Perigueux", Leeds, UK, July 2007
7. 82nd Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, "Holiness and History: Apostolic Tradition in Frankish Hagiography, Toronto, Ont., April 2007
8. 25th Annual Meeting of the Charles Homer Haskins Society, "Betwixt and Between: Waleran of Meulan and His Powerful Neighbors", Washington, D.C., Nov. 2006
9. 13th International Medieval Congress, Organizer and Moderator of Session "Exploring Apostolicity: Apostolic Traditions in Medieval France", Leeds, UK, July 2006
10. Quodlibet Society, Cornell University (invited lecture), "Imagining Sacred Pasts: Hagiographic Legends of Medieval France", Ithaca, NY, Oct. 2005
11. 12th International Medieval Congress, "Inventing Apostles in Hagiography of Medieval France", Leeds, UK, July 2005
12. 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, "A Sacred Realm: Apostolic Saints and the Collective Identitiy of France", Kalamazoo, MI, May 2005
13. 11th International Medieval Congress, "Remembering the vikings in the Duchy of Normandy", Leeds, UK, July 2004
14. 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, "From Local Rivalry to Collective Myth: Legends of Apostolic Foundation in Hagiography of Medieval France", Paris, France, June 2004
15. 10th International Medieval Congress, "Heirs to the apostles: Saintly Power and Ducal Authority in Hagoigraphy of Early Normandy", Leeds, UK, July 2003
16. 20th Annual Meeting of the Charles Homer Haskins Society, "Reshaping the Past on the Early Norman Frontier: Vigor of Bayeux", Ithaca, NY, Oct. 2001
17. 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, "Early Saints and Their Reuses in Later Periods: Vigor of Bayeux, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2001