Resume

• 2009

  Williams

  University of Indianapolis

  University of Indianapolis

  Associate Professor Of History

  University of Indianapolis

  University of Indianapolis

  Teacher of the Year Award

  Awarded to one faculty member out of the 553 full time and part time faculty at the University of Indianapolis by the University Teaching Awards Committee comprised of students and faculty.

  University of Indianapolis

• 2003

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  History

  Purdue University

• 2000

  Master of Studies (M. Stud.)

  History

  Oxford University

• 1996

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

  History

  The College of William and Mary

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  Forming Orthodoxy through Friendship: Alcuin

  Guarnarius

  and Benedict of Aniane's Munimenta verae fidei

  This article endeavors to examine how a network of friendship between Alcuin of York

  Benedict of Aniane

  and Guarnarius contributed both to the creation of the Munimenta verae fidei

  a little studied collection of original and borrowed materials composed by Benedict of Aniane

  and to the formation of orthodoxy in the Carolingian period. In the Munimenta verae fidei

  Benedict of Aniane provided his own theological response to the threat of Felicianism or Adoptionism in concert with the work of Alcuin

  particularly the De fide sanctae Trinitatis

  in order to persuade a wayward friend

  Guarnarius

  back into Carolingian orthodoxy. The Munimenta verae fideithus stands as a history of the relationship between these three figures and a testament to how orthodoxy is not just achieved through the mastery of theology but also through the negotiation of relationships.

  Forming Orthodoxy through Friendship: Alcuin

  Guarnarius

  and Benedict of Aniane's Munimenta verae fidei

  \"The Tennessee Civil War Centennial Commission: Looking to the Past as Tennessee Plans for the Future

  ” (feature article) Tennessee Historical Quarterly 67

  no. 4 (Winter 2008)

  270-345.\n\nThis article offers a thorough examination of the Civil War Centennial Commission established by the state of Tennessee

  including its structure

  funding

  and mission. Moreover

  the article endeavors to analyze the contemporary climate of the segregationist south that dominated the Commission

  as well as its pursuit of the Lost Cause ideology that emphasized states' rights over slavery as the cause of the Civil War.

  The Tennessee Civil War Centennial Commission: Looking to the Past as Tennessee Plans for the Future

  As part of the examination of the development of the Charlemagne legend in medieval Latin texts

  this book chapter explores the reputation of Charlemagne as a devotee to the Virgin Mary. The Gesta Karoli Magni ad Carcassonam et Narbonam provides the launching point for this investigation that then traces the thread of Charles and his Marian devotion through other Latin texts back to Charlemagne's lifetime. This chapter demonstrates that the Gesta Karoli Magni is a by-product of its 13th century context but also a preservation a long remembered historical reality.

  'For the Honour of the Blessed Virgin'​: The History and Legacy of Charles's Devotion to Mary in the Gesta Karoli Magni ad Carcassonam et Narbonam

  R. I. Moore in \"The Formation of a Persecuting Society\" argued that Europe formed a persecuting society in the twelfth century. In this article

  the author argues that those origins belong in the ninth century when both the Carolingian rulers and church began to target and regulate the same marginalized groups utilized in Moore's thesis—heretics

  Jews

  lepers

  homosexuals

  and loose women.

  Carolingian Formation of a Persecuting Society

  \"Working for Reform: Acedia and the Transformation of Working Culture in Carolingian Monasticism

  ” in Sin in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

  ed. Richard Newhauser and Susan Ridyard

  19-42. Woodbridge

  England: York Medieval Press

  2012.\n\nAn increase in wealth and aristocratic oblates in monasteries of the Carolingian period led to a number of conflicts over the nature of monasticism and the obligations of monks. Integral to this debate was the perception that monks suffered from too much leisure time or the vice known as acedia. As a result reformers

  including most prominently Benedict of Aniane

  sought to address the problem through administrative and legislative measures concerned with monastic work and labor. Although these reformers met stiff resistance from some brothers

  evidence suggests that the culture of work in Carolingian monasteries changed. This paper argues that an examination of Carolingian monastic reforms in the context of the vices provides a new framework for understanding a problematic period in monastic history.\n

  Working for Reform: Acedia and the Transformation of Working Culture in Carolingian Monasticism