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EDUCATION
PhD,
University of Chicago, 1996
MA, University of Chicago, 1988
AB,
Smith College, 1986 cum laude with highest honors
in Medieval Studies
PUBLICATIONS
The Transformation of a Religious Landscape: Medieval Southern Italy,
850-1150 (Cornell University Press, 2006, in Barbara Rosenwein’s series, “Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval
Past)
Winner, Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize for best book in Italian History
(2007) awarded by the Society for Italian Historical Studies
“Pastoral Care as Military Action: the Ecclesiology of Alfanus I Archbishop of Salerno (1058-85)” in The Bishop Reformed: Studies in Episcopal Culture and Power in the Central Middle Ages (900-1215), ed. John Ott and Anna Trumbore (Ashgate, 2007)
“The Diocese of Salerno” “Archbishop Alfanus I of Salerno,” and "The Abbey of the Holy Trinity of Cava" in The International Encyclopaedia of the Middle Ages-Online, ed. Patrick Geary (Brepols Publisher, 2006-2007)
"Religious Life in Eleventh-Century Salerno: The Church of Santa Lucia in Balnearia," in Haskins Society Journal XIII (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2002)
“Territorial Lordships in the Principality of Salerno, 1050-1150,” in Haskins Society Journal IX (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2001)
"Ecclesiastical Reorganization in the
Principality of Salerno in the Late Lombard and Early Norman Period," in
Anglo-Norman Studies XVII (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1995)
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Lombards and Greeks, Arabs and Normans: Southern Italy in the Early Middle
Ages, proposed book project that would examine southern Italy and Sicily as
a whole from c. 600-1100. It would be the first time that a book places all
the various regions into a single, comprehensive volume, highlighting common
themes and trends in spite of the political fragmentation and ethnic
diversity characteristic of the area that have led scholars to create highly
localized histories.
CONFERENCES AND PAPERS
Invited Speaker, The Foundations of Medieval
Monasticism, UCLA, 2008: “Monks without Monasteries: Troglodytes,
Peripatetics, and Household Religious in Early Medieval Southern Italy”
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 2007: “Lombards, Greeks, and Arabs: Creating a Unified History of Southern Italy in the Early Middle Ages”
International Medieval Conference, University of Leeds, Organizer: "Medieval Italy North and South," a series of seven interrelated sessions (with George Dameron, Professor of History, St.Michael's College)
Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Boston, 2006, Organizer and Chair: "Cross-Cultural Encounter and Exchange in the Medieval Mediterranean"
Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Miami Beach, Florida, 2005: “’Mattheus nos non desiderit, nos servat, hostes conterit…’: The Ecclesiology of Alfanus I Archbishop of Salerno (1058-85)”
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 2004: “The Disappearance of Bishoprics in Late Antique Southern Italy”
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 2003: “The Late Antique Crisis in Italy: The Evidence of Salerno and its Province”
International Conference of the Charles Homer Haskins Society for Viking, Anglo-Norman, and Angevin History, Cornell University, 2002: “Religious Reform as Political Action: The Career of Alfanus I Archbishop of Salerno (1058-85)”
Conference of the American Historical Society, San Francisco, 2002, “Greek Christianity in Lombard Southern Italy”
Harvard University, Invited Speaker, Harvard Humanities Center Seminar on Medieval Studies, 2000: "Religious Life in Medieval Southern Italy: Ecclesiastical Organization and Reorganization in the Principality of Salerno"
International Conference of the Charles Homer Haskins Society for Viking, Anglo-Norman, and Angevin History, Cornell University, 2000: "Religious Life in Eleventh-Century Salerno: The Church of Santa Lucia"
ACMRS Conference, Arizona State University, 1998: “Donation Charters as Instruments of Negotiation and Compromise in Norman Southern Italy”
International Conference of the Charles Homer Haskins Society for Viking, Anglo-Norman, and Angevin History, University of Houston, 1996: “Territorial Lordships in the Principality of Salerno, 1050-1150”
Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies, Battle, England, 1994: "Ecclesiastical Reorganization in the Principality of Salerno in the Late Lombard and Early Norman Period"
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1990: "The Political Cult of Saint Peter Parenzo"
TRANSLATIONS
Charters from the Abbey of the Holy Trinity of Cava for Medieval Italy: A
Sourcebook (forthcoming, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008)
Review of Bonnie Effros, Caring for Body and Soul: Burial and the Afterlife in the Merovingian World by Cristina La Rocca for Speculum (2005)
“The Use and Abuse of Miracles in Early Medieval Culture” (“Uso e abuso del miracolo nella cultura altomedioevale”) by Sofia Boesch Gajano and “Religion, Folklore, and Society in the Medieval West” (“Religione, folklore e società nell’Occidente medievale”) by Jean-Claude Schmitt for Lester Little and Barbara Rosenwein (eds.), Debating the Middle Ages (Oxford, 1998)
BOOK REVIEWS
Steven A.
Espstein, Purity Lost: Transgressing Boundaries in the Eastern
Mediterranean, 1000-1400 for Social History (2007)
David Foote, Lordship, Reform, and the Development of Civil Society in
Medieval Italy: The Bishopric of Orvieto, 1100-1250 for The Catholic
Historical Review (2006)
Nick Webber, The Evolution of Norman Identity, 911-1154 for The Medieval Review (2005)
Jean-Marie Martin, Errico Cuozzo, Stefano Gasparri, and Matteo Villani (eds.), Regesti dei Documenti dell’Italia Meridionale, 570-899 for Speculum (January, 2005)
Cristina La Rocca (ed.), Italy in the Early Middle Ages for Speculum (January, 2004)
G. A. Loud, The Age of Robert Guiscard: Southern Italy and the Norman Conquest for Speculum (April, 2002)
Mary Stroll, The Medieval Abbey of Farfa: Target of Papal and Imperial Ambitions for The Catholic Historical Review (October, 1999)
MANUSCRIPT REVIEWS
William R. Cook and Ronald B. Herzman,
The Medieval World View: An Introduction, 2nd edition for
Oxford University Press (2007)
Judith Bennett, Medieval Europe: A Short History, chapters 9-13 for McGraw Hill, College Division (2001)
C. Warren Hollister et al., Medieval Europe: A Short Sourcebook, Third Edition for McGraw Hill, College Division (2000)
AWARDS
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellowship, 2007
Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval
Studies, Toronto,
1999 (declined)
Mellon Foundation-University of Chicago dissertation-year fellowship,
1992-1993
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, 1988-1992
First Group Scholar, Smith College, 1985-86
LANGUAGES
Fluent in Italian
Reading knowledge of French, German, Latin, Arabic, and Greek
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Medieval Southern Italy
Economic and Social History of the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages
Religious Life and Church Reform
Relations between Europe, Islam, and Byzantium