Professor of History
Telephone: 501 569-8389
Fax: 501 569-3235
Mailing address:
Department of History
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
2801 S. University Ave.
Little Rock, AR 72204-1099 USA
Harvard University, Ph.D., History, 1991; A.M., History, 1984
Dartmouth College, A.B., summa cum laude, History with Music, 1981; Departmental honors (High Distinction)
Hall High School, Little Rock, AR, diploma, 1977
Syllabi for fall 2008:
History
1311.12 History of World Civilization I (MWF, 10-10:50)
History
4302.01 Magic, Science, and the Occult from Antiquity to Newton (MWF,
11-11:50)
History
4393.01/History 7396.02/UAMS LHUMK Disease and Society from Antiquity
to the Present
Syllabi for spring 2008:
History 1312.02 History of World Civilization II (MWF, 10-10:50)
Syllabi from fall 2007:
History 1311.15 History of World Civilization I (MWF, 10:10:50)
History 4393.01/7395.01 (UAMS LHUMK) Disease and Society from Antiquity to the Present (M 6-8:40)
Syllabi from spring 2007:
Book:
History, Prophecy, and the Stars: The Christian
Astrology
of Pierre d'Ailly, 1350-1420. Princeton University Press,
1994.
Articles:
"Astrology and the Sibyls: John of Legnano’s De adventu Christi and the Natural Theology of the Later Middle Ages,"Science in Context 20:3 (2007): 423-50.
"A Case of Demonic Possession in Fifteenth-Century Brittany:
Perrin Hervé and the Nascent Cult of Vincent Ferrer, " in
Michael Goodich, ed., Voices from
the Bench: The Narratives of Lesser Folk in Medieval Trials. NY:
Palgrave-Macmillan, 2006. Pp.149-76.
"Holy Mothers: The History of a Designation of Spiritual
Status." In Marc Forster and Ben Kaplan, eds., Piety and Family in Early Modern
Europe: Essays in Honour of Steven Ozment.
Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. 178-200.
"Northern and Southern Sanctity in the Canonization of Vincent Ferrer: The Effects of Procedural Differences on the Image of the Saint. " In Gábor Klaniczay, ed., Procès de canonization au Moyen Âge: aspects juridiques et religieux, Collection de l'École française de Rome 340. Rome: Ecole Française de Rome, 2004. Pp. 289-308.
"The Canonization of Vincent Ferrer." In Thomas Head, ed., Medieval Hagiography: A Sourcebook. New York: Garland, 2000. Pp. 781-803.
"Of Earthquakes, Hail, Frogs, and Geography: Plague and the Investigation of the Apocalypse in the Later Middle Ages." In Paul Freedman and Caroline Bynum, eds., Last Things: Eschatology and Apocalypse in the Middle Ages. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. Pp. 156-87.
"The Alfonsine Tables and the End of the World: Astrology and Apocalyptic Calculation in the Later Middle Ages." In Alberto Ferreiro, ed., The Devil, Heresy and Witchcraft in the Middle Ages (Jeffrey Burton Russell Festschrift). Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998. Pp. 211-39.
"Miracle, Memory, and Meaning in the Canonization of Vincent Ferrer, 1453-54." Speculum 73 (1998): 429-54.
"Defining the Boundaries of the Natural in the Fifteenth Century: The Inquest into the Miracles of St. Vincent Ferrer (d. 1419)." Viator 28 (1997): 333-59.
"Astrology." In The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition: An Encyclopedia (New York: Garland, 2000), pp. 527-32.
"Pierre d'Ailly." In Trade, Travel and Exploration in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia (New York: Garland, 2000), pp. 8-10.
UALR, CAHSS, Faculty Excellence Award in Research, 2006
Member of research group, Knowledge and Belief, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, 2003-05
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 2004
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fellowship, August 2004-August 2005
Editorial board, History
Compass