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
I am on leave for the academic year 2011-2012.
Syllabi for Spring 2011:
History 1312.05 History of World Civilization II
History 3312 Medieval Civilization (online)
Other courses:
History 1311.14 History of World Civilization I (MWF, 9-9:50)
History
4302.01/5302.01 Magic, Science, and the Occult from Antiquity to Newton (MWF,
11-11:50)
History 4393.01/7395.01 (UAMS LHUMK) Disease and Society from Antiquity to the Present (M 6-8:40)
History 4390.03 The Historian's Craft (MW, 1:40-2:55)
Book:
History, Prophecy, and the Stars: The Christian
Astrology
of Pierre d'Ailly, 1350-1420. Princeton University Press,
1994.
Articles:
“Teste Albumasare cum Sibylla: Astrology and the Sibyls in Medieval Europe.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 41 (2010): 76-89.
"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, Summer Research Grant, 2011
UALR, CAHSS, Summer Research Grant, 2009
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
Medieval Europe section editor, History
Compass