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Assistant Professor of History

Research Interests

  • the crusades
  • Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle Ages
  • the medieval Mediterranean

Selected Publications

"Conversion and Saint Louis's Last Crusade," Journal of Ecclesiastical History (forthcoming)

The Barons' Crusade: A Call to Arms and Its Consequences. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.

"Negotiating Interfaith Relations in Eastern Christendom: Pope Gregory IX, Bela IV of Hungary, and the Latin Empire," Essays in Medieval Studies 21 (2004): 49-62.

“Tunis in 1270: A Case Study of Interfaith Relations in the Late Thirteenth Century,” The International History Review 28 (2006): 504-514.

“Negotiating Interfaith Relations in Eastern Christendom: Pope Gregory IX, Bela IV of Hungary, and the Latin Empire,” Essays in Medieval Studies 21 (2004): 49-62.

Courses

The Crusades
The Medieval Church
The Middle Ages
Western Civilization to 1500
Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Middle Ages (proposed)