Announcements
Office Hours – Spring 2021
By Appointment Only
Personal Statement:
I am a historian of the late ancient Mediterranean. After earning a B.A. in Medieval History, I turned things Byzantine and earned an M.A. in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies from King’s College London. My research interests broadly embrace topics pertaining to the history of philosophy, spirituality, and society in the Mediterranean and Middle East from the 2nd – 6th centuries CE. I am currently using theories of space, place, and materiality in order to reconstruct the particular numinous materiality experienced by late Romans of all confessional affiliations. I contend that the basic cosmological framework used by Christians, Platonists, Gnostics, Manichaeans, Jews, and more was essentially the same, and that this clues us into the fantastically engaged spiritual world of the late ancient Mediterranean.
Teaching Fields:
Late Antiquity – Roman Studies – New Testament & Early Christianity – World History
Courses Taught:
Instructor
History of Christianity: Beginnings – 800CE (HIST 114A)
Teaching Assistant
History of Christianity: Beginnings – 800CE (HIST 114A)
World History: Prehistory – 1000 CE (HIST 2A)
World History: 1700 CE – Present (HIST 2C)
Awards & Professional Activities:
Awards and Honors
Harold and Kathleen Drake Award (2019) – History
Thomas Sizgorich Memorial Award (2018) – History
Fellowships and Grants
Departmental Research Travel Grant (2019) – History
Dumas Travel Scholarship (2019) – Classics
Late Ancient Studies Fellowship (2018-Present) – History
Publishing Experience
Graduate Advisor, UCSB Journal of History (2020-Present)
Editorial Assistant, Studies in Late Antiquity: A Journal (2018-2020)