Academic Honors:

Internship, The American Numismatic Society, Summer 1988

Attended lectures on the history of numismatics and its methodology; presented a paper entitled: "The Proliferation of Mints in the Oise Valley in the Reign of Charles the Bald."

Fellowship, The Franciscan Institute, Saint Bonaventure, Summer 1989

Attended classes on Latin paleography and Franciscan History, and helped research entries for a catalog compilation of the university's manuscript holdings

Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School (CUNY), Spring 1992

A $10,000 award to defray tuition and research expenses while completing the dissertation entitled "Popes and Coins: The Ceremonial Distribution of Money by the Papacy during the Middle Ages."

West Point Summer Seminar in Military History (USMA), Summer 2001

Attended lectures on military history and completed paper.

Publications:

(Articles)

"The Kissing of the Pope’s Knee: Prehistory and Medieval Liturgical Practica of a Little Known Gesture." Archiv für Liturgiewissenschaft 38/39 (1996-1997): 251-272.

"A Brief Note on the Supposed Connection Between the Imperial Knee-Kiss and the Segmenta." Byzantion: Revue Internationale des Études Byzantines 67 (1997), 554-557.

"'I Have Neither Silver Nor Gold:' An Explanation of a Medieval Papal Ritual." Catholic Historical Review. 85 (1999): 531-540.

(Reviews)

Review of  The Origins of Major War, by Dale C. Copeland. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 38 (May 2001): 1676.

Review of War and Society in Medieval and Early Modern Britain,  ed. by Diana Dunn. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 38 (May 2001): 1684-1685.

Review of Cardinal Richelieu and the Making of France, by Anthony Levi. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 38 (February 2001): 1144.   

Review of  The Cathars: Dualist Heretics in Languedoc in the High Middle Ages, by Malcolm Barber. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 38 (January 2001).

Review of A War to Be Won: Fighting the Second World War, by Williamson Murray and Allan R. Millett. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 38 (October  2000): 384.

Review of The Treatment of War Wounds in Graeco-Roman Antiquity, by Christine F. Salazar. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 38 (September 2000): 192.

Review of Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women: Reading Beyond Gender, by Rosalind Brown-Grant. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 37 (July/August 2000): 2043-2044.

Review of Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate, by Susan P. Mattern. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 37 (March 2000): 1349.

 Review of The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities, edited by Isidore Okpewho, Carole Boyce Davies, and Ali A. Mazrui. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 37 (February 2000): 1148.

Review of Bathing in Public in the Roman World, by Garrett G. Fagan. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 37 (December 1999): 775-776.

 Review of African-American Culture and History, Macmillan Library Reference CD-ROM. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 37 (December 1999): 779-780.

Review of The Logistics of the Roman Army at War (264 B.C. - A.D. 235), by Jonathan P. Roth. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 37 (November 1999): 596.

Review of Strike the Blow for Freedom: the 6th United States Colored Infantry in the Civil War, by James M. Paradis. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 37 (September 1999): 217.

Review of When the Church Bell Rang Racist: the Methodist Church and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, by Donald E. Collins. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 36 (May 1999): 1675.

Review of Becoming Roman: The Origins of Provincial Civilization in Gaul, by Greg Woolf. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 36 (March 1999): 1318.

Review of Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon, by Rory Muir. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 36 (September 1998): 208-209.

Review of Centennia [Clockwork Software]. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 35 (July/August 1998): 1905-1906.

Review of Internet Modern History Sourcebook [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html]. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 35 (May 1998): 1598. [also available in Choice's Web II: Supplement to Volume 35: 159]

Review of Black Valor: Buffalo Soldiers and the Medal of Honor, 1870-1898, by Frank N. Schubert. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 35 (December 1997): 698.

Review of Union and Emancipation: Essays on Politics and Race in the Civil War Era, ed. by David W. Blight and Brooks D. Simpson. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 35 (October 1997): 359.

Review of Frontiers of the Roman Empire, by Hugh Elton. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 34 (November 1996): 514.

Review of The Boundaries of Charity: Cistercian Culture and Ecclesiastical Reform, 1098-1180, by Martha G. Newman. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 34 (October 1996): 298.

Review of Cremna in Pisidia: An Ancient Town in Peace and War, by Stephen Mitchell, et al. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 33 (June 1996): 1706.