Teaching at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. (History of Technology, Renaissance History, History of Civilization I)
Teaching at Canterbury Christ Church University (Interpreting Media, Research Methods, Introduction to Cultural Studies)
Writing an article on the historiography of tools in the Middle Ages.
Writing an article on the organization of Hugh of St. Victor's mechanical arts.
Working on a translation and edition of an early fifteenth-century history of invention.
Writing book reviews.
I earned my PhD from the University of Toronto. My dissertation is entitled "The Memory of Medieval Inventions, 1200-1600: Windmills, Spectacles, Mechanical Clocks, and Sandglasses".
"The Influence of Lynn White, Jr.'s Medieval Technology and Social Change". from History Compass (June 2009).
"On Mills and Meaning" in Wind & Water in the Middle Ages: Fluid Technologies from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Steven A. Walton, ed. Penn State Medieval Series, 18. (Tempe, AZ: ACMRS, 2006).
See resume for a full list of publications.
Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Annual Meeting
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. October 15-19, 2009.
History of Science Society (HSS) Annual Conference
Phoenix, Arizona. November 18-22, 2009.
Renaissance Society of America Conference
Venice. Italy. April 8-10, 2010.
British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS)
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. April 8-10, 2010.
The 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Kalamazoo, MI. USA. May 13-16, 2010.
Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery
Oxford. UK. July 9-11, 2010.
International Medieval Congress
Leeds. UK. July 12-15, 2010.