Education

• Ph.D. History, University of Cambridge, [Girton College], 1990.
• B.A. University Major in Medieval Studies, Wesleyan University, 1985.

Employment

• The College of New Jersey. Associate Professor of History, since September 1998.
• The College of New Jersey. Assistant Professor of History, September 1992 to August 1998.
• Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg.  Adjunct Instructor in History. January 1991 to May 1992.

• "Timur the (Terrible/Tartar) Trope: A Case of Repositioning in English Geography and History," Medieval Encounters (March 2001, forthcoming)
• "Exploration and Expansion," and “Tamerlane” in Medieval Trade, Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia, general editor John B. Friedman.  New York: Garland Publishing 2000.
• "Saint Louis, French Political Culture and the appeal to Imperial tradition," Studies in Medievalism 6 (1997)
• "Pseudo-Conversions and Patchwork Pedigrees:  the Christianization of Muslim Princes and the diplomacy of Holy War." Journal of World History 7/2 (1996).
• "The Rise of Timur and Western Diplomatic Response,  1390-1405," Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (November 1995).
• "Crusading for the Messiah:  Jews as Instruments of  Christian anti-Islamic Holy War,” in Tolerance and Intolerance: Social Conflict in the Age of the Crusades, eds. Michael Gervers and James M. Powell.  Syracuse:  Syracuse University Press, forthcoming
• Teaching the History of Sexuality," in Creating an Inclusive College Curriculum, eds. Ellen G. Friedman, Wendy K. Kolmar, Charley B. Flint and Paula Rothenberg.   New York: Teachers College Press, 1996.

• “`Santiago’s Steamship’ or `The Matamoros and the Machine  Gun’: Reconquista and Cruzada in 19th-century Spanish  imperial ideology.”  Presented at the 34th  International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan  University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1999.
• “See the World from Your Parlor:  Popular Imperialism and Consumer Culture in early modern Britain.”  Presented

 to the annual national meeting of the Popular Culture Association, San Diego, California, March 1999.
• “Western Crusades and Eastern Crusaders: Medievalism and Holy War in Greece and Russia, 1800-1900.” Presented at the 33rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1998.
• “Diplomacy and the logistics of distance: new approaches to Western-Ilkhanid relations.”  Presented at The Mongol Empire: Current Research, Round-table symposium, New York University, February 14, 1998.
• "Naked Bodies/Naked Souls: Conversion, Clothes and Couture"  Presented at the International Medieval Congress,

 International Medieval Institute, University of Leeds, England, July 1997.
• "Soothing the Savage('s) B(r)east(s): Women's Clothing and Covering in the Discourse of Colonialism.”

 Presented to the College of New Jersey Annual History Conference, April 1997.
• "Medieval Traditions, Medievalism's Inventions:  the Fall of Byzantium and Jerusalem in Modern Political and

 Popuar Culture."  Presented to the Delaware Valley Medieval Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 1997.
• "Crusades and Empires: the 19th century global application of a 12th century ideal."  Presented at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, June 1996.
• "To an Ally Unseen:  Power and Geographical Distance in Crusading Diplomacy."  Presented at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev/U.C.L.A. Conference commemorating the 900th anniversary of the First Crusade, Beer-Sheva, Israel, June 1996.
• "`Popular' Imperialism in the Early Modern Period?:  Mass Culture and European Expansion."  Presented at the 1st Convention of the Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 1996.
• Chair, panel on "Tolerance and Intolerance in the Confrontation of Societies during the Crusades:  Historical and Intellectual Perspectives" 18th Congress of the International Committee of Historical Sciences, Montreal, Quebec, September 1995.
• "Crusading for the Messiah:  Jews as Instruments of Christian anti-Islamic Holy War."  Presented at the

 18th Congress of the International Committee of Historical Sciences, Montréal, Québec, September 1995.
• Participant, roundtable on "Medieval Trade, Travel and Exploration" International Medieval Congress,

 International Medieval Institute, University of Leeds, England, July 1995.
• Chair, panel on "Religion in Medieval Iberia" International Medieval Congress, International Medieval

 Institute, University of Leeds, England, July 1995.
• Respondant/Chair, panel on "Economic and Cultural Exchanges Across the Mediterranean Frontiers (1000

 -1400)" International Medieval Congress, International Medieval Institute, University of Leeds, England, July
 1995.
• "Parades, playing cards and Prester John: Late medieval and early modern popular culture and the view abroad."

 Presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1995.
• "Holy War, Nationalism and the Legitimacy to Rule: Crusading imagery and imperial politics in 19th century

 France."  Presented at the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe, Arizona, February 1995.
• Organizer/Respondant/Chair, panel on "Cross-Cultural Interactions and Exchanges on the Silk Route," at the

 29th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 1994.
• "The Lost Church and the national spirit: Crusades and crusading in late 19th century French imperialism."

 Presented at the 8th International Conference on Medievalism, Leeds, England, September 1993.
• "You Can't Get There From Here:  An Eastern Pilgrim's Guide to Western Europe."  Presented at the

 International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1993.
• Chair, panel on "East-West Studies: Cross-Cultural Mercantile Exchange, Trade Routes, Travelers' Texts,

 and Textile Motifs in the Middle Ages," at the 28th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western
 Michigan University, May 1993.
• "Empires, Others, and Something with Horses: The Transformation of Timur in English Popular Literature,"

 Presented at Trenton State College History Conference, 8 April 1993.
• "Voyages of No Little Importance?:  The Discovery of the Americas in Eastern Historiography."  Presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1992.
• Chair, panel on "The West in the Eyes of the Orient in the Middle Ages: Europe as Image, Motif, and Influence

 in Medieval Eastern Texts," at the 27th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan
 University, May 1992.
• "The Negus and the Nile:  Ethiopia and the Crusades in Theory and Practice, 1095-1450."  Presented at

  the annual conference of the Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies, New York, New York, March 1992.
• "Creating an Enemy:  The Refiguring of Timur in English Historiography."  Presented at the 3rd International

 Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, Syracuse, New York, June 1991.
• "Pseudo-Conversion and Holy War:  Rumors of  Christianity on the Medieval Frontier."  Presented at

  the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1991.
• "Facts, Fictions and Frustrations:  the Mongols in Crusade Propaganda."  Presented at the Medieval

  Academy of America annual meeting, Princeton, New Jersey, April 1991.
• "The Friendliest of Enemies: Tîmûr in European History and Historiography from Medieval to Modern Times."

  Lecture sponsored by the Cambridge Mongolian and Inner Asian Studies Unit, University of Cambridge, March
  1989.
• "Byzantium and the Mongols:  A Marriage of Inconvenience." University of Cambridge, 17 February

  1989.

• General History:   World/Western Civilization I & II; "Athens to New York" ;This Year's National Election, 1996, 2000 (honors seminar); Popular Culture in world history (seminar); The Body, Nudity and clothing in History (seminar).
• European History:  Early Modern Europe; Habsburgs and Ottomans; The Crusades, 1095-1798 (seminar);

    Medieval Iberian Colonial World (seminar);  Witches and Witchcraft (group tutorial);  London: a cultural
    exploration (group tutorial); Sports & Imperialism (group tutorial).
• Gender Studies:  Eat, Drink, Man, Woman: a Gendered History of Food; History of Western Sexualities.
• Western/Non-Western Encounter:  History of the Indian Ocean Basin I & II;  Imperial Expansion of Europe I & II

  Native Resistances to European Expansion (seminar); Explorers' Exploits & Travellers' Tales (group
   tutorial);  First Encounters in World History (group tutorial); Cross-Cultural Encounters in Western History
  Islam and the West; Ethiopia and the West (group tutorial);  Indigenous Americans and the Colonial Encounter.

•         Begegnungen mit China : die Entdeckung Ostasiens im Mittelalter, by Folker E. Reichert, in Speculum
•         Mongols and Mamluks : the Mamluk-Ilkhanid War, 1260-1281, by Reuven Amitai-Preiss, in Mongolian

            Studies
•         Lodovico Gritti in Hungary : 1529-1534 : a historical insight into the beginnings of Turco-Habsburgian

             rivalry, by Ferenc Szakaly, on H-Net.  To read review click here.
•         Prester John, the Mongols, and the Ten Lost Tribes,  / edited by Charles F. Beckingham and Bernard

            Hamilton, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies.

           American Historical Association
                Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction
           Medieval Academy of America
           World History Association
           Delaware Valley Medieval Association (program committee 1993-present; Vice President/President-elect, 1996-97;
                    President, 1997-98)
                Society for the Study of the Crusades & the Latin East
                International Society of Olympic Historians