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Selected Curriculum Vitae

(See my full CV and published research here)

Current Positions

2022 - Present

Graduate Lecturer, U.C. San Diego

HIEU 104, Byzantine Empire: A survey course of the history of the Byzantine state from the reign of Constantine to the fall of Constantinople. This course will emphasize the importance of the Byzantine state within a larger European focus, its relationship to the emerging Arab states, its political and cultural contributions to Russia and the late medieval west.

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HUM 3, Renaissance, Reformation, and Early Modern Europe: The revival of classical culture and values and the reaction against medieval ideas concerning the place of human beings in the world. The Protestant Reformation and its intellectual and political consequences. The philosophical background to the scientific revolution.

2017 - Present

Teaching Assitant for Humanities Program, U.C. San Diego

The Humanities Program offers interdisciplinary courses in history, philosophy, and literature, with a focus on major aspects of the Western humanistic tradition from the 8th century B.C.E. to the Present. 

Education

2016 - Present

University of California, San Diego | Ph.D. Candidate in History

Dissertation title: "Unbecoming Romans" 

Comittee: Edward Watts (chair), Denise Demetriou, Anthony Kaldellis, Mira Balberg & Page DuBois.

2012 - 2015

The University of Ohio State | B.A. History (summa cum laude), with a minor in Latin

Senior Thesis: “The Churches of Northern Kythera.” Directed by Timothy E. Gregory.

Recent Publications

  • “The Two Lives of St. Theodore of Kythera,” Estudios bizantinos 9 (2021): 79-98.

  • "Reconnecting Sicily to Romania." (Under Review).

  • “The Functions of Geography and Ethnography in Herodotus’ Indian Logos.” (In Preperation).

  • “The Medieval Landscape of Kythera,” “APKAS Project Data Management,” and “Catalogue of the Churches of Northern Kythera,” Australian Paliochora-Kythera Archaeological Survey, eds. Stavros Paspalas and Lita Tzortzopoulos-Gregory. (Volume in Final Stages of Preparation).

  • The Letters of Aeneas of Gaza. Co-authored with Edward Watts and Jamie Marvin. (In Preparation).

Recent Conference Presentations & Lectures

  • “Why I Teach Mazaris’ Journey to Hades.” Teaching Conversations… Why I Teach. University of California, San Diego (by invitation). Fall 2023.

  • “Roman Sicily through the Eyes of the Arabs.” Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity Conference. University of California, Santa Barbara. September 21-24, 2023.

  • “Imperial Justifications for the Roman Conquest of Crete.” The Society for Military History. San Diego. March 23-26, 2023.

  • “Understanding the Churches of Kythera as a Response to Violence.” Mediterranean Archaeology Australian Research Community (MAARC) 3. The University of Sydney. February 13-15, 2023.

  • “Why did the Continuator of Symeon Magister use Prokopios as a Model for the Conquest of Crete?” Pacific Partnership in Late Antiquity. The University of Auckland. November 12-13, 2022.

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