Education:

BA, University of Virginia
MA, Boston College

 
Research Interests:

Religious reform in tenth-century Anglo-Saxon England, hagiography, pilgrimage.

 
Awards:    

• John Leyerle-CARA Prize for Dissertation Research from the Medieval Academy of America, 2013
• Boston College Graduate History Department Summer Fellowship, 2013
• Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award, Boston College 2011 – 2012
• Sewanee Medieval Colloquium Prize (best paper presented by a graduate student or recent Ph.D.), April 2010   
  
• Presidential Fellowship, Boston College, 2008 – 2013
• Stephen Innes Memorial Prize (best paper by a graduating student on the subject of “community in history”), May 2006

 
Conference Presentations:

• “Ælfric’s Intended Audience and His Two Lives of St. Martin,” 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (May 2012)
• “Teaching Doxology with Miracles: The Monastic Reform Movement and Lay Society,” 29th International Haskins Society Conference, Boston College (November 2010)
• “Lantfred’s Swithun and the Fundamentals of Reform: Educating Lay Pilgrims in Tenth-Century Winchester,” 37th Annual Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, The University of the South (April 2010)
• “Instructing Pilgrims with Miracles: Lantfred’s Manipulation of Swithun’s Vita,” 5th Annual Anglo-Saxon Studies Consortium (ASSC) Graduate Conference, University of Connecticut (February 2009)