Academic Degrees

Ph.D., Graduate Theological Union; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., B.A., Pacific Union College

Research Areas

Medieval religious and intellectual history, Medieval Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations, Paleography and textual criticism.

Honors and Awards

Visiting Research Scholar, Université Charles de Gaulle, Lille, France, 1994-1995.

Visiting Research Associate, Westfield College, University of London, Summer 1995.

Member, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Princeton, 1989-1990.

Books

Co-ed., Florilegium Hispanicum: Medieval and Golden Age Studies Presented to Dorothy Clotelle Clarke. Ed. with John S. Geary and Charles B. Faulhaber. Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1983.

Recent Articles and Book Chapters

"Playing and Praying: What's Luck Got to Do with It?" In: Alan Wolfe and Erik C. Owens, eds. Gambling: Mapping the American Moral Landscape. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2009, pp. 291-97, 439-40.

Recent Papers and Presentations

"Tales from the Script: Attitudes toward Conversos in Recently Discovered and Translated Polemic Texts from Spain," History Department Colloquium, Duke University, November 15, 2010.

“Prayers and Players: (And, with Apologies to Tina Turner) What’s Luck Got to Do with It?” Gambling and the American Moral Landscape. Boston College. October 26, 2007.

“The Alborayque: A Seedbed of Riddles, A Hotbed of Controversy.” Department of Spanish & Portuguese Languages & Cultures. Princeton University. October 5, 2006.

“Jewish Literature: Its Nature and Place in World Culture.” Co-organizer and panelist. Spring Salon. Jewish Studies Program. Boston College. February 6, 2006.

“A Converso Wannabe: Hernando el Marrano and Late-Fifteenth-Century Anti-Jewish Satire.” Forty-Seventh Midwest Modern Language Association Convention. Milwaukee. November 11, 2005.

“Funny, They Don’t Look Jewish’: Confusing Converts in Medieval Spain.” Inaugural lecture of Jewish Studies Program, Boston College. October 11, 2005. Available on “Front Row,” Boston College’s series of public lectures.