Contact
Address Division of Social Sciences, 5800 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota, FL 34243 Phone +1 (941) 487 4383 Office ACE 106
Director, Chart Your Course (New College's general education curriculum)
Co-Chair, New College Conference on Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Editor, TMR (The Medieval Review)
Series Editor, Artes liberales (Manchester University Press)
Series Editor, Later Medieval Europe (Brill)
Member, AHA Tuning Project
Books
Author, Urban Legends: Civic Identity and the Classical Past in Northern Italy, 1250–1350 (Penn State Press, 2011)
Editor, A Companion to Medieval Genoa (Brill, 2018)
Translator, Jacopo da Varagine’s Chronicle of Genoa (Manchester Medieval Sources, 2019)
Current Research
My current project is on Gregorio Dati's La sfera (The World), an early-15c geographical treatise.
On Plague
The recent COVID-19 epidemic has fundamentally changed people's perspectives on the medieval catastrophe of the Black Death. I've collected a few of my favorite readings on the Black Death and plague in history. Also, during the Spring 2020 lockdown the students in my Death, Hell, & Capitalism: Medieval Italy in the Age of Dante & Petrarch class created an amazing website of their work called Dispatches from the Brigata.