Chair, Professor of History
B.A., Rider College
M.A., Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara
- Europe, 500-1450
- Kings and Vikings
- History of England to 1485
- The Emergence of Modern Ireland
- European Women and the Family, c. 200-1500
- Modern European Women and Gender
- The British Empire
- Bishops, Witches, and Heretics
- Tudor England
- Revolution and Reformation in England, 1485-1714
- Medieval Towns and Trade
Areas of Interest
European history, British history, and the history of women and gender in Europe. Her area of research is medieval Britain.
- Henry I and the Anglo-Norman World: Studies in Memory of C. Warren Hollister, co-editor. Anglo-Norman Studies, Special Volume 17, (2006).
- "Monks and Nobles in the Anglo-Saxon Monastic Reform," Anglo-Norman Studies XVII: Proceedings of the Battle Conference, 1995.
- Review of Sharon T. Strocchia, Nuns and Nunneries in Renaissance Florence, in Choice, forthcoming.
- Review of Robert W. Shaffern, The Penitents' Treasury: Indulgences in Latin Christendom, 1175-1375, in Choice, 45/4 (December 2008).
- Review of Katherine French, The Good Women of the Parish: Gender and Religion After the Black Death, in Choice, 45/3 (November 2008).
- Review of William of Malmesbury: Saints' Lives, editors M. Winterbottom and R. M. Thomson, in Albion, 36 (2004): 78-80.
- Review of Michael Swanton, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, in Speculum, 76/3 (2001): 804-805.
- Review of Catherine Cubitt, Anglo-Saxon Church Councils, c.650-c.850 in Albion, 28 (1996): 280-281.