Presider/organizer, "A Millennium Ago: Thought 1010: Political, Philosophical, Scientific." Medieval Academy of American, 2010, New Haven, Connecticut.
"Stranger in a Strange Land: Getting to Know Henricus de Darbato." Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA), October 2009, Nashville, Tennessee.
Presider, "Irish Literature and Culture," Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA), October 2009, Nashville, Tennessee.
Organizer and moderator. “Round-Table Discussion: Teaching the Middle Ages at Historically Black Colleges and Universities.” Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA), October 2006, Oxford, Mississippi.
“Living with Multiple Sclerosis in the Middle Ages: Miracle Collections as Evidence.” Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA), September-October 2005, Daytona Beach, FL.
Presider, “East Meets West in Medieval Legend and Literature, Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA), September-October 2005, Daytona Beach, FL.
“Pre-writing Assignments: Renaissance and Reformation Europe,” Tennessee Conference of Historians, September 2004, Memphis, TN.
Presider, “Monastic Reforms,” International Congress of Medieval Studies, May 2004, Kalamazoo, MI.
“Danish Monastic Patronage in the Twelfth Century: The Intersection of International and Royal Interests,” International Congress of Medieval Studies, May 2004, Kalamazoo, MI.
Presider, “Anglo-Latin Grammar-School Education: In Honor of A. G. Rigg,” Medieval Academy of America, April 2003, Minneapolis, MN. "Culture Shock: The Experience of Abbo of Fleury in England," International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2002, Kalamazoo, MI.
"Imitators of P. Optatianus Porfyrius in the Early Middle Ages," 26th Annual Conference of the Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA), September 2001, Asheville, NC.
"Spreading Monastic Reform Abroad," 25th Annual Conference of the Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA), October 1999, Knoxville, TN.
"Franks and Gascons: Ethnicity and Religious Colonialism in the Central Middle Ages," Western Society for French History, November 1998, Boston, MA.
"Monks and Monarchs," Fordham Medieval Studies Lecture Series, February 27, 1997, Fordham University, Bronx, N.Y.
Commentator, "Regions and Global Connections," Mid-Atlantic World History Association First Annual Meeting, October 1996, Lincroft, N.J.
Organizer and moderator, "Saints and Civic Identity," Hagiography Society Session, International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 1996, Kalamazoo.
Organizer and moderator, "The Motif of the Crowd in Hagiography," Hagiography Society Session, International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 1995, Kalamazoo.
"Barbarous in Descent and Name: The Murderer of Abbo of Fleury." International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 1994, Kalamazoo.
"Murdered Monks, Murderous Monks." Violence in the Middle Ages, conference at Fordham University, April 1994, New York City.
"Social Class in the Hagiography of Fleury." International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 1992, Kalamazoo.
"My Brother's Keeper: Abbo of Fleury's Intervention in Monasteries." Haskins Society, November 1990, Houston.
Roundtable discussion: "Teaching Women in the Middle Ages," with P. Price, S. Horner, and S. Apgar. Southeastern Medieval Association, September 1990, Raleigh.
"Abbo of Fleury's Writings on Monarchy: English Influences." International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 1989, Kalamazoo.
Awards and Grants
Participant, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on "Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and Texts." 2001.
Endowed Fellowship. University of Minnesota, Department of History, 1992
Newberry Library Summer Institute Grant. Minnesota Newberry Committee. For participation in seminar on the French Archival Sciences and the Ancien Régime, taught by B. Barbiche of the Ecole des Chartes, 1991
Grant for Research Abroad. University of Minnesota Graduate School and Minneapolis Foundation-Frances E. Andrews-Hunt Fund. For research in French and British archives, 1991
University Fellowship. University of Minnesota Graduate School, 1984-5
University and Community Service
Lecturer, "Saints and Sinners in the Middle Ages." Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Winter 2010.
Chair, Departmental Curriculum Committee, Department of History, Geography, and Political Science, Tennessee State University, 2003-present
Search Committees, Department of History, Geography, and Political Science, Tennessee State University, 2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2005-2006, 2009
Faculty Senate, Tennessee State University, 2000-2003.
Facilities and Resources Committee (Chair), Department of History, Geography, and Political Science, Tennessee State University, 2001-2003.
Student Outreach Committee, Department of History, Geography, and Political Science, Tennessee State University, 2000-present.
General Education Committee, Lock Haven University, 1993-95.
Chair, Multicultural Subcommittee of General Education Committee, Lock Haven University, 1994-95.
Visual Education Committee, Department of History, Political Science, Economics, and Management, Lock Haven University, 1992-95.
