Current Projects

Teaching at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. (History of Technology and Renaissance History)
Teaching at Canterbury Christ Church University (Media History)
Working on a translation and edition of an early fifteenth-century history of invention.
Writing an article on the organization of Hugh of St. Victor's mechanical arts.
Writing book reviews.

I earned my PhD from the University of Toronto. My dissertation is entitled "The Memory of Medieval Inventions, 1200-1600: Windmills, Spectacles, Mechanical Clocks, and Sandglasses".

Publications include....

I have an article forthcoming on Lynn White, jr.'s Medieval Technology and Social Change from History Compass.

"On Mills and Meaning" in Wind & Water in the Middle Ages: Fluid Technologies from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Steven A. Walton, ed. Penn State Medieval Series, 18. (Tempe, AZ: ACMRS, 2006).

See resume for a full list of publications.

Forthcoming Conferences and Talks of Personal Interest

The 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Kalamazoo, MI. USA. May 7-10, 2009.
I organized two sessions for AVISTA for this conference, entitled "Book Technologies I: Production" and "Book Technologies II: Use".
I also co-organized a session entitled "Weblogs and the Academy: The scope of the professional and boundaries of the personal in open, pseudo-anonymous, and anonymous blogging" with Elisabeth Carnell for this conference.

British Society for the History of Science
Leicester, UK. July 2-5, 2009

Diana Wynne Jones Conference.
Bristol, UK. July 3-5, 2009.
I will be presenting a paper entitled "Stew in Context", a historical survey of food technology, twentieth-century medievalism, and fantasy literature, at this conference.

International Medieval Congress
Leeds. UK. July 13-16, 2009.

Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Annual Meeting
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. October 15-19, 2009.

History of Science Society (HSS) Annual Conference
Phoenix, Arizona. November 18-22, 2009.

Renaissance Society of America Conference
Venice. Italy. April 8-10, 2010.