Current Projects

Teaching at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. (History of Technology and History of Civilization I; Syllabi (Fall, 2007) in PDF)
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.

On June 9th, 2006, I graduated from my PhD at the University of Toronto. My dissertation is entitled "The Memory of Medieval Inventions, 1200-1600: Windmills, Spectacles, Mechanical Clocks, and Sandglasses".

Recent Publications

"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

British Society for Literature and Science
Keele. UK. March 27-29, 2008.

Medieval Academy of America Annual Conference
Vancouver. Canada. April 3-5, 2008.
I am presenting a paper for this conference entitled "Nero's spectacles: The changing origins of a medieval invention" for the session "Thinking and Seeing Ways of Doing: Ideas and Depictions of Medieval Technology".

The 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies
Kalamazoo, MI. USA. May 8-11, 2008.
I am co-organizing a session entitled "Weblogs and the Academy: Professional and Community Outreach through Internet Presence" with Elisabeth Carnell for this conference.

Sixth Joint Meeting of the BSHS, CHSPS, and HSS
Keeble College, Oxford. UK. July 4-6, 2008.

International Medieval Congress
Leeds. UK. July 7-10, 2008.

Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Annual Meeting
Lisbon. Portugal. October 11-14, 2008.