Education University of Toronto, Toronto. Canada Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. June 2006. Thesis Topic: "The Memory of Medieval Inventions, 1200-1600: Windmills, Spectacles, Mechanical Clocks, and Sandglasses. " M.A. in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. 2000. Thesis: "Hugh of St. Victor, the Mechanical Arts, and the Heurematologic Tradition." University of York, York. UK M.A. in Medieval Studies. 1999. Thesis: "The Role of Meteorological Phenomena in Yorkshire Monastic Chronicles." Smith College, Northampton, MA. USA. B.A. with Honors in Medieval Studies.1997 Major: Medieval Studies (Italian). Minor: Computer Science (language and theory). Honors Thesis: "The virtue of Magnanimity as an ideal for leaders in central Italian city-states in the fourteenth century." Publications "Eyeglasses and Sunglasses"; "Windmills"; "Time, measurement of". Forthcoming in the Discovery and Invention Encyclopedia. (M.E. Sharpe). (Website) "Early Medieval European Agriculture"; "Early Medieval European Industrial Technology"; "Early Medieval Christian Historical Thought". Forthcoming in the World History Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO). "The Invention of Agriculture." Forthcoming in the AVISTA Forum Journal (Fall, 2007). "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). "Technology in Middle Earth" in J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia. Michael Drout, ed. (Taylor & Francis, 2006). "Medieval Approaches to the History of Metalwork." AVISTA Forum Journal (Fall, 2005): 75-6. "Craftsmen and their Spectacles in the Later Middle Ages." AVISTA Forum Journal. Vol. 14.1. (Fall, 2004). pp. 38-9. "The Late Medieval Consequences of the Apparent Atemporality of Hourglasses." AVISTA Forum Journal. Vol. 13.2. (Fall, 2003). Book Reviews "Review: Engammare - L'ordre du temps" Forthcoming in Isis. (June, 2008). "Review: Glick, Livesey, and Wallis - Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine: An Encyclopedia" Annals of Science. Vol. 64. No. 2. (April, 2007): 284-6. "Review: Frugoni - Books, Banks, Buttons and other Inventions from the Middle Ages" The Medieval Review (15 Feb 2006). Teaching Experience Highlights Lecturer, HIS 4301 "History of Technology" and HIS 1311 "World Civilization I". Taught online using WebCT. University of Arkansas at Little Rock. (2007-Present). Lecturer, PPR1112 "Key Skills." A research skills and essay writing class. Middlesex University. (Fall, 2006). Instructor, HPS 201 "The Origins of Western Technology." University of Toronto. (Fall, 2003). Plus a variety of teaching assistantships. Invited Talks "Dials and Deities: the Faces of Time in the Renaissance." Presented for the Centre for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Departmental Seminar. (26 January 2006) Imperial College. London. UK. "The Early Uses and Meanings of Eyeglasses." Presented for the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Colloquium Series. (3 March 2004). University of Toronto. Toronto, Canada. Recent Conference Papers "Organizing the Mechanical Arts" Presented for the Three Societies Conference (British Society for the History of Science, Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, and the History of Science Society) (July, 2008) Keble College, Oxford. UK. "An Urban Spectacle: The Craft of Theater in Medieval Histories of Invention" Presented for the International Medieval Congress (July, 2007). Leeds. UK. "The Invention of Agriculture." Presented for AVISTA at the Medieval Studies Congress (May, 2007). Kalamazoo, MI. USA. "Early Modern Awareness of Recent Inventions." Presented for the British Society for the History of Science Conference (July, 2005). Leeds. UK. "Medieval Approaches to the History of Metalwork." Presented for the International Medieval Congress (July, 2005). Leeds. UK. Other Presentations "The Technology of Tolkien's Middle Earth." Interview for Discovery Channel Canada. (First aired 17 December 2001). "Isis Inventrix: An Egyptian Deity in the Middle Ages." Presented to the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Student Association. (9 March, 2001). Academic Service Member, Board of Director, AVISTA. (July, 2005-2008). (AVISTA)