Education

Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, NY, 2000

Department of Religion, Dissertation: "Cyril of Alexandria and the Nestorian Controversy," with distinction; Dissertation Adviser: Roger Bagnall

S.T.M., Union Theological Seminary, New York, NY

M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA

J.D., Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA

B.A., Smith College, Northampton, MA

Music History and Theory, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa

Grants and Fellowships:

Mellon Research Fellow, Department of History, Princeton University,

Princeton, NJ, Spring, 2003

Mary Seeger O'Boyle Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2001-2002

Mellon Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, Department of Classics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2000-2001

President's Fellowship, Columbia University, New York, NY, 1994-1999

Exchange Scholar, Department of Religion, Brown University, Providence, RI, Fall, 1996

Selected Lectures and Invited Conferences:

"Mind and Sensation in Gregory of Nyssa," Morning Lecture, Oxford International Patristics Conference, Oxford, England, August, 2007

"Text and Tradition in the Monothelete Controversy," International Byzantine Conference, London, England, August, 2006

"Forgery in Early Byzantium," Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, November, 2003

"Forgery and the Monothelete Controversy," Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, December, 2001

Academic Positions:

Assistant Professor, Church History and Historical Theology, School of Theology and Religious Studies, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, Fall, 2004-present

Lecturer, Department of Religion and the Program in the Ancient World, Princeton University, Spring, 2003

Lecturer, Department of Classics and the Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Fall, 2003

Mellon Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow, Department of Classics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2000-2001

Teaching Assistant and Researcher, Department of Religion, Columbia University, New York, NY, 1995-1999

Courses Taught:

Lecture courses: Ancient and Medieval Church History; Women in the Christian Tradition; Byzantine Theocracy: Church and State from the Fourth to Eighth Centuries AD; Introduction to Postclassical Greek from the Late Antique to the Byzantine Era

Seminars: The Cappadocian Theologians; Irenaeus and the Gnostics; Patristic Anthropology; Gregory of Nyssa; Coptic Language and Literature; Byzantine Iconoclasm; The Formation of Orthodoxy from Nicaea I to Nicaea II; Patristic Thought and the Emotions; Topics in Greek Patristics I and II.

Independent Studies: Basil of Caesarea's On The Holy Spirit; Introduction to Sahidic Coptic; John Chrysostom and his polemic against the Jews

Languages:

Greek, Latin, Coptic, French, German

Additional Work Experience:

Attorney, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Boston, MA, 1988-1989

Member of litigation department that practiced international corporate law and handled pro bono criminal cases

Attorney, Rädler, Raupach & Partner, Munich, Germany, 1987

Drafted international partnership documents, translated international corporate documents from German into English, wrote article on choice of law problems affecting international corporations: "Sitz- und Grundungstheorie im internationalen Gesellschaftsrecht," GmbH-Rundschau (jointly) (November 1988)

Musician, Springfield Symphony Orchestra, Springfield, MA, 1982-1985

Performed flute and piccolo in symphony orchestra