“Basarabi: a rock monastery on the tenth-century frontier of medieval Bulgaria,” lecture in the Florida Museum of Natural History Archaeology Brown Bag Series (Gainesville, Florida, February 9, 2000)

“Byzantine Dark Ages,” lecture for the Department of Classics at the University of Florida (Spring 2000; again in Spring 2001)

“From Kossinna to Bromley: ethnogenesis and Slavic archaeology,” paper presented at the 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 4-7, 2000

“Language, ethne, and national gods: a note on Julian’s concept of Hellenism,” paper presented at the 20th Year Celebration Symposium of the Center for Greek Studies, Gainesville, February 18-19, 2000

Review of Byzantium’s Balkan Frontier. A Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 900-1204, by Paul Stephenson (Cambridge, 2000). In Balkan Academic Book Reviews 22/2000.

Review of Contribuţii la istoria spaţiului pruto-nistrian în epoca Evului mediu timpuriu (sec. V-VII d. Chr.) (Chişinău, 1998), by Igor Corman. In Archaeologia Bulgarica 4 (2000), no. 1: 99-101.

Review of Der Limes an der unteren Donau von Diokletian bis Heraklios. Vorträge der internationalen Konferenz Svishtov, Bulgarien (1.-5. September 1998), ed. by Gerda von Bülow and Alexandra Milcheva (Sofia, 1999). In The Medieval Review 00.05.05.

Review of Die byzantinische Kultur und die Slawen. Zum Problem der Rezeption und Transformation (6. bis 12. Jahrhundert), by Alexander Avenarius (Vienna, 2000). In Bryn Mawr Classical Review 00.12.04.

Review of The Elefanthy. The Hungarian Nobleman and his Kindred, by Erik Fügedi (Budapest, 1998). In The Medieval Review 00.07.13.

Review of “The Man of Many Devices, Who Wandered Full Many Ways”: Festschrift in Honor of Janos M. Bak, ed. by Nagy Balazs and Marcell Sebök (Budapest, 1999). In The Medieval Review 00.04.04.

Review of The Pace of Change: Studies in Early-Medieval Chronology, ed. by John Hines, Karen Nielsen, and Frank Siegmund (Oxford, 1999). In The Medieval Review 00.01.02.

“Stone dyke and rock monastery: on cave monasticism and the tenth-century frontier of Bulgaria,” paper presented at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Austin, April 13-15, 2000

“The ‘beech argument,’ the Prague pots, and the Slavic ethnogenesis,” lecture for the Linguistics Program weekly seminar, University of Florida, Gainesville, March 30, 2000