Curriculum Vitae

Florin Curta

EDUCATION

Degrees:

1998-1999: M.A. in Medieval Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca
1995-1998: Ph.D. in History, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
1993-1995: M.A. in History, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
1984-1988: B.A. in History-Philosophy, University of Bucharest, Romania

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2017-2020: University of Florida Term Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology, University of Florida, Gainesville
2013-2014: Waldo W. Neikirk Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology, University of Florida, Gainesville
2007-2013, 2014-2017, 2021-: Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology, University of Florida, Gainesville
2003-2007: Associate Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology, University of Florida, Gainesville
1999-2003: Assistant Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology, University of Florida, Gainesville
1990-1993: archaeologist, Institute of Archaeology “Vasile Pârvan,” Bucharest

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND RESEARCH GRANTS

Honorary member of the Romanian Academy, 2023

University of Florida Term Professor, 2017-2020

Visiting fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford (Michaelmas term, 2015)

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 2013-2014 Teaching Award of the Year, University of Florida (April 8, 2014)

Waldo W. Neikirk Professor, 2013-2014

International Educator of the Year Award, Senior Faculty, International Center at the University of Florida (November 2012)

Membership in the Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Princeton (Spring 2007)

Fellow in Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. (2006/2007)

American Council of Learned Societies fellowship for postdoctoral research in Southeast European Studies (2006/2007)

National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, American School of Classical Studies (Athens, Greece; 2006/2007; declined)

WMU College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Achievement Award (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, October 2003)

Mellon Visiting Fellowship, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, August 2003-May 2004)

Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Award, University of Florida (Gainesville, May 2002)

Dumbarton Oaks Summer Fellowship in Byzantine Studies, Washington, D.C. (July-August 2001)

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania (2001/2; declined)

Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Award, University of Florida (Gainesville, May 2000)

John McMahon Undergraduate Teaching Award, University of Florida (Gainesville, April 2000)

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences travel grant, University of Florida (Gainesville, April 2000)

Medieval Studies Program fellowship, Cornell University (Ithaca, September 1998)

Dumbarton Oaks travel grant, Byzantine Studies Conference (Madison, September 1997)

Graduate College dissertation fellowship, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, September 1997)

Samuel H. Kress Foundation travel grant, College Art Association Conference (New York, February 1997)

All-University Graduate Research and Creative Scholar Award, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, May 1996)

K-S International Scholarship, Office of International Affairs, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, September, 1996)

Fellowship of the American Numismatic Society Graduate Seminar (New York, June-August 1995)

Fellowship of the Südost-Europa Gesellschaft (Munich, July-August 1994)

President’s Research Scholar Award, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, May 1994)

Fellowship of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova (Chişinău, June 1993)

Fellowship of the Hungarian Commission of Monuments and Historical Sites (Budapest, October 1992)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Refereeing work

External consultant for the National Endowment for the Humanities-Fellowship Programs for Independent Research Institutions, in connection with the application of the American Research Institute in Turkey (October 2021)
Outside reader for Title VIII Research Scholar Program of the American Councils for International Education (December 2020)
Outside reviewer for ICOMOS World Heritage Unit, Paris, France (October 2013)
Outside reviewer for the Institute for Advanced Research in Princeton, School of Historical Studies (November 2008, October 2009, November 2010, November 2011, November 2013)
Outside reviewer for the Czech Science Foundation (GA CR), project No. 404/09/J014 (Felix Biermann and Jiří Macháček, “The system of land use and settlement structures as the framework for the rise and fall of early medieval complex societies in East Central Europe”), May 2008
Outside reader for the National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Fellowships administered by the American Councils for International Education (ACTR/ACCELS), April 2006
Collaborative Research Panel, “Archaeology,” National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Research Programs, Collaborative Research and Scholarly Editions, December-January 2005-2006
Referee for Cambridge University Press, Cornell University Press, Oxford University Press, Brill, Blackwell, Berghahn Books, and McGraw-Hill College Division, 2000-2017

Service (national and international)

Editor-in-Chief (2006-2018) and co-editor of the Brill series East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages (2018-)
Co-editor of the Palgrave Macmillan series New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture (2014-)
member of the Medieval Academy of America Publication Advisory Board (2006-2010)
member of the Advisory Board of the Cursor Mundi series of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (2007-)
associate editor, Medieval Archaeology (2014-)
member of the Advisory Board, al-Masāq (2013-)
member of the Editorial Board, Medieval Review (1999-2006)
member of the Editorial Board, Archaeologia Bulgarica (2001-)
member of the Editorial board, History Compass (2005-)
member of the Editorial board, Buletinul Monumentelor Istorice (2012-2015)
member of the Editorial board, Archiva Moldaviae (2013-)
member of the Editorial board, Acta Eurasiatica (2014-)
member of the Editorial board, Studia Universitatis Cibiniensis. Series Historica (2015-)
member of the Editorial board, Journal of Late Antiquity (2019-)
book review editor, Speculum (2016-2017)
member in the hiring committee for Sergiu Musteață, Valahia University, Târgovişte, Romania (September 2021)
Session organizer, “Archaeology of medieval Europe, I: history and politics in medieval archaeology,” 52^nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 11-14, 2017
Session organizer, “Archaeology of medieval Europe, II: bioarchaeological research in Eastern Europe,” 52^nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 11-14, 2017
Session co-organizer, “Military orders and crusades in comparative perspective: the Levant, Spain, and the Baltic region,” 52^nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 11-14, 2017
Session co-organizer, “Rulership in medieval Central Europe (Bohemia, Hungary, and Poland): ideal and practice,” 52^nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 11-14, 2017
Session co-organizer, “Crusading and the Byzantine legacy in the northwestern Black Sea region,” 51^st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 12-15, 2016
Session co-organizer, “The medieval Balkans as mirror: Byzantine perceptions of the Balkans and the world beyond,” 51^st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 12-15, 2016
Session organizer, “Innovation in identities, innovation in narratives: literature in the Mediterranean region in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages,” 51^st International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 12-15, 2016
Session organizer, “The archaeology of medieval Europe, I: non-monetary uses of coins,” 51^st International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 12-15, 2016
Session organizer, “The archaeology of medieval Europe, II: medieval colonization,” 51^st International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 12-15, 2016
Session co-organizer, “North and South: new directions in medieval European archaeology,” 81^st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, April 6-10, 2016
Session organizer, “The archaeology of early medieval Europe: new  advances in Avar archaeology, I and II,” 50th International Congress  on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 14-17, 2015
Session co-organizer, “The ‘good,’ the ‘bad,’ and the ‘ugly’ ruler:  ideal kingship in the Middle Ages,” 50th International Congress on  Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 14-17, 2015
Session organizer, “The archaeology of early medieval Europe: late  antique and early medieval churches,” 49th International Congress  on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 8-11, 2014
Session co-organizer, “A neglected empire: Bulgaria between the  late 12th and the late 14th century, I and II,” 49th International  Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 8-11, 2014
Session organizer, “Late medieval urban identities in Southern and  Eastern Europe,” 48th International Congress on Medieval Studies,  Kalamazoo, May 9-12, 2013
Session organizer, “Medieval Serbia,” 48th International Congress  on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 9-12, 2013
Session organizer and chair, “The archaeology of early medieval  Europe: new approaches to ethnicity,” 48th International Congress  on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 9-12, 2013
Session organizer, “The health and lifestyle of medieval  populations: a bio-anthropological perspective,” 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 10-13, 2012
Session organizer, “The archaeology of early medieval Europe (New approaches to mortuary practice),” 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 10-13, 2012
Session organizer, “Catalyst frontiers in Eastern Europe: frontiers and ethnogenesis,” 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 10-13, 2012
Session organizer, “Cyril and Methodius: new research on the Cyrillo-Methodian mission and its aftermath,” 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 12-15, 2011
Session organizer, “The archaeology of the early medieval Europe: hoarding,” 46th Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 12- 15, 2011
Session organizer, “The medieval transformation: a roundtable discussion with Jan Klápště,” 46th Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 12-15, 2011
Session organizer, “The archaeology of early medieval Europe, I and II,” 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 13-16, 2010
Session organizer, “On the fringes of medieval Europe, I and II,” 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 13-16, 2010
Session organizer, “Medievalism and the study of the Slavic Middle Ages in East Central and Eastern Europe,” annual meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Gainesville, March 25-27, 2010
Session organizer and chair, “The archaeology of early medieval Europe, I and II,” 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 7-10, 2009
Session organizer and chair, “Medieval Croatia,” 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 7-10, 2009
Session organizer and chair, “The archaeology of early medieval Europe, I and II,” 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 8-11, 2008
Session organizer and chair, “Medieval Bulgaria, I and II,” 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 8-11, 2008
Session organizer and chair, “Avar archaeology,” 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 10-13, 2007
Session organizer and chair, “Vikings in Eastern Europe, I, II, and III,” 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 3-7, 2006
Session organizer and chair, “History and archaeology of (Great) Moravia: thirty-five years of controversy,” 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 3-7, 2006
Session organizer and chair, “Saints and cities: combining religion and urbanism in the High Middle Ages,” 15th Biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, March 9-11, 2006
Session organizer and chair, “The other Europe: Avars, Bulgars, and Khazars (I and II),” 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 5-9, 2005
Session organizer, “Neglected barbarians of the fifth, sixth, and seventh centuries (I and II),” 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 5-9, 2005
Session organizer and chair, “East European Dark Ages: linguistics, history, and archaeology of the ‘early Slavs'” (I and II), 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 7-11, 2003
Session organizer and chair, “Emporia, Burgwälle, and castles in Eastern Europe” (I and II), 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 2-5, 2002
Session organizer, “Overlapping frontiers: religion and ethnicity in the Middle Ages” and “Borders, barriers, and ethnogenesis: frontiers and ethnicity in the early Middle Ages,” 116th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, San Francisco, January 3-6, 2002
Medieval and Early Modern Studies colloquium organizer and respondent, “Pre-National, National, Inter-National: Internationalization from Medieval and Modern Perspectives,” University of Florida, Gainesville, October 22-23, 2001
Session organizer and chair, “Between empires: conversion to Christianity in Bulgaria, Poland, and Hungary” (I and II), 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 3-6, 2001
Session organizer, “Limes, thagr and kleisoura: fortified frontiers in Late Antiquity” (I and II), 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 3-6, 2001
Session organizer and chair, “Medieval nomads and pastoralists,” 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 4-7, 2000
Session organizer and chair, “East Central Europe in the Early Middle Ages: a Sonderweg?” 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 4-7, 2000
Session organizer and chair, “Medieval Ethnicities and Archaeology,” 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 7-10, 1999

Service (University)

Faculty associate for Ciprian Crețu, Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher, and Vlad Andrei Lăzărescu, Fulbright Visiting Scholar, University of Florida (August 2019-May 2020)
Co-organizer of the visits of Kieran O’Conor (National University of Ireland, Galway) and Ioan Marian Ţiplic (“Lucian Blaga” University, Sibiu) on the campus of the University of Florida (February 2018)
Organizer and academic manager of the exchange program with the “Lucian Blaga” University in Sibiu, backed by Erasmus+ (2017-)
Organizer of the visit of Sergiu Musteaţă (“Ion Creangă” State Pedagogical University of Moldova) on the campus of the University of Florida (November 3-7, 2016)
Faculty associate for Iurie Stamati, Research Scholar, Fonds de recherche Société et culture, Québec, at the University of Florida (2016-2018)
Organizer and academic manager of the exchange program between the University of Florida and the University of Reading (2016-)
Co-organizer of the visit of Aleks Pluskowski (University of Reading) and of Santiago Castellanos (University of León) on the campus of the University of Florida, and of the mini-conference “New Perspectives on Medieval Archaeology” (March 31-April 1, 2016)
Co-organizer of the visit of Mitko B. Panov (Euro-Balkan University, Skopje) on the campus of the University of Florida (September 28- October 2, 2015)
Session chair, “Teaching the Middle Ages hands-on,” sponsored by TEAMS: the Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages, Vagantes Medieval Graduate Student Conference, University of Florida (February 21, 2015)
Workshop co-organizer, “Material culture in Late Antiquity: continuities and change,” sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (February 7, 2015)
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Teacher/Adviser of the Year committee, member (2014)
International Educator Award committee, member (2013-2014)
Organizer of the visit of Kieran D. O’Conor (National University of Ireland, Galway) on the campus of the University of Florida (October 15-18, 2014)
Faculty associate for Jaroslav Jiřík, Core Fulbright Visiting Scholar, University of Florida (February-
April 2014)
Organizer of the visit of Danijel Dzino (Macquarie University, Sydney) on the campus of the University of Florida (January 7-9, 2014)
Organizer of the visit of Mats Roslund (University of Lund) on the campus of the University of Florida (February 4-9, 2013)
Symposium organizer, “History, legacy, and heritage: a panel on heritage tourism in Slovenia and Spain,” sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (January 31-February 1, 2008)
UF in Florence Summer Program, director, 2006
UF in Cambridge Summer Program, director 2002
UF Archaeological Summer School, director 2002 (Granard, Ireland), 2003 (Lazuri, Romania), 2006 (Muro Leccese, Italy), 2009 (Pohansko, Czech Republic), 2010 (Guadix, Spain), 2011 (Killaderry, Ireland), 2012 (Uppåkra, Sweden)
UF Faculty senate, member, 2010-2013, 2018-
UF Faculty Steering Committee, member, 2013-2014
Budget Council, member, 2012-2013; chair, 2013-2015
Academic Freedom, Tenure, Professional Relations and Standards Committee, member, 2010-2012, 2016-
Research and Scholarship Council, member, 2013-2015
Preservation of Historic Buildings and Sites Committee, member,  2008-2010
Faculty Academic Advisory Committee, member, 2005-2007
Senate Compensation Committee, member, 2007-2010
Senate Nominating Committee, member, 2007-2009
Certificate Program in Medieval Archaeology, director, 2011-
Interdisciplinary Studies Committee, member, 2010-2017
Medieval and Early Modern Studies program, founding member, 2005-
Center for Greek Studies, affiliated faculty member, 1999-

Service (Department)

Modern Russian History Search Committee, chair, 2018
Department Workshop organizer, 2018-2020
Untenured Faculty Evaluation Committee, chair, 2018
Full Professor Advisory Committee, chair, 2012-2013
Tenure Committee, chair, 2008
Graduate Studies Committee, member, 2004-2005, 2014-2016
Policy and Personnel Committee, member, 2001-2003, 2008-2009, 2013-2014, 2019-2020
Full Professor Advisory Committee, member, 2010-2011
Hiring Committee, member, 2007-2008; chair, 2017-2018
International Program Committee, member, 2007-2008, 2013-  2014; chair, 2014-2015
Tenure and Promotion Committee, member, 2012-2013
Undergraduate Advisor, 1999-2003, 2013-2014
Advisor of the honorary History society Phi Alpha Theta, 1999-  2003
Early Modern Europe Search Committee, member, 2002
Ad-hoc committees for dual-career (spousal) hiring, chair, 2002  and 2003

Service (Local)

Lecture on the Balkan Neolithic for the Institute for Learning in Retirement, Oak Hammock at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 2010
Lectures on the Middle Ages for fourth-graders from the Talbot Elementary School in Gainesville, Florida, 2001
Lectures on the Middle Ages for elementary school children in the Sheriff Youth Ranch, Inverness, Florida, 1999

LANGUAGES

German (reading, speaking, writing)
French (reading, speaking, writing)
Romanian (reading, speaking, writing)
Italian (reading, writing)
Russian (reading)
Bulgarian (reading)
Czech (reading)
Ukrainian (reading)
Hungarian (reading)
Ancient Greek
Latin

TEACHING (Courses taught)

EUH-2001: Western Medieval Civilization (University of Florida, Fall 1999, Summer 2000, Fall 2002, Summer 2004, Summer 2009)

EUH-3121: Early Middle Ages (University of Florida, Fall 1999, Fall 2000, Fall 2002, Spring 2005, Summer 2005, Spring 2011, Fall 2018)

EUH-3122: High Middle Ages (University of Florida, Spring 2000, Spring 2001, Summer 2007, Fall 2011, Fall 2019)

EUH-3180: Medieval Magic (University of Florida, Summer 2022)

EUH-3182: Medieval Archaeology (University of Florida, Fall 2001 and Summer 2002, with archaeological school in Granard, Co. Longford, Ireland; Fall 2004; Spring 2006; Fall 2008; Spring 2010; Fall 2010; Spring 2013; Spring 2014; Spring 2015; Fall 2019)

EUH-3300: Byzantine History (University of Florida, Spring 2000, Spring 2002, Spring 2003; Fall 2009; Fall 2016; Spring 2020)

EUH-3323: Medieval History of Eastern Europe (University of Florida, Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Spring 2005, Fall 2008; Spring 2017; Spring 2021)

EUH-3383: Pagans, Christians and Barbarians. The World of Late Antiquity (University of Florida,Summer 2021)

EUH-3432: Medieval Italy (University of Florida in Florence program, Summer 2006; University of Florida in Rome program, Summer 2008; University of Florida, Fall 2009; Fall 2014; Spring 2019)

EUH-3473: Medieval Germany (University of Florida, Spring 2006; Spring 2009; Fall 2013; Fall 2017; Fall 2022)

EUH-3500: Medieval England (University of Florida, Fall 2016; Spring 2020)

EUH-3930: Feudalism and medieval society (University of Florida, Spring 2003)

EUH-3931: History of Orthodox Christianity (University of Florida, Fall 2011, Spring 2014; Spring 2022)

EUH-3931: Jews of Medieval Eastern Europe (University of Florida, Fall 2021)

EUH-3931: Medieval France (University of Florida, Spring 2017; Fall 2021)

EUH-4123: Holy War in the Middle Ages (University of Florida, Spring 2013, Fall 2018, Fall 2023)

EUH-4185: Viking Experience (University of Florida, Spring 2006, Spring 2008, Fall 2012; Summer 2014; Spring 2019; Summer 2020)

EUH-4186: Medieval Archaeology Field Practicum (Lazuri, Satu Mare district, Romania, Summer 2003; Muro Leccese, Salento, Italy, Summer 2006; Pohansko, Southern Moravia, Czech Republic, Summer 2009; Guadix, Andalusia, Spain, Summer 2010; Athlone, Co. Westmeath, Ireland, Summer 2011; Uppåkra, Skåne, Sweden, Summer 2012)

EUH-4310: Medieval Spain (University of Florida, Fall 2010, Fall 2016; Spring 2021)

EUH-4584: Medieval Russia (University of Florida, Spring  2010, Spring 2018; Fall 2022)

EUH-4930: Catastrophes in the Middle Ages (University of Florida, Fall 2014, Spring 2018, Fall 2023)

EUH-5195: The Archaeology of the Middle Ages (University of Florida, Spring 2011, Fall 2012)

EUH-5934: The Empire and the Barbarians (University of Florida, Fall 2007); East Central Europe in the Middle Ages (University of Florida, Fall 2013); Medieval Paleography (University of Florida, Fall 2015)

EUH-6126: Conversion in the Middle Ages (University of Florida, Fall 2000, Fall 2017); Village and peasants in the Middle Ages (University of Florida, Fall 2002)

EUH-6175: Ethnicity in the Middle Ages (University of Florida, Fall 2004)

EUH-6177: Economy and Society in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (University of Florida, Spring 2009)

EMA-1004: Impact of Materials on Society (University of Florida, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016; Spring 2017; Fall 2017; Spring 2018; Fall 2018; Spring 2019; Fall 2019; Spring 2020; Fall 2020; Spring 2021; Fall 2021), team taught

HIS-3942: Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages (University of Florida, Spring 2016; Summer 2017; Spring 2022)

HIS-6061: Introduction to Historiography (University of Florida, Spring 2015, Spring 2016)

HUM-2305: What is the Good Life (University of Florida, Fall 2013)

MEM-3003: Introduction to the Medieval World (University of Florida, Fall 2007, Summer 2016)

HIST-100: Early Western Civilization (Winter 1996, Western Michigan University)

HIST-360: Medieval World (1995-1997, Western Michigan University) MEDVL-101/3: Heroes and Villains (Cornell University; also taught between 1994 and 1998 at Western Michigan University)

Sociology (1993, Romanian-American University in Bucharest)

Economic History (1989-1992; Department of International Relations, Romanian Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest)

Ancient, Medieval and Modern History (1990-1992; German High-School, Bucharest)

Ancient History and Archaeology (1989; Department of History-Philosophy, University of Bucharest)

Ancient, Medieval and Modern History (1988-1990; elementary school and high-school level, Buzău)

DISSERTATION AND THESIS COMMITTEES

Chair, Ph.D. dissertation committees

Jace Stuckey, “Charlemagne: The Making of an Image 1100-1300” (Department of History, University of Florida, 2006)
Pavel Murdzhev, “The Medieval Town in Bulgaria, Thirteenth to Fourteenth Century” (Department of History, University of Florida, 2008)
Andrew Holt, “Medieval Masculinity and the Crusades: the Clerical Creation of a New Warrior Identity” (Department of History, University of Florida, 2013)
Andrei Gândilă, “Marginal Money: Coins, Frontiers, and Barbarians in Early Byzantium (6th-7th Centuries” (Department of History, University of Florida, 2013)
Matthew Koval, “Hopes, Fears and Possibilities: Children and Childhood in Medieval Poland (1050-1300) in a European Context” (Department of History, University of Florida, 2019)

Chair, Ph.D. examination committees: Jace Stuckey (Department of History, University of Florida, 2003), Pavel Murdzhev (Department of History, University of Florida, 2006), Andrei Gândilă and Andrew Holt   (Department of History, University of Florida, 2009), Matthew Koval (Department of History, University of Florida, 2014), Robert Lierse and Ethan Williamson (Department of History, University of Florida, 2019)

Chair, M.A. thesis committees

Shery Leung, “From Catholicism to Protestantism: Marriage in Sixteenth-century Germany”
Jamie Swindlehurst, “The Development of Ethnicity in Anglo-Saxon England with Emphasis on Northumbria During the Sixth and Seventh Century” (Department of History, University of Florida, 2002)
Namananda Henderson, “Ethnic Differences in Tenth-Century Danelaw” (Department of History, University of Florida, 2006)
Sean Platzer, “On the Evolution of the Byzantine Theme System” (Department of History, University of Florida, 2013)
Matthew Koval, “Children in the Churchyard: the Social Construction of Childhood as Reflected in Child Burials, c. 1000-1150” (Department of History, University of Florida, 2014)
Rachel Walkover, “Chrétien goes to Burgundy: Erec et Enide and Cligès at the court of Philip the Good” (Department of History, University of Florida, 2016)
Matthew Smith, “The Anglo-Scandinavian identity in Viking-Age England” (Department of History, University of Florida, 2017)

Chair, M.A. non-thesis committees: Anthony Pagliai (Department of History, University of Florida, 2003) ; David Dry (Department of History, University of Florida, 2010); Melanie Quintos (Department of History, University of Florida, 2010), Cameron Ruff (Department of History, University of Florida, 2018)

Member, habilitation thesis committee, Ioan Marian Ţiplic, “Power and religion in Transylvania. Paganism and Christianity (567-1095 A.D.)” (Institute of National History, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2014)

Member, Ph.D. dissertation committees

Valerie Austin, “The Orchestral Works of Meredith Wilson” (School of Music, University of Florida, 2003)
Michael Eugene Morse, “The Politics of Art and Religion: Absolutism and Catholic Iconography in Early Stuart England 1603-1649 ” (Department of History, University of Florida, 2008)
Eleni Bozia, “Lucian and his Roman Voices” (Classics Department, University of Florida, 2009)
David Hoot, “The Sanctuary of Asclepius at Epidaurus in Roman Times” (Classics Department, University of Florida, 2014)
Teodora Artimon, “The Proto-Myth of Stephen the Great of Moldavia” (Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest, 2014)
Iurie Stamati, “L’archéologie soviétique moldave entre propagande étatique et savoir scientifique: le ‘dossier’ des Slaves” (Département des sciences historiques, Université Laval, Québec, 2015)
Abiyot Debebe Seifu, “The Life and Death of Medieval Ethiopian Priests: a Bioarchaeological and Osteological Investigation of Human Mummies from Abune Mekeltsadik and Yimrehane Cave Monasteries, Ethiopia” (Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, 2016)
Rebecca Devlin, “Bishops and Community in Northwestern Hispania: Transforming Roman Society, ca. 370 to 470 CE” (Department of History, University of Florida, 2016)
Robert Scott Hussey, “A Collaborative Rescue Archaeological and Historical Investigation of Tétouan’s Mazmorras, Morocco” (Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, 2017)
Katelyn L. Bolhofner, “Conquest and Conversion in Islamic Period Iberia (AD 711-1490). A Bioarchaeological Approach” (Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, 2017)
Andrew Welton, “The Spear in Early Anglo-Saxon England. A Social-Technological Study” (Department of History, University of Florida, 2017)
Bryan Kozik, “Building a Cosmopolitan Episcopacy in Reformation Central Europe: Johannes Dantiscus’s Pursuit of Reform Across Latin Christendom, 1518-1548” (Department of History, University of Florida, 2018)
Maria Papaioannou, “Epigram and Cult: a New study of the Rock-Cut precinct of Artemidorus at Thera” (Classics Department, University of Florida, 2020)
Mark C. Hodge, “Dialectical Semblance: Blank Portraiture on Third- and Fourth-Century Roman Sarcophagi” (School of Art and Art History, University of Florida, 2021)
Sergiu Musteață, “Sedentari şi migratori în regiunile carpato-danubiano-pontice în secolele VIII-IX,” habilitation thesis (“Ion Creangă” State University, Chişinău, 2021)
Allison W. Raper, “The Blessed Sinner Beneath the Cross: Francesco di Vannuccio’s Croce Dipinta, Mary Magdalene and the Black Death in Late Trecento Siena” (School of Art and Art History, University of Florida, 2022)
Martha Pavao, “Epistolary evidence of amicitia between Cicero and Caesar” (Classics Department, University of Florida, 2024)

Member, Ph.D. examination committees: Steven Matthews and Theodora Dragostinova (Department of History, University of Florida, 2001); Jace Stuckey, Mark Correll, and Samuel Pierce (Department of History, University of Florida, 2003), Valerie Hampton (Department of History, Western Michigan University, 2008), Scott Hussey (Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, 2011), Ralph Patrello (Department of History, University of Florida, 2012), Rebecca Devlin and Andrew Welton (Department of History, University of Florida, 2013), Abiyot Debebe Seifu (Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, 2013), Denise Rose (School of Art and Art History, University of Florida, 2016), Mark C. Hodge (School of Art and Art History, University of Florida, 2017), Maria Papaioannou (Classics Department, University of Florida, 2017), Allison Raper (School of Art and Art History, University of Florida, 2018), Megan Fry (Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, 2022)

Member, M. A. thesis committee: Christopher Bonura (Department of History, University of Florida, 2011); Austin McCray (Department of History, University of Florida, 2015)

Member, M.A. examination committees: Justin Patterson (Department of History, University of Florida, 2002); Guy Earle (Classics Department, University of Florida, 2002); Daniel Conigliari (Department of History, University of Florida, 2015)

Major advisor for senior thesis

Jamie Swindlehurst, “Ethnicity in Anglo-Saxon England” (Department of History, University of Florida, 2000)
Aja Q. Ishmael, “Hasdai ibn Shaprut: a study of the motives behind his letter to King Joseph” (Department of History, University of Florida, 2002)
Meghan Dow, “A past imagined: politics, nationalism and archaeology in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ireland” (Department of History, University of Florida, 2003)
Valerie Hampton, “The Godred Corvan dynasty: power relations in the Isle of Man” (Department of History, University of Florida, 2003)
Jonathan Chandler, “The language of death: assertions of power from beyond (An analysis of the archaeological evidence discovered at Sutton Hoo and Malo Pereshchepyne)” (Department of History, University of Florida, 2005)
David Dry, “Germani Germani: sibling relations in the Merovingian era” (Department of History, University of Florida, 2008)
Stacie Sachs, “Burials of the Viking Age: a comparison of archaeological evidence from Iceland and Ireland” (Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, 2009)
Benjamin Weissman, “Anglian England and Danish influence during the Migration Period” (Department of History, University of Florida, 2010)
Dino Teskeredzic, “Creating a Bosnian identity in medieval Europe” (Department of History, University of Florida, 2012)
Gregory Leighton, “Castra et urbes lapideas: functions and legacy of stone castles of the Teutonic Order in the Holy Land, Transylvania, and Prussia” (Department of History, University of Florida, 2012)
Holly Soltis, “The strong one and the bright one: power and presence of Melisende of Jerusalem and Eleanor of Aquitaine in the twelfth century” (Department of History, University of Florida, 2014)
Jonathan Castillo, “Medieval German society in an age of upheaval. How the emperors, ministerials, and the Church gained (or lost) power” (Department of History, University of Florida, 2015)
Morgan Peltier, “Fictionalizing identity: race and religion in Muslim and Christian scholarship of the seventeenth century” (Department of History, University of Florida, 2019)
Jacob LeMaster, “St. George on the monastic island of Reichenau” (Department of History, University of Florida, 2020)
Colin Capp, “Conquest, continuity and collaboration: the establishment and survival of crusader states in Greece” (Department of History, University of Florida, 2021)
Jamie Paul, “Hands of our ancestors: how Viking mythology crafts material culture” (Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Florida, 2023)
Nelson Canales, “Reform or pragmatism? Pope Innocent III, the German lands, and the Iberian Peninsula” (Department of History, University of Florida, 2024)

Mentor, University Scholars Program: Davide Zori (Department of History, University of Florida, 2001); David Dry (Department of History, University of Florida, 2007); Ricardo Colon (Department of History, University of Florida, 2008); Benjamin Weissman (Department of History, University of Florida, 2010); Tyler Walsh and Janel Fontaine (Department of History, University of Florida, 2011); Stephen Scruby (Center of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Florida, 2012); Jonathan Castillo (Center of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Florida, 2013); Rachel Walkover (Center of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Florida, 2014); Anthony Boucher (Center of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Florida, 2015), Angelina Thompson and Ethan White (Center of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Florida, 2018); Dorothea Schmidt and Jacob LeMaster (Center of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 2019); Morgan Peltier (Center of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 2020); Lance Maulsby (Center of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 2021); Zachary Potter-Zimmerman and Nelson Canales (Center of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 2024)

PLACEMENT OF FORMER DOCTORAL STUDENTS

Matthew Koval – Assistant Professor, Humanities, Valencia College, Orlando (2018-)
Andrei Gândilă – Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Alabama in Huntsville (2013-)
Andrew Holt – Associate Professor, Department of History, Florida State College, Jacksonville (2010-2021)
Pavel Murdzhev – Adjunct Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Humanities, Santa Fe College, Gainesville (2010-)
Jace Stuckey – Assistant Professor, Department of History, Louisiana Tech University (2006-2012); Associate Professor, Department of History, Marymount University (2012-)