Teaches early modern and modern European history including women's history and the history of Christianity. Her research concentrates on martyrs and martyrdom in sixteenth-century France as well as gender issues in the Renaissance and Reformation. (Ph.D., Rutgers)
Courses Taught at Rider
- History of Christianity
- World History to 1500
- World History from 1500
- Renaissance and Reformation
- Italy from the Middle Ages to the Present
- Women in Europe from Antiquity to the French Revolution
Educational Background
- Ph.D., European History, Rutgers University
- M.A. History, Rutgers University
- B.A. History, University of Rochester
- Secondary Education Certification Social Studies, University of Rochester
Professional Background
- Rider University
Associate Professor
2006-present - Rider University
Assistant Professor
2000-2006 - New Jersey History, Newark, NJ
Editor
1999-2001 - Rider University
Instructor
1998-1999 - Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Instructor
1996-1997 - Journal of the History of Ideas, New Brunswick, NJ
Editorial Assistant
1992-1998
Awards, Fellowships, Etc.
- Summer Faculty Development Fellowship, Rider University, 2009
- Graduate Fellow, Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers University, 1995-1996
- Marion Johnson Fellowship, Rutgers University
Publications
- Burning Zeal: The Rhetoric of Martyrdom and the Protestant Community in Reformation France, 1520-1570 (Lehigh University Press, 2007).
- "Gender and the Rhetoric of Martyrdom in Jean Crespin's Histoire des vrays tesmoins," Sixteenth Century Journal 35, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 155-174.
- "Martyrs and Martyrdom" and "Théodore Beza" in Jonathan Dewald, ed., The Dictionary of Early Modern Europe (Scribner's Sons, 2004).
- "Martyrology" in D. R. Woolf, ed., A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing (Garland Publishers, 1998).
Research
- Article in progress, "Martyrdom and Amendes honorables: Criminal Penalties, Rituals of Repentance, and Obstinate Protestants in Sixteenth Century France."