Publications

2026 “Beyond Birth: The Motherhood of the Mother of God in the Sixth Century.” In Arnold, Jonathan ed. Gender, Identity, and Authority in Late Antiquity, Routledge, under contract.

2025    “A Touch of the Miraculous: Tactile Piety in Gregory of Tours’s Books of Miracles.” In Adkins, Evelyn and Edmund Cueva eds. Materiality and Ancient Narrative, Barkhuis, forthcoming.

2021    “Lives, Lives, and Afterlives: The Exemplary Pedagogy of Caesarius of Arles.” Augustinianum 61.1.

2020    Kim, Young Richard and A.E.T. McLaughlin (eds.). Leadership and Community in Late Antiquity: Essays in Honor of Raymond Van Dam, Turnhout: Brepols.

2019    “Ordinary Christians and the Fifth-Century Reform of the Church in Gaul.” In Drijvers, Jan Willem and Noel Lenski (eds.) The Fifth Century: Age of Transformation, Bari: Edipuglia, 261-272.

2018    McLaughlin, A.E.T. and Lajos Berkes. “A Syriac Letter-Fragment Reused for a Greek Tax Receipt from the Early Islamic Period.” BASP 55.

Book Reviews

2025    Review of: Grig, Lucy (2024), Popular culture and the end of antiquity in southern Gaul, c. 400–550, Bryn Mawr Classical Review. 

2025 Review of: Castellanos, Santiago (2020), The Visigothic Kingdom in Iberia: Construction and Invention, Studies in Late Antiquity vol. 9.1.

2021    Review of: Jones, Allen E. (2020), Death and Afterlife in the Pages of Gregory of Tours: Religion and Society in Late Antique Gaul, Church History Review.

2020    Review of: Pazos, Antón (2020), Relics, shrines, and pilgrimages: sanctity in Europe from late antiquity, Bryn Mawr Classical Review.

2014    Review of: Alberto, Paulo Farmhouse and David Paniagua (eds.) (2012), Ways of Approaching Knowledge in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Schools and Scholarship, Bryn Mawr Classical Review.

Public History

2025                Contributing historian for The Triangle, the magazine of the Hagen History Center

2022               Consulted on local Catholic history for WQLN documentary series Chronicles

2022                Presented “The Cross and the Word-made-flesh: the Human Christ in Early Medieval Preaching” for the Lenten Pastus series, Our Lady of Mercy parish, Harborcreek, Pa.

2021                Presented “Witch Hunts and Holy Women: Gender and Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe” for meeting of AAUW, Erie, Pa.

2020                Wrote history for Celebration of Catholic Education in Erie television program

2019                Led public history project at St. Jude School

2016                Wrote feature article for History Department website on Van Dam retirement, fest (January)

2015                Wrote historical article on the Mad Anthony Wayne blockhouse for Lake Erie Lifestyle magazine, (November)

In progress

God in the Flesh: Materiality and Christology in Late Antiquity (monograph)

“Orthodoxy without Controversy: The Pedagogical Christologies of Hesychius of Jerusalem and Romanos the Melodist” (Journal Article)

Employment

2023-Present   Cathedral Preparatory School, Teacher of Theology and Social Studies

2019-2022       Gannon University, Adjunct Lecturer, Theology    

2018-2022       Gannon University, Adjunct Lecturer, History

2017                Mercyhurst University, Adjunct Professor of History

Education

2017                PhD, University of Michigan – Interdepartmental Program in Greek and Roman History

     Dissertation Title: Christian Pedagogy and Christian Community in the Fifth- and Sixth-Century Mediterranean

2016                Certificate in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Michigan

2013                M.A. University of Michigan, Classical Studies – Latin

2010                A.B. Georgetown University, Washington, DC, magna cum laude

     Concentrations: History and Classical Studies; Minor: Theology

Fellowships and Awards

2020                Small Research Grant for Early Career Scholars (North American Patristics Society)

2015-16           Rackham Humanities Dissertation Fellowship (University of Michigan)

2015                John H. D’Arms Spring/Summer Fellowship (University of Michigan)

2015                Rackham Summer Award (University of Michigan), (declined)

2014                Rackham Research Travel Grant(University of Michigan), (Winter)

2012                Rackham Research Travel Grant(University of Michigan), (Summer)

2010                Phi Beta Kappa (Georgetown University)

Conference Papers

2025    “Motherhood and the Making of the Virgin Mary in the Sixth Century,” Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity XVI, Tulsa, March (accepted).

2022    “Orthodoxy without Controversy: The Pedagogical Christologies of Hesychius of Jerusalem and Romanos the Melodist,” North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, May.

2022    “Flesh and the Material in the Christology of Gregory of Tours,” Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting, Charlottesville, VA, March (presented virtually).

2021    “‘Passible in the Flesh’: The Cross and Imperial Orthodoxy in the Sixth Century,” Byzantine Studies Conference, Cleveland, December.

2021    “The Fleshless Relic: The True Cross and the Word-Made-Flesh Christology of Venantius Fortunatus,” North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting, Chicago (virtual), May (rescheduled from canceled 2020 meeting).

2019    “A Community Built on Virtue: The Exemplary Christian Pedagogy of Caesarius of Arles,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May.

2017    “Sacred Flesh and Christian Understanding of Christ in Merovingian Gaul,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May.

2017    “Fifth-Century Church ‘Reformers’ and the Transformation of Christian Practice in Gaul,” Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity XII, New Haven, CT, March.

2016    “P.Mich. inv. 7198: A Syriac Private Letter on Papyrus,” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, November.

2015    “Lives, Lives, and Eternal Life: Teaching by Example in the Sixth Century Gallic Church,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May.

2014    “Reforming Christian Education in Late Antique Gaul: The Evidence of the Councils,” Vandalia Workshop on Late Antiquity, Columbus, OH, October.

2013    “Paulinus the Platonist? The Platonic Nature of Christian Friendship in the Latin West,” North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, May.

Teaching Experience and Distinction

Cathedral Preparatory School

Present             Sacramental and Moral Theology

                        Sacred Scripture

                        Sacred Architecture

Honors Sociology

Gannon University:

2022    The Bible: An Introduction (Spring)

            History Without Borders (Spring)

            Foundations of Theology and Christian Morality (Summer)

2021    History Without Borders (Spring and Fall)

            The Bible: An Introduction (Spring)

            Foundations of Theology and Christian Morality (Summer and Fall)

2020    Ancient Christianity, from Jerusalem to Rome (Spring)

            History Without Borders (Spring/Fall)

            Foundations of Theology and Christian Morality (Spring/Summer/Fall)

2019    Witchcraft from the Ancient World to Pop Culture (Spring)

            History Without Borders (Spring/Fall)

            The Bible: An Introduction (Spring/Fall)

            Foundations of Theology and Christian Morality (Fall)

2018    History Without Borders (Fall)

Mercyhurst University:

2017    European History to the Renaissance (Fall term)

University of Michigan:

Courses Taught:

2015    History of Witchcraft (Winter)

2014    The Writing of History: Politics of Education in the Ancient Mediterranean World (Fall)

2014    Ancient Greece to 323 BCE (Winter)

2013    Sport and Daily Life in the Roman Empire (Spring)

Origins of Europe II– Late Middle Ages (Winter)

2012    Origins of Europe I– Early Middle Ages (Fall)

The Roman Empire and Its Legacy(Winter)

2011    Ancient Greece to 323 BCE(Fall)

Additional Pedagogical Training and Awards

2016    Sidney Fine Prize for Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor in History

2016    Sidney Fine Teaching Partnership, with Prof. Katherine L. French

2014    Graduate Student Instructor Mentor – Department of History

2013    History 812: Teaching History (Prof. Martin S. Pernick)

Professional Service

2022-2024       NAPS Committee on Professional Challenges, Chair

2018                Reviewer for Studies in Late Antiquity

2015-2017       Forum on Research in Medieval Studies co-coordinator (University of Michigan)

2015                Planned and executed conference in honor of Ray Van Dam (University of Michigan)

2013-15           Three Field Talk Organizer, Classical philology, ancient history, archaeology (University of Michigan)

2012-13           Interdepartmental Program in Greek and Roman History graduate representative (University of Michigan)

2011-13           Co-Coordinator Department of Classical Studies Graduate Conference (University of Michigan)

2011-12           History Department Graduate Student Social Chair (University of Michigan)

Language Reading Proficiencies

French, German, Italian, Latin, Ancient Greek, Syriac