Curriculum VitaeDegrees
1974 Ph.D. in Medieval Studies, Yale University
1973 M.Phil. in Medieval Studies, Yale University
1970 A.B. summa cum laude in Philosophy, Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama
1968-69 Elève libre, Institut supérieur de philosophie, Université catholique de Louvain
Awards
1970 Woodrow Wilson Fellow
1977-80 Princeton University Bicentennial Preceptorship
1981 American Philosophical Society Research Grant
1981 German Academic Exchange Service Research Grant
1984-86 L.J. Skaggs and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation Grant 2
1986-87 Dept. of History Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching
1987-88 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
1990 Research Fellow, Max Planck Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen
1990-91 Member, Institute for Advanced Study
1990-91 Guggenheim Fellow
1994-94 NEH Public Programs. Creating Ethnicity: The Use and Abuses of History
1998-2000 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant
2005 Andrew Mellon Foundation grant for the Creation of a Virtual Reality Version of the Manuscript with Related Digital Scholarly Databases 2006 Lester K. Little Resident, American Academy in Rome
2009 Fellow, Hungarian Institute for Advanced Study
2011 Anneliese Maier Research Award, Humboldt Foundation
2015 National Science Foundation grant. Inferring Biological Relatedness And Genomic Ancestry Using 2nd Generation Sequencing
Research
Medieval culture and society, 500-1200
Continuing research on vernacular language, vocality, and memory in the Early Middle Ages.
Principal Investigator, The St. Gall Monastery Plan Digital Project (Phase One): Creation of a Virtual Reality Version of the Manuscript with Related Digital Scholarly Databases. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. http://www.stgallplan.org/
Principal Investigator, “Tracing Longobard Migration through DNA Analysis,” an international, interdisciplinary investigation of migration-era populations through DNA analysis.