Selected Publications, Articles & Presentations
Articles
with Eloise R. Knowlton, "Murder Mystery Meets Sacred Mystery: The Catholic Sacramental in Hitchcock's I Confess." In Roman Catholicism in Fantastic Film: Essays on Belief, Spectacle, Ritual and Imagery, edited by Regina Hansen. North Carolina: McFarland, 2011.
Review of Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West, by Anthony Pagden. History News Network. 16 August 2009. Read more.
Review of Travels With Herodotus, by Ryszard Kapuscinski, and The Way of Herodotus: Travels With the Man Who Invented History, by Justin Marozzi. History News Network. 21 June 2009. Read more.
Review of The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944, by Rick Atkinson, and Italy's Sorrow: A Year of War, 1944-1945, by James Holland. History News Network. 23 July 2008. Read more.
Review of Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England, by Lynne Olson. History News Network. 16 February 2008. Read more.
Review of Churchill and America, by Martin Gilbert. History News Network. 12 June 2006. Read more.
Profile of History, Theory, Text: Historians and the Linguistic Turn, by Elizabeth A. Clark. (pdf) Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory vol. 7, no. 1 (Winter 2005) 139-145. Read more.
Review of Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin, by Tracy Lee Simmons. The Classical Outlook vol. 82, no. 3 (Spring 2005) 123.
Review of Macrohistory and Macrohistorians: Perspectives on Individual, Social, and Civilizational Change, ed. By Johan Galtung and Sohail Inayatullah. History: Reviews of New Books vol. 27, no. 2 (Winter, 1999) 91.
Review of History and Historians: A Historiographical Introduction, 3rd ed., by Mark T. Guilderhus. The History Teacher vol. 32, no 4 (August, 1999) 572-573.
“The Study of Classical Mythology: Ideology, Archaeology and Writing”. Classical and Modern Literature: A Quarterly vol. 18, no. 2 (Winter, 1998) 137-154.
Review of Frank Boyden of Deerfield: The Vision and Politics of an Educational Idealist, by Bryan P. Cooke. History of Education vol. 26, no 3 (Fall, 1997) 331-332.
Presentations
"The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms and the History of the Linguistic Turn in the Time of the Enlightenment"
The International Society for Intellectual History
10th Annual Conference
Verona, Italy, May 26, 2009
"Helen and Paris in Homer and Herodotus"
The Association for Core Texts and Courses
Fifteenth Annual Conference
Memphis TN 18 April 2009
"Xerxes' Deliberate Expedition"
The Association for Core Texts and Courses
Fourteenth Annual Conference
Plymouth MA 4 April 2008
“Winston Churchill’s War Memoirs”
Endicott College Honors Program Speakers’ Series
Acts of Memory: What to do with WWII and After
Endicott College, 12 October 2005
“A Look Back at the First Iraq War”
Canterbury School Chapel Assembly
2 December 2002
“The Mystery of Ovid’s Exile and the History of Sexuality”
3rd Annual Boston Area Graduate History Symposium
Boston College 5 April 1997