Education:

• Ph.D. - Columbia University
• M.A. - Columbia University
• B.A. - Columbia University

Awards and Honors:

Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (AY2008)                               The U.S. Naval Academy's Service Excellence Award (2008)                                The U.S. Naval Academy's Research Excellence Award (2003)                             The U.S. Naval Academy's Excellence in Teaching Award (1991)                         NEH Grant: "Teaching Ethics in the Humanities Core at USNA (1993-1994)          Dept. of the Navy Meritorious Civil Service Medal (1991, 2003, 2008)

Monographs and Edited Books:

Alfred the Great: War, Kingship and Culture in Ninth-Century England (Longman, 1998).

      Lordship and Military Obligation in Anglo-Saxon England (University of California, 1988).

 Co-edited with Barnard S. Bachrach: The Normans and their Adversaries: Essays in Memory of C. Warren Hollister (Boydell and Brewer, 2001).

Selected Articles and Book Chapters:

“What has Weland to do with Christ? The Franks Casket and the Acculturation of Christianity in Early Anglo-Saxon England.”
Speculum (July 2009).

“The Historiography of a Construct: ‘Feudalism’ and the Medieval Historian.” History Compass. Online at
http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/history/ (2009)

"Cultural Representation and the Practice of War int he Middle Ages." Journal of Medieval Military History 6 (2008): 1-31.

"Mercenaries and Paid Men in Anglo-Saxon England." Pp. 143-66 in Mercenaries and Paid Men: The Mercenary Identity in the Middle Ages. Ed. John France. Brill, 2008.

"Paying the Danegeld: Anglo-Saxon peacemaking with the vikings." Pp. 173-92 in War and Peace in Ancient and Medieval History. Ed. Philip de Souza and John France. Cambridge University Press, 2008.

"King Alfred the Great and his Biographers: Images and Imagination." In David Bates, Julia Crick, and Sarah Hamilton (eds), Writing Medieval Biography, 750-1250: Essays in Honour of Frank Barlow.  Boydel and Brewer, 2006.

"Cowardice and Duty in Anglo-Saxon England."  Journal of Medieval Military History 4 (2006).

"Alfred the Great, the micelhaethen here and the viking threat."  In Timothy Reuter, ed., Alfred the Great: Papers from the Eleventh-Centenary Conferences. Aldershot, Hants.: Ashgate, 2003.

"From Alfred to Harold II: The Military Failure of the Late Anglo-Saxon State."  In The Normans and their Adversaries (2001).

"English Tactics and Strategy in the Late Tenth Century." Pp. 143-55 in The Battle of Maldon A.D. 991. Ed. D.G. Scragg. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991.

"Bookland and Fyrd Service in Late Saxon England," Anglo-Norman Studies 7 (1985), pp. 1-25. Reprinted with additions in The Battle of Hastings. Ed. Stephen Morillo.  Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1995.  Reprinted Warfare in the Dark Ages. Ed. John France and Kelly De Vries. Ashgate, 2008.

"The Participation of Women in Languedocian Catharism," Mediaeval Studies 41 (1979): 215-251. (With E. Harrison).

Current Research:

My research has focused on the military history of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England from the eighth through eleventh century.  I am currently working on a book about the influences of culture on the practice and representation of warfare in the Middle Ages, 500-1500.

Professional Associations:

The Royal Historical Society, The Charles Homer Haskins Society, The Mediaeval Academy, The American Historical Society, The North American Conference on British Studies, De Re Militari, AAUP