2007

• Keynote speaker, First Annual Purdue University History Graduate Student Association, "The Evolution of a Graduate Student into a HistorianOR 'How the heck am I supposed to get published?!'", Lafayette, IN, April 28, 2007.
• Author, "Civilizations of the Near East and Southwest Asia" one of 5volumes in this set on the Ancient World (pre-1500 C.E.). M.E. Sharpe,anticipated publication date August 2007.
• Participant, NEH Summer Seminar on "The Middle East Between Rome andIran: Early Christianity on the Path to Islam", Notre Dame University,South Bend, IN, June 18 - July 26, 2007 (6 weeks).
• Contributor, "Encyclopedia of Society and culture in the Ancient andMedieval World", to be published by Facts on File. Entries on: "millsand milling," "music and instruments," and "roads and bridges."
• Reviewed The West:  Encounters & Transformations by Levack, Muir, Veldman, and Maas for third edition for Longman Publishers.
  
• Reviewed, Essential Guide to Western Civilizations for Longman Publishers.

2006

• Organized 3 sessions on various aspects of the Bayeux Tapestry for the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 2006, chairing one session, and presenting in another.
• Research trip to France to gather information on French Revolution.
• Reviewed Henry I:  King of England and Duke of Normandy by Judith Green for Sixteenth Century Journal (forthcoming 2007)
• Reviewed Medievalia et Humanistica:  Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture, New Series no. 30:  Humanist Educational Theory, Gregory the Great, and Culinary Comedy for Sixteenth Century Journal (forthcoming 2007)
  

2005

• Reviewed for Longman Press proposal for a new text on "East Asian Civilizations"
  
• Reviewed for Longman Press Rhoads Murphey's History of East Asia (3rd edition)
  
• Presenting on "Shakespeare's Hamlet as a Reflection of the Time" at SJC Core Summer Workshop
• Participant, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on the Bayeux Tapestry held at Yale University, June-Aug. 2005.
  
• Writing review of Anne Duggan'sThomas Becket. (2004) and Church and Society in England, 1000-1500 part of the Social History in Perspective series published by Palgrave (2003) for  Speculum:  The North American Journal of Medieval Studies.
• Revising dissertation for publication
• Working on several conference papers on the Bayeux Tapestry