Department Faculty

“I am an early modern historian of Germany and the British North Atlantic; my primary interests are in the history of the law and Christianity (Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant). I try to keep up with early mondern Spain and Latin American history, and my graduate training in Religious Studies informs the Christian Thinkers course, (Augustine, Luther); Introduction to Orthodox Christianity; early modern mysticism and science, and courses on church-state relations. I co-direct the Max Kade German-American Research Institute that seeks to promote the best scholarship on early modern German-speakers. I've just edited a volume of essays (Ethnographies and Exchanges: Native Americans, Moravians, and Catholics in early North America) that reflects some of those interests. Two co-authored essays are now finished, one on Byzantine marriage canons and contemporary Orthodox Christianity; a second (Changing Churches) examines Orthodox-Roman Catholic-Lutheran relationships in the contemporary world. My monograph Hopes for Better Spouses: Marriage and Protestant Church Renewal, 1690-1790 is nearing completion. I serve as President of the Orthodox Theological Society in America.”