CURRENT POSITIONS
Associate Director, Humanities Program, Revelle College, UC San Diego, 2018–present
Adjunct Professor, West Los Angeles Community College, Department of History, 2016–present
EDUCATION
Ph.D., History, University of California, Los Angeles, November 2015
M.A. and C.Phil., History, University of California, Los Angeles, June 2011
B.A. with Departmental Honors with Distinction, History, University of California, San Diego, June 2007
B.A., Philosophy, University of California, San Diego, June 2007
NOTABLE ACADEMIC FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Outstanding Teaching in Humanities, Fine Arts, and Social Sciences, 2021
UCLA History Department and Writing II Program Competitive Teaching Fellowship, 2014–2015
ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in Eastern European Studies, 2013–2014
Fulbright IIE US Student Grant to Lithuania, 2012–2013
UCLA History Department Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, 2011–2012
UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Graduate Student Research Assistantship, St. Gall Project, 2008–2009
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
UC San Diego, Revelle College, Humanities Program, 2018–present
West Los Angeles Community College, Department of History, 2016–present
Loyola Marymount University, Department of History, 2016–2017
UCLA Department of History, 2009–2011, 2014–2018
School for Integrated Sciences and Technologies, 2007–2008
OTHER PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Program Coordinator, Public History Initiative and National Center for History in the Schools, UCLA Department of History, 2017–2018
Managing Editor, UC Undergraduate Journal of Slavic and East/Central European Studies 8 (2015)
NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS
“Letters Of Gediminas” and “Peter of Dusburg’s Chronicle of the Prussian Land” select translation, annotations, and introduction. In Reading the Middle Ages. Sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic World, edited by Barbara H. Rosenwein. 3rd ed. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2018, 404–410.
“Preparing Students for Career Diversity: What Role Should History Departments Play?” blog co-authored with Michael A. Ryan (University of New Mexico), American Historical Association, June 26, 2017.
Response: Leonard Cassuto, “Walking the Career-Diversity Walk,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 23, 2017
Review of In Search of Sacred Time: Jacobus de Voragine and The Golden Legend, by Jacques Le Goff. Comitatus 46 (2015): 260–262.
“Tactics of Manipulation: A Revisionist Study of Gediminas and the Threat of Teutonic Invasion, 1315–1342.” Comitatus 42 (2011): 115–133.
NOTABLE CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Constructing Ideological Boundaries on the Baltic Frontier.” Paper presented at “Visions of Medieval Studies in North America: A Conference in Honor of Distinguished Professor of History Patrick J. Geary,” UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, April 13–14, 2019.
“Through Enemy Eyes: Representing Conflict on the Rus’ian-Lithuanian Frontier.” Paper presented at the California Medieval History Seminar, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, October 27, 2018.
“Between Admiration and Defamation: Reimagining the Knightly Ideal in the Wars against Lithuanians.” Paper presented at Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship, Webinar, January 26, 2018.
“Hero or Villain?: Mindaugas and the Image of Lithuanians in Medieval Chronicles.” Paper presented at “Global, Glocal, & Local: Distinction and Interconnection in the Baltic States,” AABS Biennial Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia- May 26–18, 2016.
“The Medievalist as Unicorn: Marketing Yourself for Success.” Paper presented at CARA Panel Discussion, 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 12–15, 2016.
“Godless and Accursed Litva: Representations of Lithuania in the Novgorod First Chronicle.” Paper presented at the 11th Conference on Baltic Studies in Europe, Herder-Institute of Historical Research on East Central Europe and Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany, September 6–10, 2015.
“Conflict and Collaboration on the Baltic Frontier: Peter of Dusburg and the Teutonic Order’s Crusade against Lithuania.” Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America and Medieval Association of the Pacific, UCLA, April 10–12, 2014.
“The Rhetoric and Image of Power in the Letters of Gediminas, 1322–1324.” Paper presented at “Images of Ducal Power in Medieval Poland,” conference at German Historical Institute, Warsaw, Poland, June 17, 2011.
NOTABLE SERVICE
Co-Organizer, “Teaching and Working in the Humanities: A Professional Development Workshop Series for Graduate Students,” sponsored by UC San Diego Graduate Division, UC San Diego Division of Arts and Humanities, and Revelle College, Fall 2019.
“Past to Page: A Panel Discussion with Comic Book Artists and Creators.” Organized and Moderated by Dr. Kristina Markman.” UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, May 7-8, 2018.
“Inspirational Illuminations: Reacting to Medieval Manuscripts. An Exhibited Curated by Dr. Kristina Markman and the Students of HIST 119D: Sex in the Middle Ages.” Powell Library UCLA, April 2–June 15, 2018.
Conference Co-Organizer, “Futures of History: Discussion, Demonstrations, Displays,” UCLA Department of History & American Historical Association Career Diversity for Historians Initiative sponsored by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, February 25–26, 2016.
