Office: Social Science Center 117

Education:
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1987
M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1978
B.A. (Magna cum laude), University of California, Los Angeles, 1976

Employment:
Denison University, 1987-1990
Gustavus Adolphus College, 1990 to present

Major Awards and Professional Activities:
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (U.K.)
Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge
Council Member, North American Conference on British Studies, 1999-2003
Associate Editor, Journal of British Studies, 2004-2009
Trustee, American Friends of the Institute of Historical Research, 2006-2009
Committee on the Morris D. Forkosch Prize of the American Historical Association, 2008-2010 (chair, 2010)

Selected Publications:
"Confession and Absolution in Caroline Cambridge: The 1637 Crisis in Context" in Retribution, Repentance, and Reconciliation, ed. Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory, Studies in Church History 40 (2004), pp.180-93.

"Good Pastors or Careless Shepherds? Parish Ministers and the English Reformation," History 88/3, July 2003, pp. 423-36

"The Boring of the Ear: Shaping the Pastoral Practice of Preaching in England, 1540-1640," in Preachers and People in the Reformations and Early Modern Period, ed. Larissa Juliet Taylor. Brill, 2001.

"English Funeral Sermons as Sources: The Example of Female Piety in Pre-1640 Sermons," Albion, 32/4, Winter 2000, pp. 567-97.

Practical Divinity: The Works and Life of Revd Richard Greenham (with Dr. Kenneth L. Parker, Department of Theological Studies, Saint Louis University). St Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Ashgate, 1998.

Religion and the English People, 1500-1640: New Voices/New Perspectives (editor). Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, vol. 45. Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1998.

"The origins, function, and status of the office of churchwarden, with particular reference to the diocese of Ely," in The World of Rural Dissenters, 1520-1725, ed. Margaret Spufford. Cambridge University Press, 1995: pp. 164-207.

Marriage and the English Reformation. Blackwell, 1994.

"Clerical Marriage and the English Reformation," Journal of British Studies 31, 1992, pp. 1-31.