Selected Publications
Books
The German Discovery of the World: Renaissance Encounters with the Strange and Marvelous. (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2008)
Articles
"Creating a Usable Past: Vernacular Roman Histories in Renaissance Germany," The Sixteenth Century Journal, 40:4 (Winter 2009), 1069-90
"Buying Stories: Ancient Tales, Renaissance Travelers, and the Market for the Marvelous," Journal of Early Modern History, 11:6 (November 2007), 405-446
"Renaissance German Cosmographers and the Naming of America," Past and Present 191:1 (May 2006), 3-43.
Articles in Edited Volumes
“Commerce and Consumption” in The Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations, ed. Ulinka Rublack (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016).
“Images of America in Sixteenth-Century Augsburg,” in Augsburg und Amerika: Aneignungen und globale Verflechtungen in einer Stadt (Augsburg: Wißner Verlag, 2014), 39-56.
“Between the Human and the Divine: Glarean’s De geographia and the Span of Renaissance Geography,” in Heinrich Glarean’s Books: The Intellectual World of a Sixteenth-Century Musical Humanist, ed. Iain Fenlon and Inga Mai Groote (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 139-158.
Awards
Kluge Fellowship, Library of Congress, Spring 2009
Faculty Research Grant, Washington University, Summer 2005
Fellow of the Dr. Gunther Findel Foundation, Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Summer 1999
Helen Watson Buckner Memorial Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library, Spring 1998
Dissertation Research Fellowship, DAAD, 1996-1997
Short-Term Fellowship, Newberry Library, Summer 1996
Recent Courses
Silver, Slaves, and the State: Globalization in the Eighteenth Century (co-taught with Profs. Miles and Dubé)
Text and Tradition: Early Political Thought (Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities)
Text and Tradition: Puzzles and Revolutions (Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities)
Europe in the Age of Reformation
The Creation of Capitalism
The World is Not Enough: Europe's Global Empires, 1400-1750
The Black Death and the Plague in Europe (Historical Methods Seminar)
The City in Early Modern Europe (Writing Intensive Seminar)
Advanced Seminar: Medicine on the Frontiers
The Culture of the Renaissance
Graduate Seminar: Gender in Early Modern Europe
Graduate Seminar: The Refomation
Graduate Seminar: Power in Early Modern Europe: Violence, Law, State, and Empire