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I am an intellectual and cultural historian of the Latin West and Byzantium, with a particular interest in medical and scientific translations from Arabic into Greek and Latin in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, but also with broader interests in lots of things, including Mediterranean history, the afterlife and reception of classical antiquity, the history of science and medicine, and economic and environmental history. I received a B.A. in Greek and Latin from Kenyon College in 2005, an M.M.S. (Master's of Medieval Studies) from Notre Dame in 2010, and a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from Notre Dame in 2016.

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-I am an American student and a medievalist; my academic research is mainly the transmission of Ancient, Byzantine and Islamic knowledge into the Latin West, but I am also interested in Western intellectual and cultural history more generally.
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+I am an intellectual and cultural historian of the Latin West and Byzantium, with a particular interest in medical and scientific translations from Arabic into Greek and Latin in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, but also with broader interests in lots of things, including Mediterranean history, the afterlife and reception of classical antiquity, the history of science and medicine, and economic and environmental history.  I received a B.A. in Greek and Latin from Kenyon College in 2005, an M.M.S. (Master's of Medieval Studies) from Notre Dame in 2010, and a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from Notre Dame in 2016.
-My undergraduate degree is in Greek and Latin (B.A. Kenyon College, 2005). I worked on Hellenistic Greek poetry, and Theocritus in particular, but I also spent a number of years on Sanskrit and Sanskrit literature.
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-===Manifesto===
-Having spent a large amount of time outside the academy, and coming from a non-academic family, I deeply believe that critical thinking, intelligence and creativity are not confined within the academy. At the same time, though, I feel that lay readers and independent scholars frequently have a difficult time obtaining credible information and lack the resources they need to make use of the materials they can lay hold of. The internet greatly improves this state of affairs, but there are still many things that could be done, online and off, to make things even better:
-*Improved secondary education. Hand in hand with this should go
-*More cross-pollination between academia and schools. Academics should do more to connect with the schools in their communities, and teachers should do more to welcome them.
-*Open up alternative licensure. Many Ph.D. holders and ABD grad students in the US, particularly in the humanities and social sciences, are unable to find jobs in the academy. By sheer administrative pigheadedness, they are also unable to hone their teaching skills at the secondary level.
-*Improved access to academic libraries. All too frequently, independent scholars and lay readers are prevented from coming to their own conclusions because, unless they spend large  amounts of money ordering monographs and reference works on Amazon, they don't have access to the resources academics do.
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