Fordham University Lincoln Center - Theology
Fordham College
Lincoln Center
Courses Taught: Faith and Critical Reason; Byzantine Christianity
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Fordham University
Wheaton
IL
Led one of six teams responsible for removing snow from Wheaton College premises by calling workers out at approximately 4:30 am and throughout the day as needed
personally ensuring snow posed no reasonable liability to students
faculty
staff
and visitors.
Snow Removal Route Leader
Wheaton College
Wheaton
IL
Helped research and file claims and pleadings in Immigration
Family
and Bankruptcy Law.\nAssisted in teaching and grading diverse law courses
including Public Health Law
International Trade and Commerce Law
and Law and Ethics.
Legal Assistant
Mirabile Law Firm
Brookline
MA
I served as Patristics Teaching Fellow at Holy Cross during the summer session of the Pappas Patristics Institute in the courses \"Creation and the Divine Economia\" and \"The Formation of Christian Identity in the Second Century.\"
Patristics Teaching Fellow
Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology
Wheaton
IL
Worked for Prof. Alejandro Roop researching diverse subjects of Spanish literature
helped write a number of pieces
and undertook a full English translation of Rubén Darío's rather extensive poem \"El salmo de la pluma
\" partially published
for his project on Poetry and Kabalah.\nTaught a number of classes when the professor was indisposed.\nGraded essays
assignments
exams
and homework.\nTutored students in the class at their need.
Spanish Teaching Assistant
Wheaton College
Fordham Department of Theology
I conducted research for Aristotle Papanikolaou (Archbishop Demetrios Chair in Orthodox Theology and Culture) and Barbara Hilkert Andolsen (James and Nancy Buckman Chair in Applied Christian Ethics).
Graduate Research Assistant
Fordham University
Fordham University Department of Theology
Doctoral Student in Early Christianity
Fordham University
Brookline
MA
Taught Spanish literature and language courses to middle school
high school
and working adults.\nEstablished the fundamental library of Spanish classical literature for the Center's resource database.\nCo-wrote and implemented the curriculum for varying age groups.\nMarketed the Center and oversaw the enrollment of the first classes.
Spanish Professor
Spanish Cultural Center of America
South Hadley
MA
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Mount Holyoke College
Claremont
CA
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Scripps College
Lincoln Center Campus
Attending class
grading materials
and occasionally lecturing or leading class discussion for \"Early Christian Writings\" and \"The Ethics of Life: Jewish
Christian
and Muslim Perspectives.\"
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Fordham University
Classical Syriac
Spanish
Arabic
German
Greek
Ancient (to 1453)
Italian
Russian
Latin
German
Middle High (ca.1050-1500)
French
Catalan
Portuguese
French
Middle (ca.1400-1600)
A.G. Leventis Foundation Award for Medieval Greek Summer Session at the Gennadius Library
Athens
I received an award to cover my expenses and tuition at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens for the Medieval Greek Summer Session at the Gennadius Library.
A.G. Leventis Foundation
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Summer Fellowship
I received the GSAS summer research fellowship to study Christian-Muslim relationships during the 'Abbasid caliphate.
Fordham University
Han Scholarship Recipient
Recipient of the Paul and Katherine Han Scholarship (3 years)
Paul and Katherine Han Scholarship Committee
Chicagolands Champion: Distance Medley Relay
1st place at the Chicagolands Championships in the Distance Medley Relay
Chicagolands Track Association
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Travel Award
I received a competitive travel award to present my research at the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium.
Fordham University
Prestigious Awards Division
Presidential Scholarship
Fordham University
Holodny Prize for Most Outstanding Pre-Professorial Publication
Sophia Institute
CCIW Conference Champion: Distance Medley Relay
1st place at CCIW Track Conference Championships in the Distance Medley Relay
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin
Full Tuition Graduate Fellowship
Full tuition graduate fellowship for the duration of my degree.
Boston College
Three Holy Hierarchs Essay Writing Competition Winner
Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
I studied the formation of Christian identity through normative and quotidian ethics from the New Testament era to the mid-Abbasid era (ca. 10th c.) across a geopolitical spectrum spanning the intersection of Africa
Asia
and Eastern Europe. I wrote a dissertation on the relationship between the virtues and deification according to the Byzantine monk
Maximos the Confessor (580-662).
Early Christianity
Fordham University
Master of Theology
I spent the majority of my time working on advanced Greek and Latin texts
including histories and Jewish writings in Greek and Augustine's works
along with in-depth study of Proklos Diadochos
Dionysios
and Maximos
on whom I wrote my ThM thesis.
Patristics
Th.M. Thesis: \"On the Cosmic Mystery of the Virtues in Saint Maximos the Confessor.\"
Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology
Master of Theological Studies
I combined the study of modern virtue ethics and historical theology
particularly Patristics
in order to begin creating a relevant and helpful synthesis of the two.
Ethics and Patristics
M.T.S. Thesis: \"Free Will in the Cappadocian Fathers.\"
Boston College
Master of Arts (M.A.)
I spent most of my time becoming immersed in the Church Fathers
particularly those who lived in Alexandria for a significant span of time. I began to be interested in the free will dilemma in the pre-Augustinian Christian tradition and wrote a thesis on four figures who predated Augustine by centuries.
Systematic and Historical Theology
M.A. Thesis: \"Free Will in Clement of Alexandria
Origen of Alexandria
Methodios of Olympos
and Athanasios of Alexandria.\" |\nJoint Leader: Wheaton College's Catholic-Orthodox Dialogue Student Group.
Wheaton College
Free Will in Gregory of Nyssa
Augustine and his Heretics (Harvard XR)
Greco-Roman Contexts of Christianity
Byzantine Christianity: History and Theology
Advanced Greek: Cappadocians
Cappadocian Fathers
Contemporary Theology of the Trinity
Ancient Psychology
Alexandrian Theology
Church History II (Holy Cross XR)
Christology and Trinity in the Early Church
Cultural Hermeneutics
Ethics
Religion
and International Politics
Catholic Social Ethics
Advanced Latin Readings: Augustine (unofficial
Harvard XR)
Advanced Greek: Writing History (Harvard XR)
Eucharistic Theology
First Christian Histories
Graeca: Jewish Writings in Greek (Boston College XR)
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
cum laude
English Writing (Poetry)
Political Science
Biblical Studies (minor)
NCAA varsity track (4 seasons): 400m hurdles
400m
200m
Distance Medley Relay.
Wheaton College
Ministered to inmates to reestablish a sense of self-worth by discovering the meaning of being made in God's image.
Orthodox Christian Prison Ministry
Teacher/Tutor
I tutored and taught at-risk children from low-income families in order to bring their scholastic aptitudes in line with basic ones required by the state for public schools.
Puente del Niño--West Chicago
GRE
Verbal: 163/170\nWriting: 6/6
Virtue Ethics
Public Speaking
Legal Research
Community Outreach
Medical Ethics
Nonprofits
Neurobiology
Systematic Theology
Teaching
Copy Editing
Editing
Byzantine Law
Writing
Historical Theology
Research
Historiography
Historical Research
Historical Linguistics
Litigation
Patrology
\"Virtue Will Bind the Wounds of Your Soul: Yahya ibn 'Adi and the Love of All Humans under the 'Abbasids.\"
\"Virtue Will Bind the Wounds of Your Soul: Yahya ibn 'Adi and the Love of All Humans under the 'Abbasids.\"
Spiritual Fatherhood
Gabriel Bunge
Saint Vladimir's Seminary Press
A translation of Gabriel Bunge's \"Geistliche Vaterschaft\" from German to English.
Spiritual Fatherhood
The Psalm of the Quill (translation from Spanish)
A partial publication of Rubén Darío's \"El salmo de la pluma\" in English translation.
The Psalm of the Quill (translation from Spanish)
Saint Maximos the Confessor
Saint Vladimir's Seminary Press: Popular Patristics Series
A bilingual book edition with an all-new translation of one of Maximos' most eclectic and difficult texts
including an introduction to the translation and the structure of the work.
Saint Maximos the Confessor: Two Hundred Chapters on Theology and the Incarnate Economy of the Son of God
\"Maximos and Neurobiology: A Neurotheological Investigation of Asceticism as Erosion of the Passions and the Gnomic Will\"
Ed.: John A. McGuckin
\"Maximos and Neurobiology: A Neurotheological Investigation of Asceticism as Erosion of the Passions and the Gnomic Will\"
\"Divine Incarnation through the Virtues: The Central Soteriological Role of Maximos the Confessor’s Aretology\"
God's Many-Splendored Image (Book Review)
Luis
Spanish Cultural Center of America
Wheaton College
Mount Holyoke College
Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology
German International School Boston
Scripps College
Fordham University
Mirabile Law Firm
Wheaton
IL
I tutored approximately 250 students for their Spanish and/or German competency exams with a 100% passing rate.
Spanish and German Tutor
Wheaton College
Served as head Spanish teacher for grades 7--12
Latin teacher for grades 6--10
and ESL teacher for Spanish and German speakers
grades 1--4.\nFounded and coached the track and debate teams.\nCo-wrote and established the Internal School Spanish Curriculum on the basis of the Thüringer Lehrplan.
Spanish
Latin
and ESL Teacher
Greater Boston Area
German International School Boston