Resume

• 2015

  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

• 2013

  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

• 2012

  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

• 2011

  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

• 2010

  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)

• 2006

  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