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Select Curriculum Vitae

CURRENT POSITION:  Training Coordinator, Crosslinx Transit Solutions

EDUCATION
2013-2023: Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD), Department of History, York University, Toronto, ON.
2012-2013: Masters of Arts (M.A.), Department of History, York University, Toronto, ON.
2008-2012: Honours Bachelor of Arts (H.B.A), Combined Majors History and Philosophy, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Intellectual and Cultural History of the Italian Renaissance; Italian Humanism; History of the Book; The Papal Court and the Renaissance Papacy; Medieval and Renaissance Rome; Renaissance Social and Cultural History; Late Medieval Catholicism; Historiography and “The Renaissance” as a historical concept; The long fifteenth century; Historiography and Philosophy of History.

LANGUAGES
English (Native), Italian (Working), Latin (Reading), French (Beginner), German (Beginner). Early Modern Italian and Latin Handwriting training 

SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Articles:
• Barry Torch and Jennifer Mara DeSilva, "Pius II and the Andreis (1462): textual circulation, crusade promotion and papal power," Renaissance Studies Volume 36, Issue 4 (September 2022): 590-609.

Assorted book reviews in Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme, the Sixteenth Century Journal, the European Review of History/Revue européenne d'histoire, the Early Modern Digital Review.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Course Directorships:
• 2019-2022: COM101: Communicating Across Contexts, Seneca College.

Teaching Assistantships
• 2018-2019: HUMA1125: Civilization of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, York University.
• 2017-2018: HIST1010: War, Revolution, and Society in the 20th Century, York University
• 2013-2018: HIST2220: Medieval and Early Modern Europe, York University.

Guest Lectures Given
‘Renaissance’ Humanism in Machiavelli’s World; Jews and the Renaissance State; Moving Forwards by Looking Backwards: Humanism and the Printing Press; Blood? Baptisms? Or Both? The Pre-Reformation Papacy in Context; The development of Italian Renaissance Art.

Teaching Fields
Medieval and Early Modern Europe; Social History; Political History

ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIONS
Renaissance Society of America, Society for Italian Historical Studies, Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium, Canadian Society for Medievalists, Medieval Academy of America