Welcome to my webpage! I have been teaching for the History and Interdisciplinary General Education (IGE) Departments at Cal Poly Pomona since 1999, and I was hired as an assistant professor IGE in 2005. A Cal Poly alumnus, I also hold degrees in history from UCLA and religion from Claremont Graduate University. I specialize in the social, cultural, and religious history of the Greek and Roman world through Late Antiquity with a focus on the rise of Christianity. My dissertation, “Houses of the Holy: Roman and Christian Domestic Piety in the Latin West, 100-600 CE,” examined popular notions of divine beings, sacred spaces, and the religious role of the family in the Roman domus. I have prepared and published articles on Greek and Roman history and religion, early Christianity, and college teaching. Among other projects, I am currently working on a book that examines household religion across cultures.

This webpage is designed to supplement my IGE courses, providing syllabi, links to relevant materials, and course message boards to foster more collaborative learning.

Message Boards

IGE 121H TTH 8AM
IGE 121 TTH 10AM

Select Publications:

• “Christian Heterodoxies and Heresies, 300-500 CE,” in World History Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO, forthcoming).
  
  
• "The Early Church Commentators,” in World History Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO, forthcoming).
  
  
• “Greek and Roman City and State Cults,” in World History Encyclopedia (ABC CLIO, forthcoming).
  
  
• “The Role of Divination in the Classical World,” in World History Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO, forthcoming).
  
  
• “Special Lifestyles associated with the Mystery Cults,” in World History Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO, forthcoming).
  
  
• “Christian Gospels and Acts as Literature and the Concept of Sacred History,” in World History Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO, forthcoming).
  
  
• Review of Collaborative Learning Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty, by Elizabeth F. Barkley, K. Patricia Ross, and Claire Howell Major. Exchanges: The On-line Journal for Teaching and Learning in the CSU (forthcoming).
  
  
• “Houses of the Holy: Roman and Christian Domestic Piety in the Latin West, 100 600.” Ph.D. diss. Claremont Graduate University, 2005.
  
  
• “To the Genius of Our Benefactor: Patronage and the Domestic Gods in the Later Roman Empire.” Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities 3 (2005).
  
  
• Review of Effective Teaching with Technology in Higher Education: Foundations for Success, by A. W. Bates and Gary Poole. Exchanges: The On-line Journal for Teaching and Learning in the CSU (2004).
  
  
• “Emperor Commodus, 180-192 AD.” De Imperatoribus Romanus: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors (Salve Regina University, 1999).
  
  
• “Quartilla’s Cure: The Mysteries of Priapus in Satyricon 16-26” (Ares Press, 1997).