I am presently working in two different disciplines including modern dance, the history of cartography, and digital analysis and restoration of maps.


In teaching I am interested in how off-the-shelf computer and board games can be used to teach world history—how and what students learn, and the limits and flexibility of different narrative paths. Additionally I am interested in the way in which food crops and recipes travel around the world in a world history through food course.


My most recent publications appear in three separate areas. The first “Dos Patrias en Un Mismo Corazón” studies the forms of expression in medieval Iberian Arabic love poetry and their continuities with romantic expressions in colonial Mexico. (University of Navarre (Spain)) The second compares the histories of the treaty systems in Canada, New Zealand, and the United States, and how they differ in the structuring contracts with native peoples. (Canadian Journal of Comparative Literature). A third is a technical paper on techniques for digitally restoring damaged parchment and vellum maps that cannot be restored using customary conservation techniques. (IEEE, Digital Libraries)

I also run two websites Latitude: The Art and Science of Fifteenth Century Navigation and American Pentimento a site devoted to information for teaching about Native Americans, First Nations, Maori, and Aboriginal peoples.