Education
- BA in Economics and Religious Studies from Clemson University
- MAR in History of Christianity from Yale Divinity School
- MA in History from Yale University
- MPhil in History from Yale University
- Ph.D. in History from Yale University
Publications
2025
“Philip Melanchthon’s Forgotten Protestant Civic Humanism” in Classical Reformations, ed. Lucy Nicholas and Micha Lazarus (Brepols), Forthcoming.
“Isocrates and the Persian Turks: Ottoman Invasions and Confessional Conflict in the Classical Scholarship of Hieronymus Wolf (1516-1580).” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 88.
2024
“Mare Tutum: Thucydides, King Minos, and the Concept of the ‘Secure Sea’ in Seventeenth-Century Maritime Law.” Grotiana 45.1: 1-31.
“Sinai and the Areopagus: Philip Melanchthon, Natural Law, and the Beginnings of Athenian Legal History in the Shadow of the Schmalkaldic War.” Journal of the History of Ideas 85.4: 713-48.
“On Ecclesiastical Discipline: A 1626 Transylvanian Unitarian Confession.” Translation of “De disciplina ecclesiastica Radeciana.” In Antitrinitarianism and Unitarianism in the Early Modern World ed. Kazimierz Bem and Bruce Gordon. London: Palgrave MacMillan.
2022
“Acquisitive Prescription in Early Modern International Law.” Journal of the History of International Law 24.3: 1-31.
“Philip Melanchthon’s Humanist Politics: Greek Scholarship in a Time of Confessional Crisis.” Reformation and Renaissance Review 24.1: 23-43.
2021
“Calvin and Equity” in The Oxford Handbook of Calvin and Calvinism, ed. Bruce Gordon and Carl Trueman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
2016
White, Benjamin L. and Alexander Batson. “Paul’s Collection through the Saints: Romans 15:31 in Papyrus 46.” Journal for the Study of Paul and his Letters 6, no. 1: 99-114.
Courses
Fall 2026
- CIV 303J Origins of American Institutions
Spring 2026
- CIV 303J Origins of American Institutions
Spring 2025
- HIS 343/RS 344/CTI 355R The Age of Reformation
Fall 2024
- UGS 302 Democracy: The History of an Idea
