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Education
- Ph.D., History, University of California, Berkeley
- M.A., History, University of California, Berkeley
- B.A., History and Art History, Wellesley College
Professional Appointments
- Associate Professor, Department of History, Washington and Lee University, 2014 to the present
- Assistant Professor, Department of History, Washington and Lee University, 2008 – 2014
Publications
Book
- Friendship and Politics in Post-Revolutionary France (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2013)
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- “The End of Love: Politics, Emotions and Domestic Violence in the Choiseul-Praslin Affair,” Journal of Family History (October 2017)
- “Luxe, amour et transactions: La Culture des bijoux dans l’Ancien Régime,” Sociétés et Représentations, no. 38 (Fall 2014)
- “Policing and the Problem of Privacy in Restoration-Era France, 1815-30,” French History 27, no. 1 (January 2013)
- “The Bonds of Concord and the Guardians of Trust: Women, Emotion, and Political Life, 1815-1848,” French Historical Studies 35, no. 3 (Summer 2012)
Chapters in Edited Volumes
- “Scandalous Friendships: The Dangers of Intimacy in the Steinheil Affair of 1908-1909,” Romanic Review (forthcoming)
- “Foucault’s Panopticon—A Model for NSA Surveillance?,” in Privacy and Power: A Transatlantic Dialogue in the Shadow of the NSA-Affair, ed. Russell Miller (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017)
Textbook
- with Brandon Walsh, Introduction to Text Analysis: A Coursebook, 2016
Op-Eds
- “Why bad behavior gets a pass at elite institutions,” Made by History, Washington Post, October 2, 2018
- With Michelle Brock and Molly Michelmore, “Why Universities Should Be on the Front Lines of the Monument Wars,” Made by History, Washington Post, September 6, 2018
- “Why 2018 is awash in conspiracy theories and scandals,” Made by History, Washington Post, June 13, 2018
Book Reviews
- Review of “Misfits” in Fin-de-Siècle France and Italy: Anatomies of Difference by Susan A. Ashley, in H-France Reviews, vol. 18 (April 2018), no. 67
- Review of Choosing Terror: Virtue, Friendship, and Authenticity in the French Revolution, by Marisa Linton, in The Journal of Modern History, 89, no. 4 (December 2017)
- Review of Brotherly Love: Freemasonry and Male Friendship in Enlightenment France, by Kenneth Loiselle, in French History, no. 29 (June 2015)
- Review of Doing Emotions History, Susan Matt and Peter Stearns, eds., in The Canadian Journal of History, 49, no. 3 (Winter 2014)
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