Books
- The Red Widow: The Scandal that Shook Paris—and the Woman Behind it All (Sourcebooks, forthcoming in September 2022)
- Introduction to Text Analysis: A Coursebook, co-authored with Brandon Walsh (2016)
- Friendship and Politics in Post-Revolutionary France (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2013)
Articles and Book Chapters
- “Scandalous Friendships: The Dangers of Intimacy in the Steinheil Affair of 1908-1909,” Romanic Review, 101, no. 1-4 (2019)
- “The End of Love: Politics, Emotions and Domestic Violence in the Choiseul-Praslin Affair,” Journal of Family History, vol. 42, no. 4 (October 2017)
- “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)
- “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)
Op-Eds
- “Will Technology Change How We Understand Interpersonal Violence? Maybe. Probably Not.” Nursing Clio, October 3, 2019
- “Sherlock Holmes Comes to Paris: True Crime and Private Detection in the Belle Époque,” Nursing Clio, July 11, 2019
- “Why bad behavior gets a pass at elite institutions,” Made by History, Washington Post, October 2, 2018
- With Mikki 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
Digital Humanities Project
In the summers of 2016 and 2017, I worked with two undergraduate research assistants on a text analysis project relating to the newspaper coverage of the Steinheil Affair of 1908-1909.
Post 1: Scandal! Murder! Text Analysis!
Post 2: June 1, 1908 — Crime Stories
Post 3: June 1908 — Class, Crime and Doubt
Post 4: Debuting After Prison: Physical Descriptions of Meg Steinheil During the First Day of the Trial (by Megan Doherty)
Post 5: Meg and the President (by Sam Gibson)
Post 6: November 1908 – Scandal
