- Ph.D. in History, University of Virginia, August 2004.
Advisor: Sophia Rosenfeld
"Political Convictions: French Deportation Projects in the Age of Revolution, 1791-1854, Ph.D. dissertation.
- Master of Arts in History, University of Massachusettes, Amherst, 1998.
- Bachelor of Arts in History, Westminster College, 1996.
- Pensionnaire étranger, École Normale Supérieure (Paris, France), 2002-03.
- Assistant Professor, Department of History, Mississippi State University, 2007-present.
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Marquette University, 2004-07
- Instructor, Department of History, University of Virginia, 2003
- Instructor, Université de Lyon Lumière II, 1999-2000
- Book Manuscript: Imperial Convictions: Origins of Penal Colonization in Nineteenth-Century France
- "La France equinoxiale ou une espèce de Laponie tropicale: Imagining French Guiana in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries." (Article in progress).
- “Napoleon’s Brides: Marriage and Coronation Ceremonies in 1804” (Article in progress)
- Articles and Book Reviews:
"Robinson Crusoes in Chains: French Deportee Travel Writing, 1795-1840," Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques 2007 33(3): 395-419.
"Forced and Free Colonists: How French Elites Planned to Populate an Overseas Empire in the Age of Revolutions Proceedings and Selected Papers of the Consortium of the Revolutionary Era 2006: 132-141.
"Making Space in the Overseas Empire for the June Insurgents, 1848," Proceedings of the Western Society of French History 30(2003).
- Internet Publications:
List-Editor, H-France
Copy writing and site design for Mosaic: Perspectives in Western Civilization, Houghton-Mifflin and Company.
- Presentations, Lectures, Colloquia
Devil’s Island or Dinner Theatre: Representations of Deportation in the Third Republic” at the annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, New Brunswick, April 2008.
“Imperial Transplants: Deporting Subjects and Citizens around the Overseas Empire, 1800-1848” at the annual meeting of the Consortium of the Revolutionary Era, Huntsville, March 2008.
"Forced and Free Colonists: How French Elites Planned to Populate and Civilize an Overseas Empire, 1763-1848," at the Consortium of the Revolutionary Era, Atlanta, March 4, 2006.
"Robinson Crusoes in Chains: Political Deportees and the Imperial Gaze in Revolutionary France," at the annual conference of the French Colonial Historical Society, Nova Scotia, Canada, June 1, 2005.
"The Impossible Punishment: Political Prisoners and Royal Authority during the Restoration," at the Western Society for French History, Newport Beach, November 1, 2003.
"Conspirators in the Colonies: A Case Study of Three Families Deported to Nuka-Hiva, 1853," at the annual conference of the French Colonial Historical Society, Toulouse, May 16, 2003.
"Convicted Colonists: Making Space in the Empire for the June Insurgents, 1848," at the annual conference of the Western Society for French History, Baltimore, October 2002.
- National Endowment for the Humanities grant for summer seminar at the Newberry Library, 2006.
- Faculty All Star Award, Marquette University Residential Life, 2005.
- Camargo Fellowship, 2004 (declined).
- Bourse from the École Normale Supérieure for one-year in residence, 2002-2003.
- German Marshall Fund Dissertation Research Grant, 2001-2002.
- Bourse Chateaubriand (declined)
- Fulbright Fellowship (declined)
- President s Fellowship, University of Virginia
Modern France
History of the French Revolution
Crime and Punishment in 18th and 19th-century Europe
History of European Imperialism
Empire and Identity
History of Consumer Culture
European Rural and Urban Histories
Western Civiliation
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