EDUCATION

Ph.D. 2006-2011 History University of North Carolina

M.A. 2004-2006 History University of North Carolina

B.A. 1999-2003 History University of Vermont

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION

Parisian Suburbia and the Politics of Housing, 1939-1975

Committee: Donald Reid, Lloyd Kramer, Konrad Jarausch, Jay Smith, Karen Hagemann

BOOK PROPOSAL

Moral Cities: Catholics, Community, and Urban Development in Postwar France

RESEARCH INTERESTS

European and Caribbean Urban, Intellectual, and Gender History

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2014- Assistant Professor History St. Thomas University

2011-2014 Visiting Lecturer History University of North Carolina/NCSSM

2004-2007 Teaching Fellow History University of North Carolina

2003-2004 Instructor History Lycée René Cassin

PUBLICATIONS

Articles

“What was so Funny about Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob (1973)? A Comedic Film between History and Memory,” French Politics, Culture, and Society, forthcoming, (Fall 2017).

“Jules Vallès and Séverine: French Political Culture and a Late-Nineteenth Century Subversive Cross-Sex Friendship,” Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques, 42.2 (Summer 2016), pp. 52-74.

“The Problem that Had a Name: French High-Rise Developments and the Fantasy of a Suburban Homemaker Pathology, 1954–73,” Gender & History, 28.1 (April 2016), pp. 179–200.

“All Women Are Exploited: Gender, Banking, and France’s First Woman Presidential Candidate,” submitted for review.

“The New Urban History of Paris?” Historiographical Essay, due November 2017 to The Journal of Urban History

Book Reviews

Review of Nicole C. Rudolph, At Home in Postwar France (2015), H-France Review, 16.81 (June 2016).

Review of Hubert Bonin, 50 ans d’affacturage en France: Des pionniers et leaders aux groups bancaires (2016), forthcoming, H-France Review.

Review of Laurent Binet, The Seventh Function of Language (2015), forthcoming, French Fiction and Film.

COMPETITIVE FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

2017 Council of Independent Colleges/Kress Foundation Seminar, Yale Center for British Art, Yale University

2016 NEH Institute Fellow, “Arts of Survival: Recasting Lives in African Cities,” Institute for Advanced Studies, Indiana University: Bloomington

2015-2016 Excellence in Academic Research Award, St. Thomas University

2010-2011 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies Early Career Fellowship

2009-2010 Jeanne Marandon Fellowship, Société des Professeurs français et francophones d’Amérique

2009-2010 Doris G. Quinn Foundation Dissertation Fellowship

2009 Amos E. Simpson Award, Southern Historical Association

2007-2008 Chateaubriand Fellowship, Center for Social History of the 20th Century, University of Paris

2007-2008 Dissertation Research Fellowship, Center for European Studies, University of North Carolina

2006-2007 Andrew W. Mellon Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, Council for European Studies, Columbia University

2006 John L. Snell Memorial Award, Southern Historical Association

2003 Outstanding Graduating Senior in European Studies Award, University of Vermont

2003 Ruth Boelsen Baird Award for Excellence in History, University of Vermont

EDITED VOLUMES

Post-Catholic Cities: Preservation, Heritage, and Memory Politics, Early Draft Stages

MAJOR WORKING PROJECTS

French Rum: Distillers, Taste, and Terroir since the Second World War

Sunscreen Empires: Cosmeceuticals, Pharmaceuticals, and Health Policy

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

January 2017, “History at Minority-Serving Institutions: Strategies and Opportunities,” American Historical Association Committee on Minority Historians, American Historical Association Annual Conference, Denver, CO

March 2016, “’Employée de banque’: Arlette Laguiller, Post-68’ Feminism, and the 1974 French Bank Strikes,” Legacies of ’68, Society for French Historical Studies Annual Conference, Nashville, TN

January 2016, “Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place and Atlantic World History,” Undergraduate Teaching Workshop, American Historical Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA

February 2015, “Dieudonné M'bala M'bala: the Shoah, Postcolonial Memory, and Stand-Up Comedy,” Florida Historians Annual Conference, Lakeland, FL

January 2015, “Bridging the High School/College Divide: Conversations toward Creating a Comprehensive History Pedagogy,” Roundtable, American Historical Association Annual Conference, New York City, NY

October 2014, “Together in the Dark: Neo-Liberalism, Pornographic Cinemas, and Technologies of Sexual Poverty/Liberation in 1970s Paris,” Humanities and Technology Annual Conference, Miami, FL

June 2014, “The Social and Spatial Aims of French Homeownership,” The American Dream at Home and Abroad: Homeownership in the United States and France since 1945, Policy History Conference, Columbus, OH

January 2014, “Why (some) Americans fought for Nelson Mandela’s Freedom,” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Observance, Durham, NC

April 2013, “Recreating North Africa in a Grand Ensemble,” Local Perspectives on Rights, Welfare, and Diversity in Migrant Housing Projects, Society of French Historical Studies Annual Conference, Cambridge, MA

March 2012 “We’re in This Together: A Conversation with High School Teachers about Teaching History,” North Carolina Teachers’ Workshop Series, Office of Admissions, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

March 2012 “The Right to What City: French Familial Housing between Liberation and Liberalization,” The Single-Family Home in France, Society of French Historical Studies Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA

January 2012 “The Multicultural Politics of French Comedic Cinema,” French Cultural Studies Seminar, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

January 2012 “What does the Right to the City look like?,” History Research Colloquium, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

February 2011 “France’s Concrete Frontier,” French Cultural Studies Seminar, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

October 2010 “From Pariah to Patrimony: Memory, History, and Preservation in the Parisian Grand Ensemble of Sarcelles,” Reflections on the Banlieues: Past and Present, Western Society for French History Conference, Lafayette, LA

November 2009 “What’s So Funny About Rabbi Jacob? Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob (1973) and the Politics of French Comedic Cinema,” Film, History, and the Politics of Perception, Southern Historical Society Annual Conference, Louisville, KY

March 2009 “The Problem that had a Name: Desperate Housewives and Mental Malady in Parisian Grands Ensembles, 1962-1976,” Panel Organizer, Squatters, Real Estate Agents, and Housewives: New Perspectives on Housing in France, Society of French Historical Studies Annual Conference, St. Louis, MI

April 2008 “A Gendered History of Parisian Public Housing Estates,” Chateaubriand Workshop, The University of Chicago Center, Paris, France

September 2007 “What does a Grand Ensemble mean to Frenchmen?: Mapping Sarcelles at the National and Local Level, 1954-1965,” Paris-Banlieues, Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France Conference, Reading, United Kingdom

May 2007 “Applying to Graduate School in History,” Undergraduate Information Session, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

May 2007 “Conveying and Recovering a Gendered Social Type: Jules Vallès, Heterophilia, and May ‘68,” Gendered Framings of Twentieth-Century Activism, Gender, Experience, and Memory, 18th-20th Centuries: A Transatlantic Workshop, Chapel Hill, NC

SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

2017-2018 Steering Sub-Committee Member, Branding and Enrollment Management, Barry University/St. Thomas University Strategic Merger

2016-Present Director, Honors Program, St. Thomas University

2016-Present Director, History, St. Thomas University

2016-Present Advisor, History Club, St. Thomas University

2014-Present Advisor, Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society, St. Thomas University

2014-Present Director of History Dual-Enrollment, St. Thomas University/Archdiocese of Miami

2015-2016 Secretary, Faculty Forum, St. Thomas University

2015-2016 Taskforce Leader, Honors Program, St. Thomas University

2013 Academic Goals and Outcomes Committee, History, NCSSM

2013 Curriculum Development, African Studies Program, NCSSM

2012-2014 Advanced Placement Reader, World History

2011-2012 Chancellor’s Childcare Advisory Committee, University of North Carolina

2010-2011 Graduate and Professional Student Representative, Student Congress, University of North Carolina

2008-2009 Consultant, Translation Services, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami

2006-2007 Secretary, Carolina French Studies Seminar, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

2006 Conference Co-organizer, “Family, Work, and Welfare in Past and Present,” University of North Carolina

2005-2007 Bi-Annual Workshop Co-organizer, “Gender, Politics, and Culture in Europe and Beyond,” The University of North Carolina

2005-2007 Founding Member, The UNC Working Group in Gender History

LANGUAGES

French: excellent knowledge

German: good working knowledge

Spanish: basic knowledge

Haitian Kreyòl: basic knowledge

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

American Historical Association

French Historical Studies

Western Society for French History

Urban History Association

European Section of the Southern Historical Association

CITIZENSHIP

United States of America

Republic of Ireland