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I am a cultural and intellectual historian who specializes in modern French history, Gender & Sexuality, Feminist & Queer Theory and Studies, Visual & Literary Studies, Jewish history, and histories of empire. I received a BA in Modern History from Oxford University, MA in Women’s & Gender History from Royal Holloway – London University, and a PhD in Modern History from Rutgers University, after studying sociology at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris). I have published The Aesthetics of Hate (Stanford, 2013), Simone de Beauvoir (Oxford, 2016), an edited collection Le genre carcéral (EMSHA, 2022), and numerous journal articles. I have received two NEH fellowships and other research and teaching awards and prizes.
I am a specialist in the history of the modern French empire, with a research focus on the colonial and postcolonial Maghreb and the history of religion. I received BA degrees in History, English, and French from the University of Denver (2003) and a PhD in History from Rutgers University (2011). I was an award-winning, tenured professor at the University of South Florida for over a decade. I have published two peer-reviewed scholarly books on the history of France and its empire with academic presses: Decolonizing Christianity: Religion and the End of Empire in France and Algeria (Cambridge, 2016) and Modern France and the World (Routledge, 2023) as well as numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and public-facing content related to France and its empire.
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