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

The Moral Moment: Catholics and the Housing Question in Postwar France

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Urban, Gender, and Intellectual History in France, the francophone Caribbean and Atlantic Africa

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

“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.

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

“What’s was so Funny about Rabbi Jacob?: Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob (1973) between History and Memory,” French Politics, Culture, and Society, forthcoming.

Book Reviews

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

COMPETITIVE FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

2016 NEH Summer 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 2 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

Recreating Elsewhere: Residential Real Estate, Ethnicity, and Immigration in North America and Western Europe, Early Draft Stages

MAJOR WORKING PROJECTS

The Moral Moment: Catholics and the Housing Question in Postwar France Landscapes of Tropical Freedom: Architecture, Citizenship, and Property in the Francophone Caribbean after Slavery Utopian Space: Sexual Liberation, Pornography, and Technology in France, 1974-2015

MINOR WORKING PROJECTS

Arlette Laguiller, Feminism, and the May 1974 National Bank Employee Strike Dieudonné M'bala M'bala and Collective Memory Léopold Sédar Senghor and Colette Hubert French Cosmetic Pharmaceuticals and Blackness in the Caribbean

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 3 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 4 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

2016-Present Director, Honors Program, St. Thomas University 2016-Present Program Director, History, St. Thomas University 2014-Present Phi Alpha Theta Advisor, History, St. Thomas University 2014-Present Mentor, Dual-Enrollment, History, 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 5 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