I’m a historian specializing in European history and the history of sexuality. I received my Ph.D. in history from the University of Michigan in 2011 and am an Associate Professor and Chair of History at Loyola University Maryland. I previously worked at the University of Southern Mississippi, where I held a Nina Bell Suggs Endowed Professorship, and at Kenyon College. I am a former President of the Western Society for French History and the former chair of the American Historical Association Committee on LGBTQ Status in the Profession. I also previously served on the boards of the Committee on LGBT History and the Western Society for French History.
I am most recently the co-editor, with Nina Kusher, of Histories of French Sexuality: Enlightenment to the Present (University of Nebraska Press, 2023). My first book, Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris, is also available via Temple University Press and other booksellers.
This website features some of my research, a blog, and teaching resources. Unless otherwise noted, materials may be shared and used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncomercial License.
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