Biography

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

COMPETITIVE FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
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

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
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

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Cultural, Urban, Gender, and Environmental History in France and francophone Africa