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 of History at Loyola University Maryland, where I am also the current Assistant Director of the Honors Program. I previously worked at the University of Southern Mississippi, where I held a Nina Bell Suggs Endowed Professorship, and at Kenyon College. I currently serve as President of the Western Society for French History. I am the former chair of the American Historical Association Committee on LGBTQ Status in the Profession and 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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