Research
Research themes
- History of the Atlantic World, 17th-18th centuries
- France in America
- The French and American Revolutions
- Urban history, 17th-18th centuries
Current Project
- From September 2019, research sabbatical with the CNRS, Section in Early Modern and Modern History.
- Book project : “Paris is the World.” Paris as Rome, Paris as Babylon, the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. (Projet délégation CNRS, 2019-)
- Articles : Economic and political relations between the American and French Revolutions, Franco-North American commerce, and the French consular corps in North America, 18th century.
- The social, urban, and architectural history of Paris.
Research Supervision
- France in America, 1600-1850
- The Age of Revolution, 1776-1815
- Urban, socio-economic, intellectual history
- The intellectual history of political economy
- Pre-industrial history of labor and capital in Western Europe
Bio
Education
- 1993: Ph.D., History. Columbia University, (NY): The Builders of Paris from the Old Regime to the Revolution.
- 2007: Habilitation à diriger des recherches (HdR), Université Paris-Diderot, Ideas and Policies in the French Atlantic Eighteenth Century
Academic Positions
- 1989-1993: Lecturer, Columbia University (NY).
- 1993-2009, Assistant and Associate Professor, Université Paris-8
- 2009-present, Professor, Université Paris-Diderot
Selected International Nominations
- 2008 : Visiting Scholar, International Center for Jefferson Studies, Monticello, Charlottesville Virginia.
- 2014: Visiting Scholar, University of Toronto, Département d’Histoire.
- 2016 : Neubauer Fellow, University of Chicago, Département d’Histoire.
- 2018. Visiting Professor, University of Melbourne, Faculté d’Histoire et Philosophie (Australie).
Administrative Responsibilities
- 2016-2018, President EEASA (European Early American Studies Association)
- 2012-2019, President REDEHJA (Réseau pour le développement européen de l’histoire de la jeune Amérique)
- 2012-2017, Director of Research Group, Enlightenment and Modernity, LARCA (Laboratoire de recherches sur les cultures anglophones),
- 2012-2015, Director of M1-Research, UFR Etudes anglophones.
- 2011-2019, Elected member, Administration of the UFR Études anglophones, Université Paris Diderot.
- 2011-2019 Nominated and elected member, Research Group (UMR 8225) LARCA
Articles
- « Quand le bâtiment va, tout va? Réflexions sur les usages historiques du chantier de construction », in Corinne Maitte, Didier Terrier, eds, Les temps du travail. Normes, pratiques, évolutions (xive-xixe siècles) Presses universitaires de Rennes, Rennes, 2015.
- “Recycling the City: Paris, 1760s-1800” in The Afterlife of Used Things: Recycling in the 18th century. Ariane Fénetaux, Amélie Junqua, Sophie Vasset, editors, London : Routledge 2014.
- “The Political Economy of the FrenchAmerican Debt Debate: The Ideological Uses of Atlantic Commerce, 1787 to 1800.” The William and Mary Quarterly 63, no. 3 (2006).
- Editor: “The French Caribbean Before 1800,” French History (Oxford University Press), 2011.
- Editor, “New Perspectives on the Atlantic,” History of European Ideas (Elsevier), 2008.
