ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Associate Professor of History, University of Redlands (2021-present)
Assistant Professor of History, University of Redlands (2017-2021)
Assistant Professor of History, Marymount University (2015-2017)
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, University of Mississippi (2014-2015)
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, University of San Francisco (2013-2014)
EDUCATION
University of California, Davis
Ph.D. in History, June 2012
Dissertation: “Isolating Madness: Doctors, Families, and the Gendering of Psychiatric Authority in Nineteenth-Century France.”
Director: Ted Margadant
University of California, Santa Cruz
B.A. in History, June 2003 (Highest Honors)
Area of Concentration: World History
PUBLICATIONS
Book
Institutionalizing Gender: Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020).
Articles
“Married to the ‘Living Dead’: Madness as a Cause for Divorce in Late Nineteenth-Century France,” Contemporary French Civilization, Vol. 40, No. 3 (2015). * Lawrence R. Schehr Memorial Award Winning Essay
"Women Working 'Amidst the Mad': Domesticity as Psychiatric Treatment in Nineteenth-Century Paris," French Historical Studies, Vol. 38, No. 1 (February 2015).
Book Chapter
“Sex, Secrets, and Medicine in Late Nineteenth-Century France,” Histories of French Sexuality from the Enlightenment to the Present edited by Nina Kushner and Andrew Israel Ross (University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming 2023).
Blog Posts
"#FreeBritney: Madness, Money, and Family Conflict in Historical Perspective," on the Cornell Press Blog (December 2020).
“The Baroness: Imagining Madness, Marriage, and Murder in Nineteenth-Century Paris,” on Notches: (re)marks on the history of sexuality (April 2017).
Book reviews
Review of “Misfits” in Fin-de-Siècle France and Italy: Anatomies of Difference by Susan A. Ashley for H-Disability, H-Net Reviews (January, 2019).
Review of Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris by Asti Hustvedt for The Historian, Vol. 74, No. 2 (2012).
SELECT TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Introductory Courses
Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800
Modern Europe, 1750-present
World History since 1450
Upper-Level Courses
Disability History
20th-Century Europe on Film
Europe since World War II
Seminars
Everyday Life in Nazi Germany (First-Year Seminar)
France and the World, 1750-present
Gender and Sexuality in Modern Europe
The History of Madness
SELECT AWARDS AND FUNDING
Outstanding Faculty Research Award, University of Redlands 2021
Neal K. Pahia Advisor of the Year Award, Associated Students of the University of Redlands 2021
Graves Award in the Humanities, Pomona College (under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies) 2020
Faculty Research Grant, University of Redlands 2018, 2019
IES Abroad Research Grant (Paris, France) 2018
Lawrence R. Schehr Memorial Award from the editors of Contemporary French Civilization
Prize for best conference paper submitted by a junior colleague in contemporary French civilization and cultural studies 2014
Edward T. Gargan Prize from the Western Society for French History
Prize for best paper given by a graduate student at the Annual Meeting of WSFH 2012
Marjorie M. Farrar Memorial Award from the Society for French Historical Studies
Award supporting an “outstanding dissertation in progress” in French history 2011
Research Travel Award
Consortium for Women and Research, University of California, Davis 2010
Ambassadorial Scholar, Rotary International
Dissertation Research Support in Paris, France 2008-2009
Pre-dissertation Research Grant
Institute for German and European Studies, University of California, Berkeley 2007
Block Grant Support
Department of History, University of California, Davis 2007, 2009, 2010
Reed-Smith Research Travel Funds
Department of History, University of California, Davis 2005, 2006, 2007
Award for Conference Travel
Graduate Student Association, University of California, Davis 2007, 2010
Full Scholarship for undergraduate degree
Haan Foundation, University of California, Santa Cruz 1999-2003
PRESENTATIONS
Invited Talks and Workshops
“Mad About Paris: Insanity and the Nineteenth-Century City,” presented at the IES Paris Center in June, 2018 (Paris, France).
“Institutionalizing Gender: Men, Women, and the Asylum in Post-Revolutionary France,” chapter work-shopped at the 3rd Annual Weider History Conference: Gender and Sexuality in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century France, April 2017 (Tallahassee, FL).
Conferences
"Hiding Syphilis in Nineteenth-Century France," presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in January 2020 (New York, New York).
“Gender as 'Cure' in the Post-Revolutionary Asylum,” presented at The Western Society for French History in October 2019 (Bozeman, Montana).
“Sex, Secrets, and Medicine in Late Nineteenth-Century France” presented at The Western Society for French History in November 2018 (Portland, Maine).
“Crazy in Love: Debating Marriage and Mental Illness in Nineteenth-Century France,” presented at the American Association for the History of Medicine in May 2018 (Los Angeles, California).
“Teaching Gender and Sexuality in French History,” round table participant (Teaching Andre Gide’s The Immoralist) at the Western Society for French History in November 2017 (Reno, Nevada).
“Sexual Revolution? Historiographic ‘Old Regimes’ and the History of Sexuality,” round table participant (Disability History and the History of Sexuality) at the Western Society for French History in November 2016 (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).
“Family (Mis)Fortunes: Inheritance and the Insane Asylum in Balzac’s France,” presented at the Society for French Historical Studies in March, 2016 (Nashville, TN).
“Family Life without the Family: Private Asylum Psychiatry in Nineteenth-Century France,” presented at Alternative Psychiatric Narratives in May 2014 (Birkbeck, University of London).
“À la folie, pas du tout: Madness, Marriage, and Divorce in Late Nineteenth-Century France,” presented at the Society for French Historical Studies in April, 2014 (Montreal, Quebec).
“Private Practice: Women and the Family Asylum in Nineteenth-Century France,” presented at the History of Science Society in November 2013 (Boston, MA).
"Reconsidering the Family and Reconfiguring the Asylum in Fin-de-Siècle France," presented at the Society for French Historical Studies in April, 2013 (Boston, MA).
"Mental Patients in Motion in Fin-de-Siècle France," presented at the 34th Annual Conference of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association in March, 2013 (Fresno, CA).
"Domesticity, Disability, and the Uses of Feminine Expertise in the Private Asylums of Nineteenth-Century Paris," presented at the Society for French Historical Studies in March, 2012 (Los Angeles, CA).
"Scandalous Asylum Internments and Familial Conflict in Nineteenth-Century France," presented at the 126th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in January 2012 (Chicago, IL).
“Psychiatric Authority and the Uses of Honor in Post-Revolutionary France,” presented at the Western Society for French History in November, 2011 (Portland, OR). *Winner of the Edward T. Gargan Prize
“Coming of Age in the ‘Milieu of Madness’: Private Asylums and Women’s Authority in Nineteenth-Century Paris,” presented at the History of Psychiatry and Psychology Postgraduate Conference in March, 2011 (The Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London).
“French Psychiatry Under Siege: Doctors, Patients, and the Events of 1870-1871,” presented at the Western Society for French History in October, 2010 (Lafayette, LA).
“Healing ‘Napoleon’s Sons’: Paternalism and Psychiatric Treatment in Nineteenth-Century France,” lunch hour presentation for the Cross-Cultural Women and Gender History Group in April 2010 (Davis, CA).
“New Maids, Modern Women: The Decline of Domestic Service and the Transformation of Bourgeois Values in Interwar France,” presented at the Fifty-third Annual Meeting for the Society of French Historical Studies in March, 2007 (Houston, TX).
SELECT SERVICE
University of Redlands
Faculty Advisor, DEFIANT (disabled students and allies club) 2020-present
Selection Committee, ALURA student research award 2019
Search Committee Member, Associate Provost of Armacost Library 2018-2019
Advisory Committee Member; Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies 2018-present
Phi Alpha Theta Faculty Advisor 2018-present
Curriculum Committee Member, School of Education 2018
Service to the profession
Event Co-Organizer with the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, "Rethinking Mentoring in French History in 2021" (online panel and discussion, Western Society for French History) March 2021
Mentoring Program Director, Western Society for French History 2020-present
Governing Council Member, Western Society for French History 2017- 2020
Western Society for French History Awards Committee 2017
Publication Editor, H-France Review 2016-2017
Peer reviewer, Medical History 2014-present
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Images and Texts in Medical History: A Workshop in Methods, Tools, and Data from the Digital Humanities National Library of Medicine (Bethesda, MD) 2016
LANGUAGES
French (speaking, reading, writing); Spanish (reading)
Associate Professor of History, University of Redlands (2021-present)
Assistant Professor of History, University of Redlands (2017-2021)
Assistant Professor of History, Marymount University (2015-2017)
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, University of Mississippi (2014-2015)
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, University of San Francisco (2013-2014)
EDUCATION
University of California, Davis
Ph.D. in History, June 2012
Dissertation: “Isolating Madness: Doctors, Families, and the Gendering of Psychiatric Authority in Nineteenth-Century France.”
Director: Ted Margadant
University of California, Santa Cruz
B.A. in History, June 2003 (Highest Honors)
Area of Concentration: World History
PUBLICATIONS
Book
Institutionalizing Gender: Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020).
Articles
“Married to the ‘Living Dead’: Madness as a Cause for Divorce in Late Nineteenth-Century France,” Contemporary French Civilization, Vol. 40, No. 3 (2015). * Lawrence R. Schehr Memorial Award Winning Essay
"Women Working 'Amidst the Mad': Domesticity as Psychiatric Treatment in Nineteenth-Century Paris," French Historical Studies, Vol. 38, No. 1 (February 2015).
Book Chapter
“Sex, Secrets, and Medicine in Late Nineteenth-Century France,” Histories of French Sexuality from the Enlightenment to the Present edited by Nina Kushner and Andrew Israel Ross (University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming 2023).
Blog Posts
"#FreeBritney: Madness, Money, and Family Conflict in Historical Perspective," on the Cornell Press Blog (December 2020).
“The Baroness: Imagining Madness, Marriage, and Murder in Nineteenth-Century Paris,” on Notches: (re)marks on the history of sexuality (April 2017).
Book reviews
Review of “Misfits” in Fin-de-Siècle France and Italy: Anatomies of Difference by Susan A. Ashley for H-Disability, H-Net Reviews (January, 2019).
Review of Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris by Asti Hustvedt for The Historian, Vol. 74, No. 2 (2012).
SELECT TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Introductory Courses
Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800
Modern Europe, 1750-present
World History since 1450
Upper-Level Courses
Disability History
20th-Century Europe on Film
Europe since World War II
Seminars
Everyday Life in Nazi Germany (First-Year Seminar)
France and the World, 1750-present
Gender and Sexuality in Modern Europe
The History of Madness
SELECT AWARDS AND FUNDING
Outstanding Faculty Research Award, University of Redlands 2021
Neal K. Pahia Advisor of the Year Award, Associated Students of the University of Redlands 2021
Graves Award in the Humanities, Pomona College (under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies) 2020
Faculty Research Grant, University of Redlands 2018, 2019
IES Abroad Research Grant (Paris, France) 2018
Lawrence R. Schehr Memorial Award from the editors of Contemporary French Civilization
Prize for best conference paper submitted by a junior colleague in contemporary French civilization and cultural studies 2014
Edward T. Gargan Prize from the Western Society for French History
Prize for best paper given by a graduate student at the Annual Meeting of WSFH 2012
Marjorie M. Farrar Memorial Award from the Society for French Historical Studies
Award supporting an “outstanding dissertation in progress” in French history 2011
Research Travel Award
Consortium for Women and Research, University of California, Davis 2010
Ambassadorial Scholar, Rotary International
Dissertation Research Support in Paris, France 2008-2009
Pre-dissertation Research Grant
Institute for German and European Studies, University of California, Berkeley 2007
Block Grant Support
Department of History, University of California, Davis 2007, 2009, 2010
Reed-Smith Research Travel Funds
Department of History, University of California, Davis 2005, 2006, 2007
Award for Conference Travel
Graduate Student Association, University of California, Davis 2007, 2010
Full Scholarship for undergraduate degree
Haan Foundation, University of California, Santa Cruz 1999-2003
PRESENTATIONS
Invited Talks and Workshops
“Mad About Paris: Insanity and the Nineteenth-Century City,” presented at the IES Paris Center in June, 2018 (Paris, France).
“Institutionalizing Gender: Men, Women, and the Asylum in Post-Revolutionary France,” chapter work-shopped at the 3rd Annual Weider History Conference: Gender and Sexuality in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century France, April 2017 (Tallahassee, FL).
Conferences
"Hiding Syphilis in Nineteenth-Century France," presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in January 2020 (New York, New York).
“Gender as 'Cure' in the Post-Revolutionary Asylum,” presented at The Western Society for French History in October 2019 (Bozeman, Montana).
“Sex, Secrets, and Medicine in Late Nineteenth-Century France” presented at The Western Society for French History in November 2018 (Portland, Maine).
“Crazy in Love: Debating Marriage and Mental Illness in Nineteenth-Century France,” presented at the American Association for the History of Medicine in May 2018 (Los Angeles, California).
“Teaching Gender and Sexuality in French History,” round table participant (Teaching Andre Gide’s The Immoralist) at the Western Society for French History in November 2017 (Reno, Nevada).
“Sexual Revolution? Historiographic ‘Old Regimes’ and the History of Sexuality,” round table participant (Disability History and the History of Sexuality) at the Western Society for French History in November 2016 (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).
“Family (Mis)Fortunes: Inheritance and the Insane Asylum in Balzac’s France,” presented at the Society for French Historical Studies in March, 2016 (Nashville, TN).
“Family Life without the Family: Private Asylum Psychiatry in Nineteenth-Century France,” presented at Alternative Psychiatric Narratives in May 2014 (Birkbeck, University of London).
“À la folie, pas du tout: Madness, Marriage, and Divorce in Late Nineteenth-Century France,” presented at the Society for French Historical Studies in April, 2014 (Montreal, Quebec).
“Private Practice: Women and the Family Asylum in Nineteenth-Century France,” presented at the History of Science Society in November 2013 (Boston, MA).
"Reconsidering the Family and Reconfiguring the Asylum in Fin-de-Siècle France," presented at the Society for French Historical Studies in April, 2013 (Boston, MA).
"Mental Patients in Motion in Fin-de-Siècle France," presented at the 34th Annual Conference of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association in March, 2013 (Fresno, CA).
"Domesticity, Disability, and the Uses of Feminine Expertise in the Private Asylums of Nineteenth-Century Paris," presented at the Society for French Historical Studies in March, 2012 (Los Angeles, CA).
"Scandalous Asylum Internments and Familial Conflict in Nineteenth-Century France," presented at the 126th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in January 2012 (Chicago, IL).
“Psychiatric Authority and the Uses of Honor in Post-Revolutionary France,” presented at the Western Society for French History in November, 2011 (Portland, OR). *Winner of the Edward T. Gargan Prize
“Coming of Age in the ‘Milieu of Madness’: Private Asylums and Women’s Authority in Nineteenth-Century Paris,” presented at the History of Psychiatry and Psychology Postgraduate Conference in March, 2011 (The Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London).
“French Psychiatry Under Siege: Doctors, Patients, and the Events of 1870-1871,” presented at the Western Society for French History in October, 2010 (Lafayette, LA).
“Healing ‘Napoleon’s Sons’: Paternalism and Psychiatric Treatment in Nineteenth-Century France,” lunch hour presentation for the Cross-Cultural Women and Gender History Group in April 2010 (Davis, CA).
“New Maids, Modern Women: The Decline of Domestic Service and the Transformation of Bourgeois Values in Interwar France,” presented at the Fifty-third Annual Meeting for the Society of French Historical Studies in March, 2007 (Houston, TX).
SELECT SERVICE
University of Redlands
Faculty Advisor, DEFIANT (disabled students and allies club) 2020-present
Selection Committee, ALURA student research award 2019
Search Committee Member, Associate Provost of Armacost Library 2018-2019
Advisory Committee Member; Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies 2018-present
Phi Alpha Theta Faculty Advisor 2018-present
Curriculum Committee Member, School of Education 2018
Service to the profession
Event Co-Organizer with the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, "Rethinking Mentoring in French History in 2021" (online panel and discussion, Western Society for French History) March 2021
Mentoring Program Director, Western Society for French History 2020-present
Governing Council Member, Western Society for French History 2017- 2020
Western Society for French History Awards Committee 2017
Publication Editor, H-France Review 2016-2017
Peer reviewer, Medical History 2014-present
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Images and Texts in Medical History: A Workshop in Methods, Tools, and Data from the Digital Humanities National Library of Medicine (Bethesda, MD) 2016
LANGUAGES
French (speaking, reading, writing); Spanish (reading)
