Areas of Expertise
Modern France, Gender and Sexuality, Cultural history
Education
Ph.D., University of Florida (2006)
M.A., Florida State University (1997)
B.A., Florida State University (1995)
Biography
Awards
2007 University of Florida’s Milbauer Outstanding Dissertation Award in History
2006 University of Florida’s Linda Vance Award in Women’s History
2004 University of Florida’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Travel Grant
Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for Minorities-Honorable Mention
2003 Ruth McQuown CLAS Graduate Research Scholarship
2002 Council for European Studies Pre-Dissertation Fellowship
2001 University of Florida Women’s Studies and Gender Research Curriculum Contest Winner
2000 University of Florida Four-Year Minority Fellowship
Affiliations
American Historical Association
Society for French Historical Studies
Western for French History
Association of Nineteenth-Century Art Historians
Phi Beta Kappa
Publications & Presentations
Articles in Refereed Journals and Book Chapters:
 “The Art of Posing Nude: Models, Moralists and the 1893 Bal des Quat’z-Arts.” French Historial Studies, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Winter 2010): 69-97.
 “The Talleyrand Years: Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord at the Rue Saint-Florentin, 1812-1838,” Concorde (Washington, D.C.: U.S. State Department): 47-58. (2007)
Article in Proceedings:
 “Dressing Down: Nudity in Belle Époque Theatrical Entertainment.” Proceedings of the Western Society for French History (2004)
Article in Encyclopedia:
 “Sexuality-Class, Gender, Sex,” Encyclopedia of Reproductive History. (Greenwood Publishers- Forthcoming).
Book Reviews:
 Aruna d'Souza and Tom McDonough, eds., The Invisible Flaneuse? Gender, Public Space, and Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris. For H-Urban (December 2010)
 Helen Harden Chenut, The Fabric of Gender: Working-Class Culture in Third Republic France. For H-Women (February 2008)
 Lisa Sigel, ed. International Exposure: Perspectives on Modern European Pornography, 1800-2000. For History: Reviews of New Books 34, no. 2 (Winter 2006): 52.
