Degree:

Ph.D. Rutgers University, 1996

Specialization:

Modern European History

Research Interests:

Modern European Social and Cultural History, Modern France, History of Religion and Popular Culture, Gender/Women's History

Current Research:

Ethnicity and Masculinity in the French Foreign Legion

Publications:

"Our Lady of Lourdes: Faith and Commerce at a Marian Shrine," Concilium: International Review of Theology, vol. 44, no. 4 (2008): 148-160. (Printed simultaneously in English, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese).

Consuming Visions: Mass Culture and the Lourdes Shrine (Cornell University Press, 2005).

"Selling Lourdes: Pilgrimage, Tourism, and the Mass-Marketing of the Sacred in Nineteenth-Century France," in Being Elsewhere: Tourism, Consumer Culture and Identity in Modern Europe and North America, eds. Shelley Baranowski and Ellen Furlough (University of Michigan Press, 2001).

"Navigating Place and Community in the History of Popular Religion," Review Essay, Journal of Urban History (January, 2001).

Courses Taught:

Undergraduate Courses:
History 102:  Western Civilization
History 291: Junior Colloquium
History 338: Modern France
History 293: Women's Sphere in Past Societies (WOST 256)

Graduate Courses:
History 441: Women's and Gender History: Europe
History 491: Modern Europe, 1789-1870
History 533: Seiminar in Modern European History 

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