Education
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
PhD in early modern European history, 2002
AM history, 1997
Orals fields: early modern French, Spanish,
Mediterranean and Jewish history
Dissertation: "Back from Barbary: Captivity,
Redemption and French Identity in the 17th-
and 18th-Century Mediterranean," supervised
by Keith Michael Baker (chair), Paula Findlen,
Aron Rodrigue, Peter Sahlins
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 1988-1990;
1991-1993
AB history, summa cum laude with certificate in
European cultural studies, 1993
Thesis topic: "Mémoires and Memory:
Writing the History of the Jews of Bayonne in
the 18th Century"
Publications
"Barbary Captivity and the French Idea of
Freedom," French Historical Studies
(forthcoming 2005).
"Le dernier esclave français,"
in L'héritage de la colonisation et
de la décolonisation, eds. Patrick
Weil and Stéphane Dufoix (Paris: Presses
universitaires de la France, forthcoming).
"Humble Petitioners and Able Contractors:
French Women as Intermediaries in the Redemption
of Captives" in Négociations et
transferts. Les intermédiaires dans l'échange
et le rachat des captifs en Méditerranée,
(XVI-XVII siècles), eds. Wolfgang Kaiser
and Brigitte Marin (Rome: Ecole française
de Rome, forthcoming).
"Les Français enchaînés:
Lettres de captifs des pirates barbaresques aux
17e et 18e siècles," in Les Tyrans
de la Mer: pirates, corsaires et flibustiers.
Actes du 13e colloque du Centre de Recherche sur
la Littérature des Voyages (CRLV),
eds. Sophie Linon-Chipon and Sylvie Requemora
(Paris: Presses de l'Université de Paris
Sorbonne, 2002). (Visit www.crlv.org
for recording of paper, delivered in La Napoule,
25 May 2000).
"Cervantes" and "Barbary Wars,"
in Prisoners of War and Internment: A Dictionary
(Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000).
"Commerce, Conversion and French Religious
Identity in the Early-Modern Mediterranean,"
in The Adventure of Religious Pluralism in
Early Modern France, eds. Keith Cameron, Mark
Greengrass and Penny Roberts (Berne: Peter Lang,
2000), 275-288.
"From Barbary to France: Processions of
Redemption and Early-Modern Cultural Identity,"
in La liberazione dei 'captivi' tra Christianità
e Islam. Oltre la crociata e il gihad tolleranza
e servizi umanitario (Rome, 16-19 September 1998),
ed. Giulio Cipollone (Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2000),
789-805.
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Honors and Awards
Library of Congress Fellowship in International
Studies, ACLS, New York, NY, 2004-2005
Kluge Postdoctoral Fellowship, Library of Congress,
Washington, DC, Summer 2004, Summer 2005
University Center for Innovation in Teaching
and Education Fellowship, CWRU, fall 2003
W.P. Jones Presidential Faculty Development Fund,
CWRU, summer, 2003
Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France, September-December
2001
David Harris Fund Dissertation Write Up Grant,
History Department, Stanford, CA, 2001-2002
Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellowship, Stanford
Humanities Center, Stanford, CA, 2000-2001
Richard C. Maguire Scholarship, Rock Island Arsenal
Historical Society, Rock Island, IL, 2000-2001
AW Mellon Foundation Dissertation Award, History
Department, Stanford, CA, 1999-2000
Bourse Chateaubriand, Government of France, Paris,
1998-1999
Lurcy Fellowship, New York, NY, 1998-1999
US Fulbright Students Program (declined), Washington,
DC, 1998-1999
Graduate Research Opportunities Fund, Office
of the Dean, Stanford, CA, 1997
Mellon Summer Travel/Research Stipend, Center
for European Studies, Stanford, CA, 1996
Newhouse Foundation Summer Grant, Program for
Jewish Studies, Stanford, CA, 1996, 1997
Kratter Fund Summer Grant, History Department,
Stanford, CA, 1996
Frieda Ahellas Estate Fund Summer Grant, Program
for Jewish Studies, Stanford, CA, 1996
Raoul Wallenberg Scholarship, Jerusalem, 1994-1995
Amy Adina Schulman Memorial Fund, Princeton,
NJ, 1994-1995
Samuel Warshauer Memorial Fund, New York, NY,
1994-1995
Classes of 1917 and 1937 Summer Research Award,
Princeton, NJ, 1992
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Conference Papers
"Mediterranean Captivity and the Language
of Slavery in Early Modern France," paper
presented at the Society for French Historical
Studies Annual Conference, Paris, 18 June 2004.
Chair for panel, "The Cleric as Catalyst:
Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Clergy and
Their Place in Early Modern Society," Ohio
Academy of History Conference, Canton, OH, 26
April 2003.
"Pierre Dumont: The Last French Slave,"
paper presented at "The Legacies of Colonization
and Decolonization on the Integration of Migrants
in Europe and the Americas" conference, Centre
d'Histoire Sociale du 20ème siècle,
Université de Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne,
Paris, 22-23 June 2001.
"Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century French
Narratives of Barbary Captivity," paper presented
at the American Historical Association Annual
Meeting, Boston, MA, 5 January 2001.
"Buying Back Slaves: French Captives in
Seventeenth-Century Marseille," paper presented
at the Society for French Historical Studies Annual
Conference, Scottsdale, AZ, 1 April 2000.
"Letters from Barbary: French Captive Correspondence
from North Africa," paper presented at the
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 14 April 2000.
"Tales of Captivity and Voyages of Redemption:
Commerce and Christianity in Early Modern France,"
paper presented at the American Historical Association
Pacific Branch Conference, San Diego, CA, 7 August
1998.
"The Urgency of Nostalgia: Rabbi Ernest
Ginsburger and the Jews of Bayonne in the 18th
Century," paper presented at "Past Abuses:
Memory, Nostalgia and Oblivion," Graduate
Student Conference, Stanford University, 23 February
1996.
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Invited Talks
"The Last French Slave," invited talk
by History Associates, CWRU, 9 April 2003.
"The End of Barbary Slavery and the Roots
of French Empire in the Mediterranean," invited
talk at Oberlin College, 19 March 2003.
"Les captifs français en Afrique
du Nord, 17e-18e siècle," invited
talk in the course, "Les dépendants
en Espagne et Portugal (15e-19e siècle),"
Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales,
Paris, 14 December 1999.
Teaching Experience
Early Modern Europe, CWRU, fall 2003
Impostors in Early Modern Europe, CWRU, fall
2003
Comparative Slavery, CWRU, spring 2003
Introduction to Modern World History, CWRU, spring
2003
The Early Modern Mediterranean, CWRU, fall 2002
Posing, Passing and Pretending in Early Modern
Europe, Stanford, winter 1998; CWRU, fall 2002
Introduction to the Humanities: The Rise and
Fall of Europe, Teaching Fellow, Stanford, winter
2002
History Summer Honors College, Graduate Associate,
Stanford, fall 2000
Freshman Writing with History, Writing Instructor,
Stanford, spring 1997
Storming Heaven: Christianity in Conflict in
EME, Teaching Assistant, Stanford, winter 1997
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Academic Service
Judaic Studies Steering Committee, CWRU, 2003-present
Latin American History Search Committee, CWRU,
2003-2004, 2004-2005
Graduate Student Association, Representative,
Stanford, 1997-1998
Iberian History Speaker Series, Co-organizer,
Stanford, winter 1997
Medieval History Search Committee, Student Representative,
Stanford, 1996-1997
Professional Affiliations
American Historical Association, Member, Washington,
DC, 1997-present
Society for French Historical Studies, Member,
1999-present
American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies,
Member, 1999-present
Languages
Fluent in French, reading knowledge of Spanish
and Portuguese, some Hebrew
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