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Educational Background

M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
B.A., Hobart College

Academic Positions

Harvard University, 2007-2014
     Executive Officer, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies 
     Faculty, Harvard Summer Programs

Rochester Institute of Technology, 2001-2007
     Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts
     Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History

Yale University, 1988-2001
     John B. Madden Dean of Berkeley College
     Lecturer, Department of History 
     Lecturer, Yale Divinity School

Stanford University, 1985-88
     Teaching and Research Fellow, Department of History

Research Interests

France since 1789, politics, religion and society.

Publications

• “Political Trials in the French Revolution.” in Political Trials:  Interdisciplinary Perspectives.  Cambridge University Press.  (forthcoming).
• “Un-bloc’ing the French Revolution.”  The European Review of History, Spring 2004. 
•   (Greenwood Press, 2002)
•  with Paul Goldberger & Stephen Kieran (Berkeley College, 1999)

Current Work

Secularization and the French Third Republic