Books
Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France (Cornell University Press, 2025)
Journal Issues and Fora Edited
- “Reproductive Rights Beyond Roe.” Forum in Gender & History, 36, no. 2 (July 2024). Co-edited with Melissa Reynolds.
- “Les petites annonces personnelles dans la presse française (XVIIIe – XXe siècles).” Special issue of Histoire, Économie & Société 39, no. 3 (September 2020). Co-edited with Claire-Lise Gaillard.
Refereed Articles
- “In Defense of the Search Bar.” The American Historical Review 130, no. 2 (June 2025): 714–735.
- “‘Confidences épistolaires de la Vénus publique’: Real-time Communication, Voyeuristic Reading, and Social Media’s Erotic Pre-History in the Petite Correspondance.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies 52, nos. 1–2 (Fall–Winter 2023–24): 89–106.
- “Reading Incognito: Periodicals, Sapphic Fictions, and Lesbian Communication.” Dix-Neuf 26, no. 1 (2022): 35–55.
- “Freedom’s Sex Problem: Classified Advertising, Law, and the Politics of Reading in Third Republic France.” French Historical Studies 44, no. 4 (October 2021): 675–709.
- Winner, 2021 Malcolm Bowie Prize, for the best article by an early-career researcher in the broader discipline of French Studies, Society for French Studies
- Winner, Triennial Charles R. Bailey Memorial Prize, for the best article in history produced by a member of the New York State Association of European Historians
- Featured in “Reproductive Rights in France,” a special curated issue of French Historical Studies, ed. Jean Elisabeth Pedersen, Fall 2024.
Invited Articles, Book Chapters, and Public Writing
- “Prostitution and the Market: Engendering Global Capitalism.” In A Cultural History of Prostitution in the Age of Empire. Edited by Andrew Israel Ross. Under contract with Bloomsbury Academic.
- “From the Front to the Back Page: Queer Reading in Theory and Practice.” In Queer Print Cultures: Resistance, Subversion, and Community. Edited by Vance Byrd and Javier Samper Vendrell. Forthcoming, University of Toronto Press, 2025.
- “Introduction: Histories of Abortion beyond Roe.” Gender & History 36, no. 2 (July 2024): 289–294. Co-authored with Melissa Reynolds.
- “Capitalism’s Back Pages: ‘Immoral’ Advertising and Invisible Markets in Paris’s Mass Press, 1880–1940.” In Capitalism’s Hidden Worlds, 119–138. Edited by Kenneth Lipartito and Lisa Jacobson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.
- “‘Les dessous des petites annonces’: quand les intimités se marchandent à la quatrième page des journaux (IIIe République).” Histoire, Économie & Société 39, no. 3 (September 2020): 45–66. Co-authored with Claire-Lise Gaillard.
- “Écrire l’histoire des petites annonces.” Histoire, Économie & Société 39, no. 3 (September 2020): 5–9. Co-authored with Claire-Lise Gaillard.
- “Policing Backpage and the Backpages.” Public Books, April 19, 2018.
Academic Book Reviews
- Review of Sex Work, Text Work: Mapping Prostitution in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel, by Jessica Tanner. Nineteenth-Century French Studies 53, no. 3–4 (2024).
- Review of Au NON des femmes: Libérer nos classiques du regard masculin by Jennifer Tamas. H-France Forum 19, no. 1 (2024).
- Review of Undesirable: Passionate Mobility and Women’s Defiance of French Colonial Policing, 1919–1952 by Jennifer Anne Boittin. H-France Review 23, no. 124 (July 2023).
- Review of The Fallen Veil: A Literary and Cultural History of the Photographic Nude in Nineteenth-Century France by Raisa Adah Rexer. Nineteenth-Century French Studies 50, no. 1–2 (2021).
- Review of Working Girls: Sex, Taste, and Reform in the Parisian Garment Trades, 1880–1919 by Patricia Tilburg. Women’s History Review 31, no. 1 (2021): 179–181.