Tulane University

Degrees

• B.A., Newcomb College of Tulane University
• M.S.W., Tulane University of Social Work
• Ph.D., Tulane University, History

Academic Experience

• Professor, Tulane University, 2014- present
• Associate Professor of History, Tulane University, 2008-2014
• Assistant Professor of History, Tulane University, 2005-2008
• Vice President and Adjunct Professor of History & Religious Studies, Lewis and Clark College, 2002-2005
• Assistant Professor of History, University of Southern Mississippi, 2000-2002

Research & Teaching Specializations: History, Women’s Studies, Religious Studies, Atlantic World, Women in US History

Related Experience

• Chair, New Orleans Tricentennial Symposium Committee, 2017-2018
• Vice president for planning and secretary of the College, Lewis and Clark College, 2002-2003
• Principal, The Pragma Group, 1993-1993
• Vice President for Public Affairs, Tulane University, 1990-1993

Distinctions

• Outstanding Faculty Research Award, Tulane University, 2014
• American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2010

Languages:

• French

Selected Publications

• 2017. “Genre et conversion religieuse des esclaves: La Nouvelle-Orléans 1720-1800,” in Les Laïcs dans la mission: Europe et Amériques XVIe-XVIIIe siècles. Edited by Aliocha Maldavsky. Presses Universitaires François-Rabelais: Tours, 183-194.
• 2013. “The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World.” University of North Carolina Press.
• 2013. “When is a Cloister Not a Cloister> Comparing Women and Religion in the colonies of France and Spain.” in Emily Clark and Mary Laven, eds, Women and Religion in the Atlantic Age
• 2003. “The Feminine Face of Afro-Catholicism in New Orleans, 1727-1852.” With Virginia M. Gould. William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser. 59:2 (April 2002): 409-448