Tulane University

Degrees

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

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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