Modern Europe and France; European cultural history; race in Europe. 

Courses:

• Emerging Europe
• Europe from the Restoration through World War II
• Contemporary Europe
• Racism in Europe
• Blacks in Europe
• Negritude and Beyond
• World History I & II (Honors)
• Races on Display
• African Americans in Europe

Select Publications

• "“More than the Gift”: The Fatherless Children of France, Franco-American Epistolary Relationships, and the Birth of Person-to-Person Mass Philanthropy during and after the Great War," Journal of Women’s History 34, no. 4 (Winter 2022): 81-100.
• "'Gods We Were': Rejuvenation as Social Metaphor in Interwar Pulp Fiction in Europe and the United States," Interdisciplinary Humanities 30 (Spring 2013): 101-112.
• "'Chasing the Elusive Pill':  YMCA Men, the Paris Baseball League and Making Baseball French, 1919-1925,"  The International Journal of the History of Sport 28:13 (Sept 2011):  1772-1787. 
• "Syncopated Hits:  The Clef Club Negro Baseball Team in Jazz-Age Paris,"  Nine:  A Journal of Baseball History and Culture 19: 2 (Spring 2011):  44- 52. 
• "Mephistopheles and Monkeys: Rejuvenation, Race, and Sexuality in Popular Culture in Interwar France," Journal of the History of Sexuality 13:3 (2004): 306-25.
• Ambivalent Desire: the Exotic Black Other in Jazz-Age France (Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 2002).
• "Dancing Dangerously: Colonizing the Exotic at the Bal Nègre in the Inter-War Years," French Cultural Studies 12:1 (2001): 59-75.