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Appointments

• Associate Professor of History, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, August 2018 – present.

Education

• Ph.D., History, Johns Hopkins University, 2018
• M.A., History, Johns Hopkins University, 2013
• B.A. (Hons.), History & French, Wesleyan University, 2010

Publications

• Journal Article (Peer Review)
  • “The ‘Ambroise Affair’...” French History 32, no. 4 (2018): 493–510.

• Book Chapter (Peer Review)
  • “‘Free and Naturalized Frenchwomen’...” In Fertility, Family, and Social Welfare... (Palgrave, 2023)

• Essay (Peer Review)
  • “France and its Empire in the Indian Ocean” (with Blake Smith). Oxford Bibliographies: Atlantic History (2019)

• Book Chapters (Editorial Review)
  • “Gender, Family, and Social Control...” In Women in the Making of Mauritian History, 2nd ed. (2023)
  • “‘A Thousand Prejudices’...” In Une Amérique française, (2015)

• Essays (Editorial Review)
  • “Gender and Slavery in Global Contexts...” Esclavages & post-esclavages no. 9 (2024)
  • “Incertaines catégories raciales.” In Colonisations. Notre histoire (2023)
  • “Instructions du Ministère de la Marine...” Outre-Mers 103, no. 388–389 (2015)

• Public Scholarship (Editorial Review)
  • “Looking for ‘Petit Jean’...” 64 Parishes (2025) Link
  • “Furcy Madeleine and Abby Guy...” Imaginaries 14, no. 2 (2024) Link
  • Slavery and Freedom: Journeys Across Time and Space (co-author, 2024); L’affaire Abby Guy (co-translator, 2024) Link
  • “Les esclaves vendus comme ‘biens nationaux’...” (2023) Link

• Editorial Work
  • Co-editor (with Sarah Zimmerman), Esclavages & post-esclavages no. 9 (2024)

• Review Essays
  • Review of Malgaches et Vazaha à Tamatave, Politique africaine 175–176 (2025)
  • Review of Archipelago of Justice by Laurie M. Wood. H-France Forum 17 (2022) Link

• Manuscripts in Preparation
  • Making Whiteness on La Réunion (monograph)
  • “‘Mixed-Blood’ Empire...” (article, under review)
  • Freedom Deferred (edited source reader)
  • “Enslaved by the Church, Sold for the Republic” Link
  • “Arkansas Créole” Link

Awards

Research Awards

• 2025 – Huntington Library Short-Term Fellowship
• 2024 – ACLS Project Development Grant
• 2023 – ASECS/Boston Athenaeum Fellowship
• 2022 – Camargo Foundation Core Program Residency
• 2021 – UA Little Rock Provost’s Grant (Research)
• 2019 – G. Thomas Eisele Fellowship
• 2017 – Doris G. Quinn Dissertation Completion Fellowship
• 2017 – Singleton Center Dissertation Research Fellowship
• 2016 – John Carter Brown Library Fellowship
• 2014 – SSRC Mellon IDRF

Teaching Awards

• 2024 – Online Teaching Excellence Award, UA Little Rock
• 2023 – NEH Summer Institute Participant (Enslaved.org)
• 2022 – Provost’s Grant for Excellence in Teaching
• 2015 – Dean’s Teaching Fellowship, Johns Hopkins

Presentations

Conferences

• Jan. 2026 — “Creolizing Cultivation...” (AHA, Chicago, IL)
• May 2025 — “Race and Belonging at Sea...” (FCHS, Buffalo, NY)
• Apr. 2025 — “Mapping Creole Arkansas...” (WashU, St. Louis, MO)
• Mar. 2025 — “‘A Model, Virtuous, and Lucrative Slavery’...” (LHA, Baton Rouge, LA)
• Feb. 2025 — “The Catholic Church and Slavery...” (UNESCO, Univ. of Mauritius)
• Apr. 2024 — “Recruiting the ‘Restraint of Religion’...” (FEEGI, Providence, RI)
• Mar. 2024 — “Looking for Petit Jean...” (LHA, New Orleans, LA)
• June 2023 — “Gender, Family, and Social Control...” (Univ. Trier, Germany)
• June 2023 — “L’Église et l’esclavage...” (Univ. Bordeaux Montaigne, France)
• May 2023 — “‘Le Philantrope Jannou Vend Sa Femme!’...” (FCHS, Martinique)
• Nov. 2022 — Roundtable: Digital Humanities and Empire (WSFH, Virtual)
• May 2022 — “‘Creoles Far from Our Land’...” (FCHS, Charleston, SC)
• Mar. 2022 — “‘Effacer le souvenir de leur état’...” (SFHS, Charlotte, NC)
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Invited Talks

• Sept. 2025 — “Race, Racialisation, and Enslavement...” (Amsterdam & Nijmegen, Virtual)
• Dec. 2024 — “Furcy Madeleine & Abby Guy...” (Musée de Villèle, Réunion)
• Apr. 2024 — “Rethinking the Legend of Petit Jean...” (UA Little Rock)
• Mar. 2024 — “Teaching with Collaborative Annotation” (ASU-Beebe)
• Feb. 2023 — “New England Merchant Families...” (Boston Athenaeum)
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Guest Lectures

• Mar. 2025 — “Historiography and Article Writing” (Morgan State, Virtual)
• Feb. 2021 — “Echoes of Haiti’s Revolution” (UALR, Virtual)
• Sept. 2020 — “Global Haitian Revolution” (Penn State, Virtual)
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Courses Taught

Global History

• History of Civilization II: World History Since 1500
• The Haitian Revolution in World History
• History of the Atlantic World
• Revolutions in World History
• Global Perspectives on Race

European History

• Twentieth-Century Europe
• Modern France from 1700

Methods

• Historical Methods Seminar
• The Historian's Craft

Service

Professional

• Co-Chair (2024–present), Member (2024–2027), Committee on LGBTQ+ Status in the Profession, American Historical Association (AHA)
• Chair, Research Travel Award Committee (2024–2025); Executive Board Member (2020–2024), Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI)
• Invited Participant, Book Manuscript Workshop, Stanford University (2020)
• Book Manuscript Reader, Cambridge University Press
• Article Manuscript Reviewer, William & Mary Quarterly

Institutional

• Undergraduate Advisor (2025–present)
• Invited Member, Trojan Integrated Planning and Accreditation Committee, Office of the Provost, UA Little Rock (2024–2025)
• Concurrent Enrollment Liaison, Department of History, UA Little Rock (2023–2025)
• Chair (2024–2025), Member (2022–2024), Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Department of History, UA Little Rock
• Member, Online Campus Advisory Board (OCAB), UA Little Rock (2023–2025)
• Moderator, Q&A Session with Guests of the Office of Alumni and Development, UA Little Rock (March 2024)
• Member, Research and Creative Works Committee, UA Little Rock (2022–2023)
• Member, Awards Committee, Gender Studies Program, UA Little Rock (2022)
• Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, College of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences, and Education, UA Little Rock (2021–2022)
• Workshop Facilitator & Steering Committee Member, Mobile Institute on Scientific Teaching (MIST), UA Little Rock (2021–2022)
• Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Department of History, UA Little Rock (2020–2021)
• Faculty Liaison, UA Little Rock History Club (2019–2021)

Community

• Member, Next Generation Advisory Committee, Arkansas Humanities Council (NEH Affiliate) (2022–2023)
• Volunteer Judge, Central Arkansas History Day Competition (2019–2025)

Other Employment

• GIS Assistant, Johns Hopkins University
• Docent and Translator, St. Mary’s Historic Site
• Website Translator, EHESS, Paris

Languages & Software

Languages

• English: Native
• French: Fluent
• Portuguese: Intermediate
• Réunionese Creole & Italian: Beginner

Software (Teaching & Advising)

• Blackboard (Classic and Ultra) – Learning Management System
• Workday Student – Academic advising and planning
• DegreeWorks – Academic advising and planning
• Google Suite – Collaborative productivity tools
• ESRI ArcGIS Online, Story Maps – Spatial data visualization, digital storytelling
• Exhibit.so – Exhibit curation using IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework)
• Perusall – Collaborative annotation platform
• Transkribus – AI transcription of manuscript documents
• Voyant Tools, HathiTrust Analytics – Text mining and topic modeling

Software (Research & Design)

• Adobe Creative Suite (Rush, InDesign) – Multimedia design
• ArcGIS Pro (ESRI) – Spatial analysis and cartography
• QGIS – Open-source geospatial analysis
• SPSS – Statistical analysis
• Tropy – Archival image management
• Zotero – Bibliographic and citation management

Affiliations

• American Historical Association (AHA)
• American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS)
• Consortium on the Revolutionary Era (CRE)
• Centre de Recherches sur les Sociétés de l’Océan Indien (CRESOI)
• French Colonial Historical Society (FCHS)
• Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI)
• Society for French Historical Studies (SFHS)
• European History Section of the Southern Historical Association (SHA-EHS)
• Western Society for French History (WSFH)

References

• Dr. Sue Peabody — Washington State University speabody@wsu.edu
• Dr. Barclay Key — University of Arkansas at Little Rock btkey@ualr.edu
• Dr. Todd Shepard — Johns Hopkins University tshep75@jhu.edu

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