Articles:
“Transforming a Brazilian Aeronaut into a French Hero: Celebrity, Spectacle, and Technological Cosmopolitanism in the Turn-of-the-Century Atlantic,” Past & Present, 254, no. 1 (February 2022): 235-275.
“Flight,” Encyclopedia of the History of Science (June 2021), doi: 10.34758/4xby-mq38.
“Martyrs Made in the Sky: The Zénith Balloon Tragedy and the Construction of the French Third Republic’s First Scientific Heroes,” Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science 74, no. 3 (September 2020): 365-386.
"Imagining an Old City in Nineteenth-Century France: Urban Renovation, Civil Society, and the Making of Vieux Lyon," Journal of Urban History 45, no. 1 (January 2019): 67-98.
Review Essays:
"Parisian Palimpsest: Monuments, Ruins and Preservation in the Long Nineteenth Century," Journal of Urban History 41, no.4 (July 2015): pp. 739-745.
Book Reviews:
Review of Willa Z. Silverman, Henri Vever: champion de l’Art nouveau (Malakoff, France: Armand Collin, 2018), in French Politics, Culture & Society, forthcoming.
Review of Mi Gyung Kim, The Imagined Empire: Balloon Enlightenments in Revolutionary Europe (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016), in Technology & Culture 60, no. 2 (April 2019): 628-630.
Invited Lectures:
“The Universal Machine: Lighter-than-Air Flight and Utopianism in Nineteenth-Century France,” the University of Texas at Arlington’s 55th Annual Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, Flight Culture and the Human Experience, University of Texas, Arlington, 15-16 April 2021
“Whims of the Wind: The Balloon's Ascent, Decline, and Resurrection in France,” Linda Hall Library, Fellows Public Lecture Series, Kansas City, MO, 23 August 2018.
“Franco-Brazilian ‘Informal’ Forms: Empire and Caricature in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro,” Albright College, Experience Event, Reading, PA, 9 April 2018.
“The Belle Époque Aloft: Ballooning and Aristocratic Modernity in Third Republic France,” Department of History, Brown University, Providence, RI, 16 November 2017.
"The Ascending Republic: Aeronautical Culture in France, 1860-1908," Linda Hall Library, Fellows' Breakfast, Kansas City, MO, 10 July 2017.
"The Balloon in Third-Republic France: Politics, Culture, and Society," Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Works-in-Progress Series, Washington, D.C., 16 August 2016.
Conference papers:
“Aristocratic Associational Life: Gender, Distinction, and the Aéro-Club de France in Turn-of-the-Century France,” Philip G. Nord Festschrift, Princeton University, 14-15 May 2021 (postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic).
“Imagining Air Power: Lighter-than-Air Flight and Utopia in Nineteenth-Century France,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Washington, D.C., 29-31 October 2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic).
“The Rarified Airs of Distinction: Gendered Balloon Ascents and Aristocratic Modernity in the French Third Republic,” Society for the History of Technology, Milan, Italy, 24-27 October 2019.
“‘Ce gentlemen rider du turf atmosphérique’ [sic]: Ballooning, Aristocratic Masculinity, and the Colonial Imaginary in turn-of-the-century France,” Western Society for French History, Portland, ME, 1-3 November 2018.
"Robert Macaire Goes to Rio: Caricature and Frenchness in Nineteenth-Century Brazil," Society for French Historical Studies, Washington, D.C., 20-22 April 2017.
"'Le petit Santos': The Making of a Cosmopolitan Aeronaut in Turn-of-the-Century Paris," Society for French Historical Studies, Nashville, TN, 3-6 March 2016.
"From Trivial Amusement to Patriotic Science: The Republican Revival of French Scientific Ballooning," History of Science Society, San Francisco, CA, 19-22 November 2015.
"'Les antiques héros admireraient notre âge': The 1875 Zénith Balloon Tragedy and the Making of Third-Republic Scientific Heroes," Western Society for French History, Chicago, IL, 5-7 November 2015.
"The Ascending Republic: French Ballooning in the Wake of the Franco-Prussian War," Society for the History of Technology, Albuquerque, NM, 8-11 October 2015.
"Razing the City for the Bourgeoisie: Lyon's Rue Impériale and the Emergence of a New Urban Spatial Order in Nineteenth-Century France," Urbanism and Urbanity, Nineteenth Century Studies Association Conference, Chicago, IL, 22 March 2014.
Concurrent Research:
Rue Impériale, Lyon (Archives Municipales de Lyon).