Articles & Essays:

“The Utopian Machine: Lighter-than-Air Flight and Utopianism in Nineteenth-Century France,” in Flight Culture and the Human Experience, ed. Scott W. Palmer (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2025).

“The Olympic Balloon: A Sublime Celebration of the ‘City of Flight,” French History 38, no. 4 (2024): 499-506.

“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.

“‘Ce gentlemen [sic] rider du turf atmosphérique’: l’aérostation, la masculinité aristocratique et l’imaginaire colonial au tournant du XXe siècle,” Romantisme 197, no. 3 (2022): 94-106.

“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.

Susan K. Foley, Republican Passions: Family, Friendship and Politics in Nineteenth-Century France (Manchester University Press, 2023), in Journal of Family History 49, no. 4 (October 2024): 437-440.

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.

Selected Presentations:

“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.

“‘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.

Rue Impériale, Lyon (Archives Municipales de Lyon).

Rue Impériale, Lyon (Archives Municipales de Lyon).