• PhD, Early-Modern French History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2010
  • Dissertation: Dissertation: "The Citizen Army of Old Regime France." Adviser: Jay Smith
  • Committee: Christopher Browning, Dick Kohn, Lloyd Kramer, Wayne Lee.
  • Secondary Fields: Atlantic History, Military History, Modern European History
• M.A., European History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2006
  • ​M.A. Thesis: "Citizen Warriors: French Perception of the American Military, 1775-1777. Adviser: Jay Smith. 
• B.A., History with Highest Honors, Cum Laude, College of William and Mary, 2004
  • Senior honors thesis: "Bridging the Gap: The French Military Linking the American and French Revolutions." Highest Honors. Adviser: Paul Mapp

• Instructor, National Institute for American History and Democracy, Summer, 2010
  College of William and Mary 
  Led discussions with and graded work of advanced high school students operating at the college level .
• Instructor, History Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Summer, 2009
  Created syllabus, chose readings, created assignments, grades, lectures, led discussion 
• Tutor, University of North Carolina Writing Center, 2008-2009
  Met individually with students to provide assistance on papers and general writing skills, led workshops on different types of writing 
• Teaching Assistant, History Department, University of North Carolina, 2004-2010
  Led discussions, graded papers, assisted with assignments and exams 
• Student Teacher, AP and Regular U.S. History, Tabb High School, 2003-2004 York County, Virginia 

• Book

• Citizen Soldiers and the Key to the Bastille (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
• “Guibert vs. Guibert: Competing Notions in the Essai général de tactique and the Défense du système de guerre moderne,” Society of Military History Journal 83:1(January 2019) : 43-65.
  

  Articles and Book Chapters

• “Guibert vs. Guibert: Competing Notions in the Essai général de tactique and the Défense du système de guerre moderne,” Society of Military History Journal 83:1(January 2019) : 43-65.

• “Dynamic Harmony: War and Culture in 18th-Century France and 21st-Century History,” in Cultures et identités combattantes en Europe de la guerre de Cent Ans à l’entre-deux-guerres, vol. 2 of La construction du militaire eds. Benjamin Deruelle and Arnaud Guinier, (Paris : Publications de la Sorbonne, 2017).

• “Cincinnatus Reborn: The George Washington Myth and French Renewal during the Old Regime,” French Historical Studies, 2015.

• "Early Modern French Armies." In Oxford Bibliographies in Military History. Ed. Dennis Showalter. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

• "Pride, Prejudice, and Prestige: French officers in North American during the Seven Years' War," in The Seven Years' War as a Global Conflict: Essays and Interpretations, eds. Mark H. Danely and Patrick J. Speelman (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers), forthcoming 2012.
• "French / American Alliance" entry in Reporting the American Revolution, ed. Todd Andrick (Sourcebooks, 2012).
• "A Tale of Two Tactics: Laclos's Novel Approach to Military Reform," Eighteenth Century Fiction 22:3 (Spring, 2010): 503-524.
• "Ancient Warriors on Modern Soil: French Military Reform and American Military Images in 18th Century France," French History 22 (June, 2008): 175-196.
• "Patriotism as Power: The Old Regime Foundation for Napoleon's Army," International Congress of Military History Conference Proceedings 2009 (Fall, 2010).

Review of The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon by Christy Pichichero.  H-France, April, 2019.

• Review of A Theater of Diplomacy: International Relations and the Performing Arts in Early Modern France by Ellen R. Welch.  H-Diplo, August, 2017.

• Review of St. Louis Rising: The French Regime of Louis St. Ange de Bellerive by Carl J. Ekberg and Sharon K. Person.  Journal of American History, 2016.

• Review of L’Honneur du Soldat: Ethique Martiale Et Discipline Guerrière Dans La France Des Lumières by Arnaud Guinier.  H-France, H-Net Reviews.  September, 2015.

• Review of Controlling Paris: Armed Forces and Counter-Revolution, 1789-1848 by Jonathan M. House.  H-War, H-Net Reviews. January, 2015.

• Review of Forging Napoleon's Grande Armee: Motivation, Military Culture, and Masculinity in the French Army, 1800-1808, by Michael J. Hughes. History: Review of New Books, (January, 2014).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       • Review of The Global Seven Years’ War 154-1763 by Daniel Baugh.  H-France Review (Spring, 2013)                                                                                                          

• “French / American Alliance” entry in Reporting the American Revolution, ed. Todd Andrick (Sourcebooks, 2012).                                                                                      

• Review of Aristocracy and its Enemies in the French Revolution by William Doyle.  History: Review of New Books  (Spring,2012)

Conferences

• "'War by the Book': Visions of Combat in 18th-Century French Literature", presented at the War and Culture Studies Conference in London, England, June 2015.
• "Citizens vs. Conscripts: Guibert's competing arguments in the Essai and the Défense," presented at the Society for Military History Conference in Montgomery, Alabama, April 2014.
• “Bloody Books and Gory Gazettes: Violence and Imagination in 18^th-Century French Reading Culture,” presented at the Western Society for French History in San Antonio, TX, November, 2014
• “From Kingpins to Outcasts: French Officers in the Early Revolution,” presented at the Society for French Historical Studies Conference in Quebec City, Canada, April 2014.
• “Enemies to Allies: French texts and the making of American identity,” presented at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference in Williamsburg, VA, March 2014.
• “'This is Sparta!': French Construction of Masculinity and the American Army,” presented at the Consortium for Revolutionary Era Conference in Oxford, MS, February, 2014
• "A Dream Deferred: The Citizen Army of France, 1760-1791," presented at the Society for the Study of French History Conference in Cardiff, Wales, 2013.
• "Old Regime Illusions and Revolutionary Realities: Competing Views of Citizenship and Military Service, 1789-1792" presented at the Society for French Historical Studies Conference in Boston, MA, 2013. 
• "Civil Confidence, Military Madness, and Fictional Foes: The French Army in the Early Revolution," presented at the Society for Military History Conference in New Orleans, LA, 2013. 
• "Defense of La Defense: Guibert and his Duty to the Military Enlightenment," presented at the Western Society for French Studies Conference in Portland, Oregon, November, 2011. 
• Co-Organizer, "Medieval Music to Contemporary Parks: The 2007-2008 Chateaubriand Workshop," Paris, April 2008.
• "Washington in Paris: the Creation of a Republican Noble," to be presented at the French Historical Studies conference, Charleston, South Carolina, February 2011.
• "Unwitting Sacrifice: The Noble Officer Corps and the rise of the French Soldier, 1760-1789," presented at the Society for Military History Annual Meeting, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia, May 2010.
• "The Arsenal of Revolution: France's Citizen Army 1787-1790," presented at "History of Military, War, and Society Triangle Seminar Series," Durham, North Carolina, March 2010.
• "French Soldiers into French Citizens: New Ideas for an Old Army, 1760-1789," presented at "French Cultural Studies Seminar" in Raleigh, North Carolina, February 2010.
• "La Dernire Goute de Mon Sang: The Sacred Duty of French Officers and their Rejection of Amerindian Allies," presented at "Contest for Continents: The Seven Years' War in Global Perspective," Fort Niagara, Niagara University, Brock University, October 2009.
• "Honor, Zeal, and Defeat: French Military Attitudes towards the Fight for Canada, 1756-1759," presented at "1759 Revisited: The Conquest for Canada in Historical Perspective," London, England, September, 2009.
• "The Citizen Army of Old Regime France," presented at the Triangle Institute for Security Studies "New Faces" Conference, September, 2009.
• "Patriotism as Power: Old Regime Foundations for Napoleon's Army," presented at "The XXXV International Congress of Military History: Warfare in the Age of Napoleon," Porto, Portugal, September 2009.
• "Citizen Soldiers: French Imagery of Americans in Arms during the Eighteenth Century," presented at the Revolutionary Consortium, Savannah, Georgia, February 2009. 
• "Reviving Sparta: The Role of Masculinity in French Participation in the American Revolution," presented at the Graduate Student Workshop, "Gender, Experience and Memory, 18th-20th Centuries," May 2007.
• "Citizen Warriors: French Perceptions of the American Military, 1775-1777," presented at the North Carolina Graduate Student Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina, February 2006.

Invited Talks

• “From Officer to Gentlemen: French Invention of George Washington and an American People,” presented at The Republics of France and the United States: 240 Years of Friendship conference, organized by Mount Vernon, presented in Paris, France September, 2019
• “Playing with Fire: From American Revolutionaries to French Revolution,” presented at the Society for Cincinnati Library in Anderson House, Washington D.C.  June, 2019
• "Entre L’Essai général de Tactique (1772) et la Défense du système de guerre moderne (1779) : deux visions du soldat par le comte de Guibert," presented as part of the Jour d’Etudes sur Guibert at l’Institut Historique Allemand in Paris, France,  January, 2019
• “The Shot heard ‘round Europe: George Washington in the Seven Years’ War” presented as part of the George Washington Teaching Institute in Mount Vernon, VA., November, 2016
• “18th Century Global Context” presented as part of the George Washington Teaching Institute in Mount Vernon, VA., August, 2015
• “American Nationality: A French Invention?” presented at The Marquis de Lafayette and the European Friends of the American Revolution conference in Mount Vernon, VA  June, 2015.
• “Greatest Enemies to Greatest Allies: France and America in the War for Independence,” to be presented at the Annual Conference on the American Revolution,” in Williamsburg, VA., March 2015.
• “George Washington and France: The Bungler, the General, the Ally, and the Myth,” presented as part of the George Washington Teaching Institute in Mount Vernon, VA    July, 2014.
• “The French-American alliance during the American Revolution,” presented as part of the George Washington’s Mount Vernon Teacher Workshop in Greenwood, MS., November, 2013.
• "French involvement in the American Revolution," a series of four lectures prepared and delivered as resources for secondary school teachers and students through the Education program at the Society of the Cincinnati March, 2012
• "In the Name of Honor: Officers of the French Army and their Participation in the American Revolution" presented at the Library for the Society of the Cincinnati. January, 2012
• "Digitizing and Making Information Accessible for Arizona's 100th Birthday" presented at Arizona State University for the department of Public History April, 2011

• Short-term Fellowship, Folger Institute, 2017
• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 2016
• Gilbert Chinard Grant, Institut Francais d' Amerique, 2012
• HARP Grant, College of Arts & Sciences, Mississippi State University, 2011
• Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Postdoctoral Fellowship in Academic Libraries, 2010-2011
• Tyree-Lamb Research Fellowship, Library of the Society of the Cincinnati, 2009
• Bourse Chateaubriand (French Embassy Grant), 2007
• Faherty Military History grant, 2007
• United Daughters of the Confederacy Scholarship, 2005, 2006
• University of North Carolina Department of History Graduate Assistantship, 2004-2010
• Ellen Monk Krattiger Award in History, College of William and Mary, 2004 
• Martin Jurrow Scholarship, Theater Department, College of William and Mary, 2004

• HI 1163 World History before 1500
• HI 4363 Renaissance and Reformation
• HI 4673 Nineteenth-Century Europe
• HI 4773 Modern France
• HI 4990 Early Modern France
• Hi 8803 History of the French Revolution 
• HI 8803 History of Atlantic Warfare
• HI 8853 Early Modern Europe
• HI 8893 International Security and Internal Safety Seminar
• Instructor, William and Mary, History 216: From the Founding of Jamestown through the American Revolution, Summer, 2010
• Instructor, UNC, History 151: Western Civilization, Summer, 2009
• Teaching Assistant, UNC, History 369: Warfare and American Society, Spring 2008
• History 151: Western Civilization, Fall, 2008
• History 490: Global History of Warfare, Spring, 2007
• History 151: Western Civilization, Fall, 2006
• History 19: World since 1945, Spring, 2006
• History 11: Western Civilization, Fall, 2005 
• History 10: Native American History, Spring, 2005
• History 55: Women in Medieval Europe, Fall, 2004
• Invited Instructor, French 450, College of William and Mary, November 19, 2009 Discussion: Laclos s Les Liaisons 

• Co-Organizer, French Film Festival, Mississippi State University, 2014-15
• Social Studies Consultant and Presenter for Science and Social Studies Integration with Literacy and Technology for Teachers 2014
• Member, Program Committee for the Society of Military History annual conference 2013
• Mentor, Day One Leadership Community, Mississippi State University, 2012, 2013
• Member, Institute for the Humanities Advisory Board, Mississippi State, 2012-2014 
• Co-Organizer, Symposium for History Undergraduate Research Conference. Mississippi State, 2012-2014
• Rapporteur, Triangle French Studies Seminar, National Humanities Center, 2009-2010
• Graduate Representative, Steering Committee for History of Military, War, and Society Seminar Series, 2009-2010
• Committee on Teaching, UNC-CH, 2006-2007
• History Department Senator to the Graduate Professional Student Federation, 2005-2006
• UNC-CH, Student Representative, Search Committees for History and French, College of William and Mary, 2004
• Member, French Historical Society
• Member, Society of Military History
• Member, Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture 
• Member, American Historical Association