Research and publications
BOOKS:
Civilizing Habits: Women Missionaries and the Revival of French Empire, Oxford University Press, 2010
Winner of the Frances Keller Richardson-Sierra Prize, Western Association of Women Historians, 2011
Co-editor, Views from the Margins: Creating Identities in Modern France, University of Nebraska Press, 2008
Educating the Faithful: Religion, Society, and Schooling in Nineteenth-Century France, Northern Illinois University Press, 2000. French edition: L’enseignement au temps des congrégations (Le diocèse de Lyon, 1801-1905), Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 2003.
SELECTED ARTICLES:
“’Civiliser’ et convertir au XIXe siècle : Les baptêmes clandestins et les religieuses missionnaires,” in Femmes, Genre et Catholicisme : Nouvelles Recherches, Nouveaux Objets (France, XIXe-XXe siècles), ed. Anne Cova and Bruno Dumons, Chrétiens et Sociétés, Documents et Mémoires no. 17, 2012.
“Blogging in the Classroom: Using a Blog as a Supplemental Resource” (with Jason Lahman and Brian J. Griffith), Perspectives on History vol. 50, no. 4 (April 2012), 20-22.
"Charity Begins Abroad: The Filles de la Charité in the Ottoman Empire," in God's Empire: French Missionaries and the Modern World, ed. J.P. Daughton and Owen White, Oxford University Press, 2012.
"Emilie de Vialar and the Religious Reconquest of Algeria," French Historical Studies 29 (Spring 2006).
“Charitable Ladies: Gender, Class, and Religion in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Paris,” Past and Present 177 (November 2002): 121-56.
“Persécution et résistance : Les congrégations enseignantes face à la loi des associations de 1901,” Revue d’Histoire de l’Eglise de France 88 (June 2002): 175-95.
"Supply and Demand: Religious Schooling in Nineteenth-Century France," History of Education Quarterly 39 (Spring 1999): 51-72.
"Lay Habits: Religious Teachers and the Secularization Crisis of 1901-04," French History 9 (December 1995): 478-98.
CURRENT RESEARCH:
“Small Worlds: The Culture of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century France” (book-length project)