I am a 2019-2020 Indigenous Pre-Doctoral Fellow at Queen’s University and PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. Prior to…
In the eighteenth-century, France’s metropolitan authorities and colonial officials tasked the French western explorer Pierre de La Vérendrye to integrate the Indigenous peoples of the Petit…
Since antiquity, we have speculated what it means to be an educated person and how we might live ethically and well. The curricula of schools…
This book examines how the media influenced ideas of race and beauty among African American women from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II. Between…
This article examines the advent of modeling as a profession for African American women. This new career resulted from two developments in early postwar America:…
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have long been engaged in a tripartite polemical and intellectual tradition. An early modern example of this interaction appears in a…
I am currently working on a critical Latin edition and English translation of Platina, Lives of the Renaissance Popes. Platina worked at the heart of the Renaissance papacy…
This book was the winner of the 2010 Heldt Prize, given by AWSS Winner of the 2010 Bruce Lincoln Book Prize, given by the Association…
The Transformation of Republicanism in the Sister Republic, is a chapter within the volume The Political Culture of the Sister Republics. France, The Netherlands, Switzerland, and…
This article was published in William Buxton’s edited collection, Patronizing the public: American philanthropy’s transformation of culture, communication, and the humanities. This book is the first detailed and comprehensive…