I have served as chair or co-chair for the following doctoral dissertations in History at the University of Michigan.
John Finkelberg, “Becoming a Man in the Age of Fashion: Gender and Menswear in Nineteenth-Century France, 1830-1870,” (co-chair with Dena Goodman), 2022.
Daniel Williford, “Concrete Futures: Technologies of Urban Crisis in Colonial and Postcolonial Morocco,” (co-chair with Gabrielle Hecht), 2020.
Rebecca Wall, “The Jews of the Desert: Colonialism, Zionism, and the Jews of the Algerian M’zab, 1882-1962,” (co-chair with Todd Endelman), 2014.
Kenneth Garner, “Seeing Is Knowing: The Educational Cinema Movement in France, 1910-1945,” (co-chair with Gabrielle Hecht), 2012.
Sarah Moon McDermott, “Creole Citizens of France: The Trans-Atlantic Politics of Antillean Education and the Creole Movement since 1945” (co-chair with Rita Chin), 2012.
Andrew Israel Ross, “Urban Desires: Practicing Pleasure in the City of Light, 1848-1900,” 2011.
Samuel Temple, “The Nature of Nation: State-Building and the Politics of Environmental Marginality in 19th and 20th Century Southern France,” 2010.
Minayo Nasiali, “Native to the Republic: Negotiating Citizenship and Social Welfare in Marseille’s ‘Immigrant’ Neighborhoods Since 1945” (co-chair with Rita Chin), 2010.
Heloise Finch, “Housing, Urban Planning and Citizenship in Réunion: National Projects of Development in a French Overseas Department, 1958-1988,” 2010.
Peter Soppelsa, “The Fragility of Modernity: Infrastructure and Everyday Life in Paris, 1870-1914” (co-chair with Gabrielle Hecht), 2009.
