I am a Ph.D. candidate in the history department at Johns Hopkins University. My chief area of interest is early-modern France, especially French social and military history of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. I also study other regions of early-modern Europe, as well as modern France.

My dissertation project deals with foreign soldiers and regiments in the French army under the Old Regime monarchy, the Revolution and the First Empire. I am interested in using the experience of foreign troops in French service to address questions of citizenship, nationality and identity during the revolutionary era and after.

Before coming to Johns Hopkins in September 2008, I received a B.A. in French and history from Cornell University the previous May.

On a non-professional level, I am interested in free/open-source software, particularly Ubuntu GNU/Linux and related projects. I contribute to a blog about Ubuntu on WorksWithU.com.

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