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.

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 hope to use the experience of foreign troops in French service to address questions of citizenship, nationality and identity during the revolutionary era and after.

I received a B.A. in French and history from Cornell University in May 2008.

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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