I am a historian of modern France and completed my PhD at the University of Iowa before arriving at Kent State University in 2005. My book project, The Good Buyer: Women, the Family, and the Creation of Mass Consumer Society in France, 1944-1965, places women and the family at the center of an investigation of social and cultural change following the Second World War. I both highlight the importance of women’s consumer demands during this period, and examine how the family was shaped by the transition from poverty to mass consumer society. I am particularly interested in social and cultural history and teach courses on politics, culture, society, and gender in modern Europe and modern France. |