I am a historian of Modern Europe with a focus on French colonialism, transnational humanitarianism, and the history of global medicine and public health. As an instructor in History and LIterature, I have taught the HL90s "Human Rights and Humanitarianism in the Modern World" and "HIV in Global Perspective" and co-taught an HL97 called "Decolonization" with Vikrant Dadawala. 

My book The Starving Empire is a history of famine in France's colonies in the 19th and 20th centuries. Touching on questions of public health, race science, humanitarian ethics, and transnationalism, the book shows how the French colonial state increasingly took responsibility for famines, while ultimately failing to fulfill that responsibility. 

I have published in French Politics, Culture, and Society on nutrition science in the French Empire, in French Historical Studies on state violence in colonial Ivory Coast, and in Slate on global hunger during COVID. 

Before coming to Harvard, I was a postdoctoral fellow at UChicago's Institute on the Formation of Knowledge and taught history of science and medicine at Sarah Lawrence College. I received my PhD in history from Stanford.