Research Area(s)
- Early Modern / Modern France
- Early Modern / Modern Mediterranean World
- Military History
- Military Healthcare
- War and Medicine
- State Formation
- Medical Topography
- Medicine in Empire
Publications
Peer Reviewed Articles:
“Medicalizing Topography: The French Army and Mediterranean Climates, 1760-1860.” The Canadian Journal of Health History/ Revue canadienne d’histoire de la santé, 41, no. 1, (April 2024): 37-66. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3138/cjhh.624-122022
Book Reviews:
Sean Quinlan, Morbid Undercurrents: Medical Subcultures in Postrevolutionary France in History: Reviews of New Books 50, no. 3 (May 2022) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03612759.2022.2060723
Walter Bruyère-Ostells, Benoît Pouget, Michel Signoli (dir.), Des chairs et des larmes. Combattre, souffrir, mourir dans les guerres de la Révolution et de l’Empire, 1792–1815, in Francia-Recensio 2021/4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11588/frrec.2021.4.84978
Tim Lockley, Military Medicine and the Making of Race: Life and Death in the West India Regiments, 1795-1874, for H-War, H-Net Reviews. November, 2020. URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55426
Online Contributions:
Benjamen Goff. “Featured Archive: Special Collections at Florida State University”. The Society for the Study of French History, French History Network Blog. June 2021. URL: http://frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/blog/?p=2980
Teaching & Supervision
Courses Taught:
Florida State University: 2016-2023
ASH 1044 Middle East History and Civilization (Taught Asynchronously Online)
WHO 1023 The Modern World to 1815
HIS 3491 Medicine and Society in the United States
IDS 1107 Understand the Past, Live in the Present, Shape the Future
WHO 1030 The Modern World since 1815 (Teaching Assistant)
IDS 3415 Guns, Drugs, and Slaves (Teaching Assistant)
AMH 2097 Race and Ethnicity in the U.S. (Teaching Assistant)
Butler County Community College: 2014-2015
HIST 121 Ancient History
HIST 201 Early United States History
Undergraduate Supervision:
Florida State University: 2020-2021
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Mentor (UROP)
Teaching Awards:
Florida State University: 2021
Joe Richardson Excellence in Teaching Award
Research
In Progress:
Managing Manpower during the Enlightenment: Military Healthcare and the French State, 1650-1815 (Book manuscript)
Contention on the Cotentin: Military-Medical Entrepreneurs and the French Contractor State during the Seven Years' War (Article-length project)
Taking Care of Captives: Moral Decision Making, Military Virtue and the Welfare of Prisoners in Eighteenth Century Warfare (SSHRC Insight Grant, PI Matthew Neufeld)
Education & Training
B.A. Penn State University
M.A. Duquesne University
Ph.D. Florida State University
(Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution)