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I’m a PhD Candidate in the department of history at the University of Michigan specializing in the history of modern France, the urban development of Paris, and the history of sexuality.  Currently, I’m completing research on my dissertation, tentatively titled “Urban Desires: Practicing Pleasure in the ‘City of Light,’ 1850-1900,” a project that explores the relationship between the transformation of urban space and public sexual practices in Paris during the second half of the nineteenth century.  My work also incorporates feminist and queer scholarship, critical theory more generally, and cultural studies.

This blog is a continuation of an older version located on blogspot.  I hope it will be more academically focused, discussing contemporary events in the context of academia and historical scholarship, while also exploring American — and European — culture through a queer and feminist lens.

I can be reached at airpollutionblog@gmail.com.