Academic Specialization

18th-Century France,The French Revolution,Early Modern European Social History ,European Women's History

Education

1. Ph.D., History, The Johns Hopkins University, l972
2. M.A., History, University of Chicago, l968
3. B.A., History, Bryn Mawr College, magna cum laude, l966

Teaching and Professional Appointments

1. Professor of History, Syracuse University, 1985-to present
2. Associate Professor of History, Syracuse University, l977-l985
3. Assistant Professor of History, University of California, San Diego, l972-l974
4. Assistant Professor of History, Macalester College, l974-l977

Selected and Recent Publications

1. "Marketing the Counter Reformation: Religion and Consumption in Early Modern France." To appear in a collection of articles in honor of Robert Forster.
2. "The Production and Marketing of Populuxe Goods in Eighteenth-Century Paris." In Consumption and the World of Goods, John Brewer and Roy Porter, eds. (London, 1993).
3. Domestic Enemies: Servants and Their Masters in Old Regime France (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, l984).
4. Poverty and Charity in Aix-en-Provence, 1640-1789 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1976).