Writing and Research

Book:
The Despair of Reason: Essays on Science and Political Consciousness in the French Enlightenment.
(Currently under revision)

Articles:
“The Renaissance of Peiresc: Aubin-Louis Millin and the Post-Revolutionary Republic of Letters.” Isis (December 2008): 675-700.

“The Montmor Discourse: Science and the Ideology of Stability in Old Regime France,” Journal of the Historical Society, 5.1 (March 2005): 1-28.

“When Ideas Matter: The Moral Philosophy of Fontenelle,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 61.3 (July 2000): 433-452.

Reviews, Essay reviews, and Review articles:

“Transforming the Republic of Letters: Pierre-Daniel Huet and European Intellectual Life” By April G. Shelford (Seventeenth-Century News: Vol. 66, Nos. 1&2; 2008).

Review Article of Allison P. Coudert and Jeffrey S. Shoulson, eds. Hebraica Veritas? Christian Hebraists and the Study of Judaism in Early Modern Europe (2004) in Envoi: A Review Journal of Medieval Literature, 11.2 (Fall 2007): 124-138.

“A New Archaeology of the Enlightenment.” Essay Review of John Bender and Michael Marrinan, eds. Regimes of Description: In the Archives of the Eighteenth Century (2005), H-France Review, Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 99.

“Reconsidering Political Experience: New Trends in Interpretations of the French Revolution.” Review Article of Paul R. Hanson, The Jacobin Republic Under Fire: The Federalist Revolt in the French Revolution (2003) and Bailey Stone, Reinterpreting the French Revolution: A Global-Historical Perspective (2002) in The Canadian Journal of History, 39 (August 2004): 325-329.

“Ordinary Politics, Uncommon Ideas.” Essay Review of Tracy B. Strong, Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Politics of the Ordinary (2002), H-Ideas, H-Net Reviews (October 2003).

Public Writing and General Audience:

“Marquis de Condorcet,” and “Société des Amis des Noirs,” in The Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Trans-Atlantic World, ed. Junius P. Rodriguez (ME Sharpe, 2007).