I am a permanent lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Modern European History at the University of Sheffield. I was previously a fellow at IAS Zürich, a fixed-term Assistant Professor of History at the University of Cambridge and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Watson Institute at Brown University. I also serve as the Secretary of the Society for French Historical Studies.

I obtained my PhD from Columbia University where my dissertation was awarded the Clough Prize for the best dissertation in European history. I also hold an MPhil in Modern European History from the University of Cambridge and a dual Msc degree in European affairs from LSE and Sciences Po.

My work has appeared in Past & Present, the Journal of Global History as well as edited volumes. I am also finishing a book about the politics of taxation in the French colonial empire between the 1850s and the 1950s, and I regularly write for a larger audience about the history and politics of international taxation and the afterlives of empire and colonialism. I am at the very early stages of a new project on “The Great Depression in the Age of Empire.”