B.A. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1979
Ph.D. Yale University, 1991
Publications:
Marianne in the Market: The Making of the Chic Consumer in Republican Paris, 1880-1920.
(University of California Press, forthcoming).
"Consumer Culture and the European Bourgeoisie," Il
Bollettino del diciannovesimo secolo (Spring 1997)
"Marianne in the Department Store: Gender and the Politics of Consumption in
Turn-of-the-Century Paris," Cathedrals of Consumption: The European Department
Store, 1850-1939, ed.s. Geoffrey Crossick and Serge Jaumain (Ashcroft Press,
1999).
"The Chic Interior, the Feminine Modern, and the Rehabilitation of Bourgeois
Taste: Home Decorating as High Art in Turn-of-the-Century Paris," Not at Home: The
Suppression of Domesticity in Modern Art and Architecture, ed. Christopher Reed
(Thames and Hudson, 1996).
"Redefining the Bourgeoisie: Recent Literature on Consumer Culture in Western
Europe," Radical History Review, vol. 57 (Fall 1993): 116-159.
Fellowships, Prizes, and Academic Honors:
1999 Gilder Foundation Grant
1996 Emily Gregory Award for Excellence in Teaching
1996 Faculty Research Grant, Barnard College
1994 Faculty Research Grant, Barnard College
1992-93 Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship, Getty Center for the History of Art and the
Humanities
1992 Bicentennial Research Fellowship, The French Historical Studies Society and the
Western Society for French History
1992 Travel to Collections Award, National Endowment for the Humanities
1992 Faculty Research Award, Wellesley College
1986-87 Bourse Chateaubriand (French Government Research Grant)
