INVITED TALKS & PRESENTATIONS

“Universal Visions and National Ambitions: Reconfiguring Civilization in Early Nineteenth-Century
Southeastern Europe,” New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania, 2019.
 

“Relations of Gratitude? Nineteenth-Century French Philanthropy, Elementary Education, &
Hellenophone Southeastern Europe,” Modern Greek Studies Program, Brown University, Providence,
RI, 2018.
 

“‘Civilization-Speak,’ Balkan Leaders & French Philanthropist in Early Nineteenth-Century Southeastern
Europe,” Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2017.
 

“The Global Balkans & the Nineteenth Century,” Department of History, Indiana University, Bloomington,
IN, 2016.
 

“A Tale of Two Debts: Modern Greece & Europe,” Elmhurst Public Library, Elmhurst, IL, 2016.
 

“Imperial & Culinary Crossroads: A Brief History of Romania,” Elmhurst Public Library, Elmhurst, IL, 2015.
 

“Greeks into Europeans: Elementary Education during the Era of Greek Independence,” Hellenic Studies
Salon, Institute for European Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2014.
 

“European Civilization & the Accidental Nation-State,” Department of Hellenic Studies, Simon Frasier
University, Vancouver, Canada, 2014.
 

“Schools & the Accidental Nation-State: Education Reform in Early Nineteenth-Century France,
Greece, & Romania,” European History Workshop, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2014.

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CONFERENCE & WORKSHOP PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS
* denotes panel organizer/co-organizer
 

“A Bright Future Behind Them: The Egyptian Campaign’s Role in Shaping Southeast European Political
and Cultural Identities,” Empire after the Empire: From Napoleon Empire to the Age of Empire,
Sciences Po Grenoble, 2021.
 

“French Civilization & the Development of Balkan National Identities, 1800-1850,” Association for Slavic,
East European, & Eurasian Studies, Washington, DC, 2020 (accepted).
 

“Discipline & Discipline: Foucault, Prison Education, & Historical Scholarship,” Society for French Historical
Studies, Indianapolis, IN, 2019.*
 

“‘Mama Read with Me’: International Politics, Family Networks, & Female Education in Wallachia &
Moldova, 1815-60,” Society for Romanian Studies, Bucharest, 2018.
 

“The Science of Philanthropy: Giving, Religion, & Transculturation in the Early Nineteenth-Century Balkans
& France,” Modern Greek Studies Association, Stockton, NJ, 2017.
 

“Why Teach in Prison?,” Crossroads: The Future of Graduate History Education, Madison, NJ, 2016.
 

“Home Schooling: Boys, Mothers, & Elementary Education in the Early Nineteenth Century,” Romanian
Studies Conference, Bloomington, IN, 2016.
 

“A New Kind of Conquest: French Liberals, Soft Power, & Post-Napoleonic Europe,” Society for French
Historical Studies, Nashville, TN, 2016.
 

“A Different Kind of Debt: France, Greece, & Civilization,” American Historical Association, Atlanta, GA,
2016.
 

“An Insertion of the Public Sphere in the Private: Elementary Education & the Family in the Early Greek
State,” Modern Greek Studies Association, Atlanta, GA, 2015.
 

“Romanian Unification & Europe: Marcovici’s Civilization,” Society for Romanian Studies, Bucharest,
Romania, 2015.*
 

“Rethinking Romania: Transnational Southeastern Europe,” Romanian Studies Conference, Bloomington,
IN, 2015.
 

“Europe’s Borderland: ‘French Influence’ & the Balkans,’” American Historical Association, New York, NY,
2015.*
 

“Between Culture & Politics: Identity, the Balkan Enlightenment, & the Greek War of Independence,”
Byzantine Studies Association of North America, Vancouver, Canada, 2014.
 

“Politics in the Guise of Good Deeds: Philanthropic Organizations, the Liberal Opposition, & the 1838 Law
on the Insane,” The Western Society for French History, San Antonio, TX, 2014.*
 

“Patriotic Mothers & Fit Sons: Elementary Education in the Early Greek State,” Berkshire Conference on
the History of Women, Toronto, Canada, 2014.*
 

“From Civilization to Nation: Lancastrian Schools in the Balkans before & after the Greek State,”
American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., 2014.
 

“On the Edge of Civilization: Lancastrian Schools & the Transition from an Orthodox Commonwealth to
Balkan Nationalism,” Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies, Boston, MA, 2013.*
 

“Lancastrian Schools before & after the Greek State,” Modern Greek Studies Association, Bloomington,
IN, 2013.*
 

“Spies & Greengrocers: Symbolic Uses of Securitate Files,” Romanian Studies Conference, Bloomington,
IN, 2009.
 

“Identity in Exile: Romanian Writers in Paris, 1947-89,” Society for Romanian Studies, Constanta, Romania,
2007.

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