B.A. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1979
Ph.D. Yale University, 1991
Books:
Marianne in the
Market: Envisioning Consumer Culture in Fin-de-Siècle France (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2002).
Textbooks:
The Western
Experience, 10th edition (New York: McGraw-Hill, forthcoming,
2009). Co-author with
Mortimer Chambers, Barbara Hanawalt, Theodore Raab, Isser Woloch.
The Western
Experience,
9th edition (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006). Co-author with Mortimer Chambers,
Barbara Hanawalt, Theodore Raab, Isser Woloch.
Other Publications:
“Redefining the
Bourgeoisie: Recent Literature on Consumer Culture in Western Europe,”
Radical History Review, vol. 57 (Fall 1993): 116-159.
“Consumer Culture
and the European Bourgeoisie,” Il Bollettino del diciannovesimo secolo
(Spring 1997) (reprint of article first published in Radical History Review).
“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, eds.
Geoffrey Crossick and Serge Jaumain (Ashcroft Press, 1999).
“The Chic Interior
and the Feminine Modern: 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).
Academic and Professional Honors:
Faculty Research Grant, 2008
Mellon SIRT Grant, 2007
Faculty Research Grant, 2006
Faculty Research Grant, 2005
Mellon Foundation
Post-Tenure Faculty Grant, 2003-2004
Mellon
Foundation Short-term Professional Development Grant, 2003
Faculty Research Grant, Barnard College, 2003
Faculty Research
Grant, Barnard College, 2001
Gilder Foundation
Grant, 1999-2001
Faculty Research
Grant, Barnard College, 1996
Emily Gregory
Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1996
Faculty Research
Grant, Barnard College, 1994
Getty Postdoctoral
Fellowship in the History of Art and the Humanities, 1992-93
French Historical
Studies Society, Bicentennial Research Fellowship, 1992 NEH, Travel to
Collections Award, 1992
Faculty Research
Award, Wellesley College, 1992
Bourse Chateaubriand (French Government Research Fellowship),
1986-87 Ray Murphy
Fellowship, Yale University, 1985-86
Council for
European Studies Pre-dissertation Grant, 1985
Phi Beta Kappa,
1979
Harold Carey Award
in History, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1979