Direc­tor of Research Projects, Roy Rosen­zweig Cen­ter for His­tory and New Media,  (2007– ).

Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor of His­tory, George Mason University (2007– ).

Post­doc­toral Fel­low, Roy Rosen­zweig Cen­ter for His­tory and New Media (2006–2007).

Web Devel­oper, MAXfunds.com (2000–2001).

Sys­tems Engi­neer, IBM (1996–1999).

Ph.D., His­tory, Michi­gan (2005).

B.A., Eco­nom­ics, His­tory, Yale (1996).

“Quel design pour le développe­ment et le suivi des out­ils numériques pour l’histoire au ser­vice de tous?” In His­toire et Trans­mis­sion, edited by Annick Lantenois and Gilles Rouffineau. Paris: Éditions B42, forthcoming.

“A Per­fect Body of Knowl­edge: Taste and Diges­tion in Eighteenth-Century France.” In Le Corps et ses images: santé, humeurs, mal­adies, edited by Sabine Arnaud and Helge Jord­heim. Paris: Hon­oré Cham­pion, forthcoming.

The Expert Cook in Enlight­en­ment France. Bal­ti­more: The Johns Hop­kins Uni­ver­sity Press, 2011.

“Infec­tion and Cor­rup­tion: Cooks and Kitchens in Eighteenth-Century France.” Pro­ceed­ings of the West­ern Soci­ety for French His­tory 33, 2007.

“Sci­ence with­out sci­en­tists: mod­ern cook­ing in the eigh­teenth cen­tury.” SVEC, no. 12, 2005. Win­ner of the Voltaire Foun­da­tion Bester­man Prize.

“Domes­tic Exper­tise: Lit­er­acy and Numer­acy in the Eighteenth-Century Kitchen.” Pro­ceed­ings of the West­ern Soci­ety for French His­tory 32, 2005. Win­ner of the West­ern Soci­ety for French History’s Edward T. Gar­gan Prize.

OpenEdi­tion / Dig­i­tal Library for Open Human­i­ties (http://openedition.org), funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche, €7,000,000, Part­ner Project Direc­tor (2012–2014).

Zotero Every­where (http://zotero.org), funded by the Andew W. Mel­lon Foun­da­tion, $600,000, Co-Principal Inves­ti­ga­tor (2010–2012).

Using Zotero and TAPOR on the Old Bai­ley Pro­ceed­ings: Data Min­ing with Crim­i­nal Intent (http://criminalintent.org/), funded by Dig­ging into Data (a joint ini­tia­tive of the National Endow­ment for the Human­i­ties, National Sci­ence Foun­da­tion, Social Sci­ence and Human­i­ties Research Coun­cil, and Joint Infor­ma­tion Sys­tems Com­mit­tee), $100,000, Project Direc­tor (2010–2011).

The Ency­clo­pe­dia of Diderot and d’Alembert Col­lab­o­ra­tive Trans­la­tion Project (http://www.hti.umich.edu/d/did/), Project Direc­tor (2008– ).

Build­ing the Games Stu­dents Want to Play, funded by the Insti­tute for Museum and Library Ser­vices, $649,000, Co-Principal Inves­ti­ga­tor (2008–2010).

Schol­ar­ship in the Age of Abun­dance: Enhanc­ing His­tor­i­cal Research With Text-Mining and Analy­sis Tools, funded by the National Endow­ment for the Human­i­ties, $340,000, Co-Principal Inves­ti­ga­tor (2008–2010).

Zotero Com­mons, funded by the Andrew W. Mel­lon Foun­da­tion, $514,000, Co-Director (2008–2009).

Zotero 2.0, funded by the Andrew W. Mel­lon Foun­da­tion, $890,000, Co-Director (2006–2008).

Zotero 1.0, funded by the Insti­tute of Museum and Library Ser­vices, $250,000, Co-Director (2006–2007).

Echo 2 (http://echo.gmu.edu), funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foun­da­tion, $700,000, Asso­ciate Direc­tor (2006–2007).

Mathy Junior Fac­ulty Award, George Mason Uni­ver­sity (2009).

Nel­son Junior Fac­ulty Research Award, George Mason Uni­ver­sity (2008).

Bester­man Prize, The Voltaire Foun­da­tion, Oxford Uni­ver­sity. Awarded for best grad­u­ate stu­dent essay (2005).

Edward T. Gar­gan Prize, West­ern Soci­ety for French His­tory. Awarded for best paper pre­sented by a grad­u­ate stu­dent at the society’s annual meet­ing (2005).

Rack­ham Pre­doc­toral Fel­low­ship, Uni­ver­sity of Michi­gan (2004).

Fred­er­ick Huetwell Fel­low­ship, Uni­ver­sity of Michi­gan (2003).

Inter­na­tional Dis­ser­ta­tion Research Fel­low­ship, Social Sci­ence Research Coun­cil (2002).

Georges Lurcy Memo­r­ial Trust Fel­low­ship (2002).

Ful­bright Fel­low­ship (2002, declined).

Rack­ham Human­i­ties Research Fel­low­ship, Uni­ver­sity of Michi­gan (2002).

Everett Helm Vis­it­ing Scholar Award, Lilly Library, Indi­ana Uni­ver­sity (2001).

Inter­na­tional Insti­tute Pre­dis­ser­ta­tion Research Award, Uni­ver­sity of Michi­gan (2001).

Orla B. Tay­lor Award, Uni­ver­sity of Michi­gan (2001).

“Diet for the Debauched: Pre­ven­tive Med­i­cine in the Eighteenth-Century Trop­ics,” French Colo­nial His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 2012.

Ses­sion chair, “Chal­lenges and poten­tial­i­ties of online archives,” DHLU, Lux­em­bourg, March 2012.

“Design Mat­ters: les out­ils numériques pour l’histoire au ser­vice de tous,” invited speaker, Journée d’étude, Valence, France, May 2011. 

Zotero Work­shops, Boot­Camp for THAT­Camp Flo­rence, Italy, March 2011.

“Fac­ing Abun­dance: Zotero as an Enlight­en­ment Tool,” Amer­i­can Soci­ety for Eighteenth-Century Stud­ies, Albu­querque, New Mex­ico, March 2010. 

“Enabling Open Source Schol­arly Research,” Invited speaker, Ober­mann Pub­lic Human­i­ties Sym­po­sium, Uni­ver­sity of Iowa, Octo­ber 2009.

“The Future of Dig­i­tal His­tory,” Keynote speaker, Médias et infra­struc­tures numériques pour les sci­ences his­toriques, Bern, Switzer­land, Sep­tem­ber 2009.

“Zotero 2.0 as a Research Plat­form,” New Direc­tions in Dig­i­tal Schol­ar­ship Sym­po­sium, CLIR/University of Illi­nois at Urbana-Champaign, Feb­ru­ary 2009.

“The Sci­ence of Taste,” Invited lec­ture, Brock Uni­ver­sity, Jan­u­ary 2009.

“Fac­ulty of Taste: Cooks and Sen­si­bil­ity in the Eigh­teenth Cen­tury,” West­ern Soci­ety for French His­tory, Uni­ver­sité Laval, Novem­ber 2008.

“A Per­fect Body of Knowl­edge: Taste, Diges­tion, and Dis­sec­tion in Eighteenth-Century France,” Inter­na­tional Soci­ety for Eighteenth-Century Stud­ies, Mont­pel­lier, France, July 2007.

Panel chair, “Peo­ple of Color in the Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Era: Debates, Rela­tion­ships, and Rep­re­sen­ta­tions,” Con­sor­tium on the Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Era, 1750-­1850, George Mason Uni­ver­sity, March 2007.

Com­ment on papers by Nina Gel­bart, Jason Kuznicki, and Jef­frey Mer­rick, West­ern Soci­ety for French His­tory, Cal­i­for­nia State Uni­ver­sity, Octo­ber 2006.

“Infec­tion and Cor­rup­tion: Cooks and Kitchens in Eighteenth-Century Paris,” West­ern Soci­ety for French His­tory, Col­orado Col­lege, Octo­ber 2005.

“Cor­rupt­ing Spaces: Kitchens and Dan­ger in Eighteenth-Century Paris,” Soci­ety for the Study of French His­tory, Uni­ver­sity of Southamp­ton, UK, July 2005.

“Guilty Plea­sures and Culi­nary Ter­ror­ism: McDonaldiza­tion in the United States, France, and Mada­gas­car,” Invited lec­ture, Amer­i­can Stud­ies Con­fer­ence, Antana­narivo, Mada­gas­car, May 2005.

“The Sci­en­tist in the Kitchen: Cook­ing, Exper­tise, and Author­ity in Eighteenth-Century France,” Soci­ety for French His­tor­i­cal Stud­ies, Stan­ford Uni­ver­sity, March 2005. Orga­nized the panel “The Cul­ti­va­tion of Expertise.”

“Domes­tic Exper­tise: Lit­er­acy and Numer­acy in the Eighteenth-Century Kitchen,” West­ern Soci­ety for French His­tory, Texas Tech Uni­ver­sity, Octo­ber 2004. Win­ner of the Edward T. Gar­gan Prize.

“Con­struct­ing the Cook: The Pro­fes­sion­al­iza­tion of Taste in Eighteenth-Century France,” Work­shop on “Exper­tise in Pre– and Early Mod­ern Soci­eties,” Inter­na­tional Insti­tute, Uni­ver­sity of Michi­gan, Octo­ber 2001.

“Unimag­ined Empire: A French­man in India, 1755–1763,” Work­shop on “Empires, States, and Polit­i­cal Imag­i­na­tion,” Inter­na­tional Insti­tute, Uni­ver­sity of Michi­gan, April 2000.