ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Professor of History, College of Wooster (2019–present)
Chair, Department of French & Francophone Studies (2017–18)
Chair, Program in Global & International Studies (formerly International Relations), College of Wooster (2013–2015)
Chair, Department of History, College of Wooster (2010–2013)
Associate Professor of History, College of Wooster (2008–2019)
Assistant Professor of History, College of Wooster (2001–2008)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Michigan (Winter 2000)
Graduate Student Instructor, Great Books Program, University of Michigan (1997–9)
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in History, University of Michigan (2000)
M.A. in History, University of Michigan (1993)
B.A. in English & Philosophy, University of Michigan (1988)
Additional studies at the Maine Media Workshops (documentary film & video, 2011), the University of California at Berkeley (history, language, 1990–1991), the Instituto Lorenzo de’ Medici in Florence (Italian language & culture, 1988), and Harvard University (cognitive science, 1983–1985)
PUBLICATIONS
“The Unruly Emotions of the Execution Crowd and Its Critics in Late Nineteenth-Century France,” Cultural History 8:1 (April 2019) available online at Edinburgh University Press
“How to Make an Anarchist-Terrorist: An Essay on the Political Imaginary in Fin-de-Siècle France,” Journal of Social History (December 2010) available online at JSTOR
“The Flâneur, the Badaud, and the Making of a Mass Public in France, circa 1860-1910,” American Historical Review 109:1 (February 2004) available online at JSTOR
OTHER ARTICLES & PROJECTS
Conceived and directed the Wooster Digital History Project, online exhibit of local history (launched July 2013). Available online at woosterhistory.org
“The Myth of the Fourth Estate,” Lapham’s Quarterly Roundtable (April 2012) available online at Laphams Quarterly
“Chainsaw Michelangelo: The Life and Art of Ray Murphy,” Produced, Directed, Filmed, and Edited by Greg Shaya and Colin Kelley. Produced for the Four-Week Documentary Film School at the Maine Media Workshops (August 2011). Screenings include: Maine Media Workshops, Rockport, ME (August 5, 2011) and She Doesn’t Like Guthrie’s, Lewiston, ME (September 22, 2011) available online at YouTube
Curated online exhibit, “The Mass Public in France” (launched May 2005) as part of The Crowds Project, directed by Jeffrey T. Schnapp at Stanford Humanities Laboratory available online at Stanford Humanities Lab
ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS
“Empathy, Indifference and the Emotional Life of Modernity: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century France”
“In Search of the Origins of the Anti-Detective Novel”
FELLOWSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS
Investigador invitado, Departamento de Historia de la Ciencia, Instituto de Historia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid (January–June 2019)
Chercheur associé, Centre d’Histoire du XIXe siècle, Université Paris I—Panthéon-Sorbonne (December 2011–July 2012)
Visiting Scholar, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University of Michigan (Summer 2009)
External Faculty Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center (2004–2005)
Faculty Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University (2000–2001)
Georges Lurcy Fellow for Study in France, Georges Lurcy Trust (1994-5)
MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS
American Historical Association
Society for French Historical Studies
Western Society for French History
Urban History Association
International Society for Cultural History
Société pour l’histoire des médias
International Association for the History of Crime and Criminal Justice
Amis de l’Académie Tunisienne des Sciences, des Lettres, et des Arts “Beit al-Hikma”