I am a historian of colonial empire, with a special focus on the French imperial system in the Mediterranean between World War One and World War Two. I earned a B.A./M.A. from Oxford University and an M.A./Ph.D. in History from NYU. I work on the discourse and politics of economic development in the French League of Nations Mandate in Syria and Lebanon, on the history of Fordism in the post-Ottoman Middle East, and on the global history of colonial commodities and natural resources. I have designed and taught numerous classes at Sciences-Po, Paris IV Sorbonne, and at NYU’s Paris campus, focused on French colonial history, modern France, World War Two, historical social theory and world history. I'm currently a Max Weber Fellow at the EUI in Florence.

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