I am a historian of 20th century France and contemporary  Europe and I focus on revolutionary politics, social movements, and states during the period of student and worker agitation after 1968. I am currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Sciences Po for the academic years 2022-2024 . Prior to that, I was a Visiting Assistant Professor of European History at Wake Forest University. I earned my doctorate from Columbia University in May 2020.

My book project, “Power is in the Streets”: Protest, Violence, and Police in Western Europe, 1968-1981, is an interdisciplinary study of protest and public order in France, West Germany, and Italy during the “1968 years.” The book tells the untold story of how decades of student rebellion, worker insubordination and social movements led Western European governments and experts to reconfigure how they pursued public order and to adapt public order policing to new forms of protest and public scrutiny. My article “Beyond the Matraque: State Violence and Its Representation during the Parisian 1968 Events” in The Journal of Modern History received the Council for European Studies First Article Prize in 2021. A second article is forthcoming from French Historical Studies.

My second research project, The Emergence of Autonomy: Political Radicalism after the New Left, 1977-1985, explores European radical politics after the crisis of the New Lefts through the case of the autonomist movement, a primarily urban movement that emerged in Italy in the Seventies and that resonated in a transnational network from its epicenters in Bologna, Milan and Rome to Frankfurt am Main, West Berlin, and Paris.  The project takes up the lens of urban history and study the autonomists from a transnational perspective. I am interested in the relationships between the autonomist movement and other New Social Movements like feminism and the ecological movement; terrorism and political violence; and the strategies and practices of governments in response to autonomist protest. This project has been funded for the years 2022-2024 through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Action, a grant from the European Commission.

My teaching interests encompass courses on the 1960s and 1970s; on French and French imperial history; and on the history of political violence, revolutions, and the state in modern Europe.

I  believe that historians should be engaged in discussions about pressing contemporary issues, and have contributed as a writer to La Vie des Idees, Le Monde, and Los Angeles Review of Books.

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