Diderot; History of Science; History of Medicine; Intellectual History; Human Monstrosity in Eighteenth-Century Thought; Representations of Africa in Eighteenth-Century Thought
AWARDS WON:
Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine; National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship; Spring 2002 Center for the Humanities Fellow (Wesleyan University); Fall 2001, Fall 2008 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Assistant Professor (Union College); 1997-98) The Paris-American Club of New York Research Fellowship; 1995 Chateaubriand Fellowship; 1994