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Education Teaching Experience Presentations and Publications Honors and Awards
Languages Professional Service Research Experience Professional Affiliations
Education University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
PhD in History received July 2012
Dissertation Title: Transatlantic Science and Syphilis: Medicine and Public Health in New
York City and Buenos Aires, 1880-1940
Dissertation Committee:Dr. Lara Putnam (Chair), Dr.
Edward K. Muller, Dr. George Reid
Andrews, Dr.
Todd W. Reeser
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
MA in History received April 2008
Thesis Title: Let the Federal Men Raid : Bootlegging and Prohibition in Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
One-year exchange program (2005-2006)
Major: History
Davidson College, Davidson, NC
One-year exchange program (2003-2004)
Major: History
Universite Francois Rabelais, Tours (France)
Master 1, with Mention Bien (magna cum laude), received June 2005
Licence, with Mention Assez Bien (cum laude), received June 2004
Diplome d Etudes Universitaires Generales (DEUG), with Mention Assez Bien (cum laude),
received June 2003
Major: American and British Studies
Minor: Linguistics
Teaching Experience Teaching Fellow,
Presentations and Publications Atlantic Crisscrossings: Syphilis in New York and Buenos
Aires, 1870-1945, American Historical Association, Chicago, IL, January 2012.
Atlantic Crisscrossings: Syphilis in New York, Paris, and Buenos Aires, American
Association for the History of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, April 2011.
Globalization and Syphilis in Buenos Aires, Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American
Studies, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2011.
Syphilis and Sodomy in Argentina and the United States, Women's Studies Program Lecture
Series, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, February 23, 2011.
"'Let the Federal Men Raid': Bootlegging and Prohibition Enforcement in Pittsburgh,"
Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 77, no. 2 (Spring 2010): 166-92.
"The Lesson of Prohibition," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 3, 2008
Czars of their Wards : Bootlegging and Prohibition in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Historical Association, State College, PA, October 2007
Honors and Awards
Robert G. Crist Pennsylvania History Prize for the best article published by a graduate
student in Pennsylvania History during 2009-2010, October 2011
Hays Summer Research Grant, History Department, University of Pittsburgh, March 2009
and March 2011Bordin-Gillette Researcher Travel Fellowship, Bentley Historical Library, University of
Michigan, November 2010
International Studies Fund, University Center for International Studies, University of
Pittsburgh, April 2010
Summer Dissertation Research Award, European Union Center of Excellence/European
Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh, April 2010
World History Predoctoral Fellowship, History Department, University of Pittsburgh,
March 2010
Wood Institute Travel Grant, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, March 2010
Student Research Fund, Women's Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh, February 2010
Carolyn Chambers Memorial Fellowship, History Department, University of Pittsburgh,
September 2009
Student Research Fund, Women's Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh, June 2009
Clarke Chambers Travel Fellowship, Social Welfare History Archives, University of
Minnesota, May 2009
International Studies Fund, University Center for International Studies, University of
Pittsburgh, April 2009
A&S Summer Fellowship, History Department, University of Pittsburgh, March 2009
Graduate Student Field Research Grant, Center for Latin American Studies, University of
Pittsburgh, February 2009
Trans-Atlantic Summer Institute Fellowship, Center for German & European Studies,
University of Minnesota, June 2008
Summer Research Fellowship, History Department, University of Pittsburgh, April 2007
Languages French (native), English (near-native fluency), Spanish (intermediate)
Professional Service
TA Mentor, History Department, University of Pittsburgh (2009-10)
Graduate Student Member, Arts & Sciences Graduate Council, University of Pittsburgh
(2008-10)
Vice-President, History Graduate Student Organization, University of Pittsburgh (2008-
09)
History Department Representative, Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Organization,
University of Pittsburgh (2007-08)
Research Experience UNITED STATES
National Archives at College Park
National Archives at Philadelphia
National Library of Medicine
Historical Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Social Welfare History Archives, University of Minnesota
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
Rockefeller Archive Center
Columbia Center for Oral History
New York Academy of Medicine
Manuscripts and Archives Division of the New York Public Library
Medical Archives of The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
University Archives, University of Pittsburgh
ARGENTINA
Biblioteca Nacional de la Republica Argentina
Biblioteca de la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Buenos Aires
Biblioteca del Congreso de la Nacion
Biblioteca de la Academia Nacional de Medicina
Archivo General de la Nacion
Archivo Historico de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires
Biblioteca de la Legislatura de la Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires
Centro de Documentacion e Investigacion de la Cultura de Izquierdas en Argentina
FRANCE
Bibliotheque Inter-Universitaire de Medecine
Bibliotheque Henri Feulard
Archives de l Institut Pasteur
Archives Nationales
Academie Nationale de Medecine
Bibliotheque nationale de France
Centre des Archives diplomatiques de Nantes
Professional Affiliations American Historical Association
American Association for the History of Medicine
Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies
Conference on Latin American History
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